News Headlines
11th September 2025
Worker dies in refrigerant plant leak
INDIA: One person died and 12 were reportedly hospitalised on Wednesday (10 September) after a leak in a pipeline at the Gujarat Fluorochemicals refrigerant plant in Ranjitnagar, India.
10th September 2025
Leak testing with oxygen caused heat pump blast
POLAND: Authorities in Opole have concluded that the heat pump explosion in Chrząstowice that killed two people last year was caused by using oxygen to carry out pressure tests.
7th September 2025
200 jobs to go in Daikin heat pump restructure
GERMANY: Daikin is to transfer hydrobox and hydrokit heat pump unit production from its plant in Güglingen, Germany, to the Czech Republic, with the loss of some 200 jobs.
11th September 2025
Worker dies in refrigerant plant leak
INDIA: One person died and 12 were reportedly hospitalised on Wednesday (10 September) after a leak in a pipeline at the Gujarat Fluorochemicals refrigerant plant in Ranjitnagar, India.
11th September 2025
Smardt Chillers in Indian data centre deal
CANADA/INDIA: Montreal-based Smardt Chillers is to supply its oil-free centrifugal chillers to Indian company Shree Refrigerations, a leading player in cooling solutions serving the defence sector.
10th September 2025
Trane sounds the NYSE opening bell
USA: Trane Technologies has rung the New York Stock Exchange opening bell to celebrate its fifth year as an HVACR-focused company.
11th September 2025
CTC partners with The Merchant’s Choice group
UK: Go Geothermal, the UK distributor of CTC heat pumps, has announced a partnership with The Merchant’s Choice, a specialist buying group for plumbers’ merchants.
10th September 2025
Improving service across London and the SE
UK: Wolseley brands Pipe Centre and Climate Centre have unveiled a new logistics model to improve customer service across London and the SE.
9th September 2025
Samsung signs up service company HomeServe
UK: Samsung Climate Solutions has announced a partnership with UK service and maintenance company, HomeServe, to grow its existing heat pump service and repair network.
12th September 2025
Haier R32 VRF for the European market
ITALY: Haier HVAC Solutions Europe has announced a new R32 VRF system specifically tailored for the European market.
10th September 2025
Sanhua adds new sight glasses
SPAIN: Sanhua has introduced a new range of sight glasses engineered for high-pressure refrigerants.
8th September 2025
Scalable data centre liquid cooling solution
UK: Johnson Controls has expanded its data centre thermal management offerings with the launch of the Silent-Aire coolant distribution unit (CDU) platform.
21st August 2025
Cooling is out of reach for over 1 billion people
AUSTRIA: People at high risk due to inadequate access to cooling for thermal comfort, food preservation, and medical products is projected to rise to 1.05 billion by 2030.
20th August 2025
Heat-transfer fluid boosts cold store efficiency
IRELAND: A heat-transfer fluid employing sub-micron particles of aluminium oxide is said to have achieved a 13% reduction in chiller energy consumption at a pharmaceutical cold storage facility in Malaysia.
5th August 2025
Waste data centre heat supplies Geneva DH system
SWITZERLAND: Two Trane heat pumps, with a total capacity of 3.2MW, are upgrading waste heat from a data centre to supply hot water a district heating network in Geneva.
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 September 2025
ASHRAE conference 2026 call for abstracts
USA: ASHRAE has opened the call for abstracts for its 2026 Annual Conference, which will take place from June 27 to July 1, 2026, in Austin, Texas.
2nd September 2025
UK minister to address HPA conference
UK: The Minister for Energy Consumers, Miatta Fahnbulleh, will give a keynote address at the Heat Pump Association’s (HPA) first conference in November.
27th August 2025
BESA training supports heat network regime
UK: The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched the first official training course supporting the UK government’s Heat Network Technical Assurance Scheme (HNTAS).