News Headlines
27th September 2026
Sam Jones wins WorldSkills gold
CHINA: Sam Jones of the United Kingdom has won the gold medal in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026.
25th September 2026
DESNZ publishes UK space cooling report
UK: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published its report into the UK space cooling market as a first step in its commitment to the Global Cooling Pledge.
21st September 2026
Scientists claim elastocaloric cooling breakthrough
HONG KONG: Scientists claim to have developed what is said to be the world’s first zero-degradation elastocaloric cooling device.
27th September 2026
Sam Jones wins WorldSkills gold
CHINA: Sam Jones of the United Kingdom has won the gold medal in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026.
26th September 2026
LG 2.6MW CDU is NVIDIA approved
SOUTH KOREA: LG Electronics has qualified its 2.6MW coolant distribution unit as NVIDIA DSX Ready, meeting the applicable reference design requirements for AI factory infrastructure.
25th September 2026
Organiser promises bumper Chillventa 2026
GERMANY: Next month’s Chillventa exhibition in Nuremberg is set to be the largest and most comprehensive ever, with over 1,100 exhibitors and a wide-ranging programme of talks and seminars.
25th September 2026
DESNZ publishes UK space cooling report
UK: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published its report into the UK space cooling market as a first step in its commitment to the Global Cooling Pledge.
24th September 2026
Three nominated for IOR board
UK: IOR members Rob Lamb of Star Refrigeration, Denise O’Connor of Lightfoot Defence and Sam Parris of WAVE have been nominated for two vacancies on the Institute’s board of trustees.
23rd September 2026
Enva invests £9.5m in UK fridge recycling
UK: Waste management company Enva has announced a £9.5m investment in its UK fridge recycling business that will increase its overall treatment capacity to more than 2.3 million appliances.
26th September 2026
Digital refrigerant management app
UK: A-Gas is to launch a new digital refrigerant management platform to help its customers manage waste, compliance and cylinder activity all in one place.
22nd September 2026
AK-GC52 controller helps optimise CO2 systems
DENMARK: Danfoss has developed the AK-GC52 CO2, a new solution designed to optimise gas cooler and receiver pressure control in both transcritical and subcritical CO2 applications.
20th September 2026
Wolseley own-brand side stream filtration range
UK: Wolseley Pipe Centre has launched its own-brand JET Quad side-stream filtration range to improve water quality and help protect commercial cooling and heating systems.
25th September 2026
Carter Synergy CO2 system at Granarolo cold store
UK: Carter Synergy designed and installed the bespoke CO2 refrigeration system at the new Granarolo distribution centre in Willenhall.
23rd September 2026
Heat pumps on track with waste heat recovery project
ITALY: A waste heat recovery project in Turin, employing Trane heat pumps, is demonstrating how district heating operators can unlock more value from existing cogeneration assets.
19th September 2026
Aquarea R290 heat pumps support senior living
GERMANY: Six Panasonic Aquarea Big M R290 air-to-water heat pumps are supplying 89 accessible apartments with heating and hot water at an old people’s residence in Leipzig.
3rd May 2026
Skills gap: the answer’s already on the van
Will Overton, director of Vectis Refrigeration and founder of the Wisdom Group FM, argues that the skills gap in refrigeration and HVAC is not a training problem: it is a knowledge capture problem.
14th December 2025
When glycol loops go bad
David McKune, corporate account manager of Ecolab EU, a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, discusses the hidden risks of ignoring coolant health in AI-era data centres.
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.
27th September 2026
ASHRAE seeks abstracts for New Orleans conference
USA: ASHRAE is accepting abstracts for conference papers for its annual conference in New Orleans in June.
12th September 2026
Haier takes to the road
UK: Haier HVAC Solutions goes on the road this month, with a fully-kitted product trailer taking its latest heating and cooling solutions to installers across the UK.
2nd September 2026
Gustav Lorentzen Conference to return to UK
UK: The UK will once again host the Gustav Lorentzen Conference, the international forum for “natural” refrigerant research and development, in 2028.