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14th October 2025
Turbocor inventor behind energy saving AC development
AUSTRALIA: Ron Conry, original inventor of the ground-breaking oil-free Turbocor compressor, is behind a new company promising a new air conditioning technology, which could halve energy bills.
14th October 2025
EPA proposals would disrupt US market
USA: The manufacturers’ association, AHRI, has warned that EPA proposals to roll back refrigerant phase-out dates would disrupt US manufacturers’ planning and re-open the market to outdated, high-GWP equipment.
10th October 2025
EU heat pump strategy faces serious barriers
BELGIUM: EPEE has warned that the continued deployment of heat pumps faces serious barriers, due to electricity-to-gas price ratios, insufficient grid investment, and a lack of coherence across legislative frameworks.
16th October 2025
Lennox completes Duro Dyne and Supco brand purchase
USA: Lennox has completed the purchase of the HVAC Division of NSI Industries, including the Duro Dyne and Supco brand platforms.
15th October 2025
Panasonic glory at PRO Awards
CZECH REPUBLIC: German projects took the major glory at this week’s Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions PRO Awards to recognise Panasonic’s most outstanding European HVACR projects.
15th October 2025
AIT opens €3m heat pump test lab
AUSTRIA: The Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) has officially opened what it claims is the country’s most modern heat pump laboratory.
16th October 2025
Getting around to saving local pubs
UK: Wholesaler Hawco and refrigeration manufacturer Marstair have raised £1000 for Plunkett UK, a charity that helps communities to own and run pubs, shops and other local businesses.
15th October 2025
HPA UK is name of merged heat pump groups
UK: Further details have been revealed about the structure of HPA UK, the new unified trade body formed by the merger of the three main UK heat pump associations.
14th October 2025
Williams certifies embodied carbon calculations
UK: Williams Refrigeration has published embodied carbon calculations for all its core products with CIBSE TM65 certification.
16th October 2025
Power converter will electrify diesel reefers
FRANCE: Carrier Transicold is to unveil a power solution that transforms high-voltage direct current from a tractor’s battery into the alternating current needed to operate a refrigeration unit.
10th October 2025
BAC upgrades immersion cooling tank
USA: Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC) has release enhanced versions of its immersion cooling tank designed for high-performance data centres.
8th October 2025
Atlas Copco attacks process cooling market
UK: Atlas Copco is breaking into the mainstream industrial process chiller market with the expansion of its TCS series of air-cooled machines.
12th October 2025
450kg of HFC recovered from rooftop VRFs in just five hours
UK: A-Gas has successfully recovered 450kg of HFCs from 22 Daikin VRV rooftop units in just five hours.
6th October 2025
Carrier FCUs help transform former gas works
UK: Carrier has supplied more than 1,000 Comfort Line fan coil units to Regent’s View, a landmark East London residential regeneration of the former Bethnal Green Gas Works.
30th September 2025
Engie supplies 100MW of cooling for data centres
GERMANY: Engie Refrigeration has received two major orders totalling nearly 100MW of cooling capacity for data centre operators in Asia and Europe.
31st August 2025
Cooling at an AI crossroads
Piergiorgio Tagliapietra, senior director of application engineering thermal management EMEA at critical infrastructure technologies company Vertiv, looks at how AI workloads are reshaping data centre cooling requirements.
25th June 2025
A call to innovate, not compromise
To mark World Refrigeration Day, Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO of Beko, Europe’s leading home appliance brand, writes of HVACR’s pivotal role in the global energy and climate transition.
11th June 2025
Heat networks should go beyond just heating
In light of the current UK rollout of heat network zones, Neil Parry, Alfa Laval’s global head of district energy, has highlighted the necessity for district cooling, and how this can create a national district energy infrastructure.
8th October 2025
Samsung opens training centre in Chertsey
UK: Samsung Climate Solutions is aiming to train around 1,000 installers over the next 12 months at its newest training facility in Chertsey, Surrey.
8th October 2025
Large refrigeration presence at Euroshop 2026
GERMANY: Refrigeration technology will have a large presence at next year’s retail EuroShop exhibition in Düsseldorf from 22 to 26 February next year.
15th September 2025
Lawton Tubes opens training studio
UK: A new training studio to help inspire the next generation of air conditioning engineers, plumbers, and medical gas technicians has been announced by copper tube supplier Lawton Tubes.