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Exports Drive White Goods Production in Poland
White goods production rose 25% between 2013 and 2016 in Poland, from over 18 million to around 23 million units, according to a report by research firm TNS prepared for the industry association CECED Polska. The total value of white goods including washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, and freezers, manufactured in 2015 stood at PLN 17 billion (US$ 4.2 billion). Adam Cich, CECED Po...
Whirlpool to Set Up R&D Center in Wroclaw, Poland
Whirlpool is locating its new Global Technology Research Center in Wroclaw, Poland. The center will focus on refrigeration and dishwashing technologies. Its employees will design and produce refrigerator-freezer and dishwasher units under Whirl-pool’s portfolio of brands, and the technologies developed in Wroclaw will be rolled out on a global scale. Poland is a key country within the frame...
Food logistics drives electric truck development
February 21, 2017 Vienna, Austria: MAN Truck & Bus is providing test vehicles for 15 of the largest logistics companies in the Austrian Council for Sustainable Logistics. The council plans to increase the use of electric trucks for inner-city and suburban distribution as a means of reducing emissions in cities. Initially MAN and the council will test 12 and 26 tonne trucks....
Wolseley and Walter Meier in Swiss merger
21 FEB 2017 SWITZERLAND: Wolseley has signed an agreement to merge Tobler, its Swiss plumbing and heating business, with Swiss HVAC distributor Walter Meier AG. The proposed merger is subject ...
CABA Research Helps Define IoT as a Conceptual Framework
Feb. 21, 2017 - The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) reported today that it has completed its "Intelligent Buildings and the Impact of the Internet of Things" research project. The study was a major initiative of the CABA Research Program, which offers a range of opt-in technical and advisory research services designed to provide industry stakeholders with collaborative research...
Johnson Controls publishes call to action for building owner
Whitepaper: Cybersmart Buildings - Securing Your Investment in Connectivity and Automation MILWAUKEE, Feb. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- As data becomes more and more prevalent throughout the buildings whe...
Rack-supported freezer gives fast-growing bakery room to ris
19/02/2017 Vieira’s Bakery, a bakery from New-Jersey producing European-style bread, needed more frozen storage capacity to store its products. Moreover, adding freezer capacity was essential before i...
Clean Energy Institute unveils testbeds for clean energy tec
February 20, 2017 The Clean Energy Institute (CEI), a research unit at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, Wash., created the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds to increase the rate at which bre...
CoolKit to launch box body reefer
February 20, 2017 “A combination of new materials, forward-looking design methods and leading-edge technologies has enabled CoolKit to create a lightweight box body refrigerated vehicle offering...
Swegon combines air filtration brands
20 February 2017 Swegon Air Management (SAM) is combining its two filtration brands, Trion and Envirco, to form a single air filtration business called Airfiltrera. Trion provides electrostatic filters for commercial buildings including shopping centres, hotels, restaurants and manufacturing facilities. Envirco designed and manufactured the world’s first commercial clean room more th...
