CUSTOMS officers in Germany have intercepted a shipment of CFC-containing waste refrigerators bound for Africa in a crackdown on the illegal trade by European authorities.
EMBRACO North America Inc has been fined £925,000 by a Canadian court after pleading guilty to criminal charges that it fixed the price of hermetic refrigeration compressors sold to a Candian domestic refrigerator and freezer manufacturer.
DAIKIN UK has now revealed its new dealers to be Freedom Air Conditioning, Gallant Air Conditioning, ICG Air Conditioning, Ultimate Air Conditioning and Smiths Brothers Stores. Effective from November 1, the new dealers will be actively promoting and s…
DAIKIN UK has confirmed rumours that it has signed a series of new “dealerships”. In a short statement made late this afternoon, Daikin UK announced that it had increased the routes to market for its cooling, ventilating and refrigeration products but …
THE latest edition of Bitzer’s Refrigerant Report is now available for download from the company’s website.
THE Faversham House Group, publishers of ACR News, announce the launch of the ACR Show 2012, a new dedicated exhibition for the air conditioning and refrigeration industry to take place at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, in March 2012.
AREA, the European contractors’ association, is calling for changes to the F-gas regulations to require all non-monobloc air conditioning and refrigeration systems to be installed by a certified professional. It also wants to see the F-gas threshold lo…
LINEAR technology could become the pre-dominant energy-efficient refrigeration compressor design in the future, according to Brazilian manufacturer Embraco. The company, which last month announced the launch of an oil-less linear compressor for domesti…
BRISTOL-based refrigerant distributor IDS Climalife has been appointed as a distributor of the well-known range of air conditioning controls from Italian manufacturer Carel.
JUST when it looked like so-called natural refrigerants were to be the long-term answer in many applications, two of the world’s leading chemical companies have revealed details of a potential new range of low GWP blends. These are based on the technol…