MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries is the latest company to add its name to the list of headline sponsors for this year's ACR News Awards. The influential Japanese air conditioning manufacturer joins Dean & Wood, GEA, Hawco, Lawton Tubes and Space Airconditioning in sponsoring the industry's leading awards event.

LEADING food retailers will reveal their latest plans for reducing the environmental impact of stores at the forthcoming Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Show 2012, which takes place in Hall 19 at the NEC from 13 to 15 March.

POWRMATIC, an Ilminster company best known for its heating and ventilating products, is to enter the UK air conditioning market with a range of Midea commercial air conditioning products.

AN ISOBUTANE refrigerant leak in a domestic fridge-freezer is thought to have been the cause of an explosion which rocked a house in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on Monday morning. Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident which occurred just after 7am but the elderly resident was left in shock.

WITH just a month before doors open, leading users of cooling equipment across the UK are registering to attend the forthcoming Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Show, which takes place at the NEC, 13-15 March 2012.

A $1.56m project has been launched to detect and prevent illegal cross border trade of ozone depleting substances, other harmful chemicals and hazardous waste in 25 countries of the Asia Pacific region.

NEXT to Denmark, where HFCs are banned, the UK is leading the way in the adoption of CO2 transcritical refrigeration systems in European supermarkets. According to natural refrigerants group Shecco, the UK currently has 267 supermarkets running transcritical CO2 systems, behind Denmark's 424, but way ahead of Germany (166), Switzerland (149) and Norway (134).

AIR conditioning manufacturer Eaton Williams has been fined after a man's fingertip was cut off by a circular saw at the company's Colman Moducel factory in Stoke-on-Trent.

THE trade in counterfeit refrigerants is a growing problem and affects every region of the world, according to DuPont, the refrigerant manufacturer urging members of the air conditioning and refrigeration industry to increase their awareness of and action against counterfeit refrigerant activity.

THE US AHR Expo show continues to grow. The latest event in Chicago from January 23-25 attracted nearly 40,000 visitors. Based on preliminary registration numbers, the 2012 Show will easily surpass the previous record of 38,534 visitors at the 2008 Show in New York City.