News Headlines
17th October 2025
Euro heat pump sales show slight increase
BELGIUM: The European heat pump market is showing a slight yet uneven recovery this year, according to new statistics from the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).
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proposals to roll back refrigerant phase-out dates would disrupt US manufacturers’ planning and re-open the market to outdated, high-GWP equipment.
17th October 2025
Central African Republic approves Kigali
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: The latest country to officially approve the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFCs is the Central African Republic.
17th October 2025
Euro heat pump sales show slight increase
BELGIUM: The European heat pump market is showing a slight yet uneven recovery this year, according to new statistics from the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).
17th October 2025
New Daikin controller wins design award
JAPAN: A new AC controller, set for European release, is one of three Daikin products to have received 2025 Good Design Awards from the Japan Institute of Design Promotion.
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.
17th October 2025
U-3ARC to host first international conference
BURKINA FASO: U-3ARC, the African refrigeration and air conditioning association, is holding its first International Conference for the Popularisation of Refrigeration in Africa in Ouagadougou next month.
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.
18th September 2025
Tickets now available for IOR dinner
UK: Tickets are now available for the annual Institute of Refrigeration dinner, which returns to the Hilton London Bankside hotel on 12 February 2026.