BUSINESS Edge is the latest acr company to become corporate supporters of the Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust (GGIFT), the group fighting to save the historic building and its 80-year-old refrigeration equipment.

ELCO Holdings has sold its Airwell air conditioning business in Asia to Singapore’s Hong Leong Asia Ltd for £8.2m.

WALTER Meier has acquired the US portable evaporative cooling unit company Port-A-Cool.

BRISTOL-based A-Gas, one of the largest independent refrigerant gases, environmental services, speciality gases and chemicals providers, has completed the acquisition of an Australian based refrigerant re-packer, Technochem for an undisclosed sum.

HONEYWELL has released further details of the case, first reported by ACR News on January 1, of the Chinese man convicted for selling counterfeit refrigerant.

MOSTRA Convegno Expocomfort, the plumbing, sanitaryware and domestic, commercial and industrial hvacr show in Milan at the end of March, attracted over 155,000 visitors, according to figures released by the show organisers.

HONEYWELL in the USA has begun destroying its inventories of certain CFCs and CFC blends and selling the resulting emission reduction credits for use in California’s greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programme.

EMERSON has acquired the Marine Container and Boiler business of Johnson Controls, enabling Emerson Climate Technologies to expand its refrigeration technology and solutions offerings in the global transportation sector.

GRAEME Maidment has today (Friday, March 30) been voted in as president elect of the Institute of Refrigeration.

THE safety of construction sites in the UK is improving – but only slightly, according to the HSE.