News Headlines
5th November 2025
UK opens F-gas phase-down consultation
UK: The government’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), has opened its consultation portal seeking views on its proposals to amend the F-gas phasedown schedule in Great Britain.
5th November 2025
Daikin acquires direct-to-chip cooling company
USA: Daikin Applied Americas has acquired Chilldyne, a California-based manufacturer of negative pressure liquid cooling systems for high-performance and AI data centres.
1st November 2025
Fines totalling over £400K for F-gas quota violations
UK: The Environment Agency has issued fines totalling over £400,000 for breaches of the F-gas refrigerant regulations.
6th November 2025
Syclef expands into the Netherlands
FRANCE/NETHERLANDS: French industrial and commercial refrigeration contractor Syclef has expanded in the Netherlands with the acquisition of Rotterdam-based industrial refrigeration and HVAC engineering company Geerlofs.
5th November 2025
Daikin acquires direct-to-chip cooling company
USA: Daikin Applied Americas has acquired Chilldyne, a California-based manufacturer of negative pressure liquid cooling systems for high-performance and AI data centres.
4th November 2025
Seeking heat pump solutions for food and drink industry
BELGIUM: A newly launched EU-funded project aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of Europe’s food and drink industry by developing standardised heat pump solutions.
5th November 2025
EIA urges further measures on F-gas phase down
UK: The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has welcomed UK government plans to speed up the F-gas phase-down but urges further measures to protect the planet.
5th November 2025
UK opens F-gas phase-down consultation
UK: The government’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), has opened its consultation portal seeking views on its proposals to amend the F-gas phasedown schedule in Great Britain.
4th November 2025
MCS the sole certification scheme despite industry concerns
UK: The government is to make the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) the sole certification scheme for the CHHM and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS).
6th November 2025
CoolCenter expands liquid cooling portfolio
UK: The addition of the new CoolCenter Immersion cooling system expands the Vertiv's liquid cooling portfolio to support AI and high-performance computing environments
5th November 2025
Carrier boosts 30XF data centre chiller efficiency
FRANCE: Carrier unveiled its enhanced AquaForce 30XF chiller featuring its new FreeBoost technology at this week’s Data Centre World in Paris.
4th November 2025
Carrier launches coolant distribution unit
USA: The new Carrier coolant distribution unit is now available as part of Carrier’s growing QuantumLeap portfolio of purpose-built data centre solutions.
4th November 2025
Sunswap cracks zero-emission egg delivery
UK: Happy Eggs, the UK's responsibly-sourced egg brand, has begun rolling out the first of 40 Sunswap Endurance zero-emission transport refrigeration units.
22nd October 2025
Heat pumps judged quiet and efficient
UK: Panasonic air-source heat pumps have replaced two outdated and inefficient chillers providing air conditioning to a 200-year-old court building in East London.
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.
2nd November 2025
Who really owns the S&M data?
Digital job systems and client portals have transformed service and maintenance efficiency, but they have also blurred the line between compliance reporting and intellectual property.
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.
5th November 2025
Webinar on naturals’ role in sustainable cooling
GERMANY: The German-government-supported agency GIZ Proklima is hosting a webinar on “green” heating and cooling on November 26.
29th October 2025
Lord Haughey to open Beijer Ref training academy
UK: Lord William Haughey, chair of City Facilities Management, is to officially open Beijer Ref's third training academy, in Glasgow, on 6 November.
20th October 2025
ASHRAE reveals 2026 Winter Conference schedule
USA: ASHRAE has published its full technical programme for its 2026 Winter Conference in Las Vegas.