News Headlines
29th October 2026
Carrier reports record $8.5bn order backlog
USA: Carrier has reported a record backlog of $8.5bn, with commercial HVAC orders up around 60% and data centres up approximately 300%.
27th October 2026
Italian police seize 42.8 tonnes of illegal HFCs
ITALY: Authorities in Italy have arrested seven people and seized 42.8 tonnes of illegal HFC refrigerant in an operation in Castellaneta, near the southern Italian port of Taranto.
25th October 2026
Committee backs delinking gas and electricity prices
UK: The UK government should move all remaining energy transition policy costs from electricity costs onto the price of gas on energy bills, advises a new select committee report.
29th October 2026
Canadian firm fined CA$25,000 for illegal R134a import
CANADA: An automotive service company in Alberta, has been fined CA$25,000 (US$17,900) for attempting to import over 0.5 tonnes of R134a in violation of Canadian regulations.
29th October 2026
€100m boost for retail refrigeration EaaS project
NORWAY: Swiss investment and asset management firm White Summit Capital is to invest up to €100m in Aneo Retail, alongside Danfoss, to scale energy-as-a-service for European food retailers.
29th October 2026
Carrier reports record $8.5bn order backlog
USA: Carrier has reported a record backlog of $8.5bn, with commercial HVAC orders up around 60% and data centres up approximately 300%.
29th October 2026
Rapid Energy establishes Scottish depot
UK: Redditich-based rapid response temperature control hire solutions company Rapid Energy has opened a Scottish depot in Dumbarton.
29th October 2026
Budget erodes confidence in the heat pump sector
UK: The UK’s leading heat pump association has accused yesterday’s budget of further eroding confidence in the heat pump sector.
28th October 2026
Star offers advanced pipe bending service
UK: Star Refrigeration is making its advanced pipe bending capability available to manufacturers across the UK, following the installation of an AMOB CNC tube bender.
24th October 2026
Clivet rooftops using R454C
ITALY: Clivet has introduced a new generation of rooftop air-conditioning units using the lower GWP A2L refrigerant R454C.
21st October 2026
Stainless steel industrial hand valves
USA: Parker Hannifin has introduced a new range of stainless-steel hand valves for industrial refrigeration systems in North American and Latin American markets.
20th October 2026
ADAPTIX designed to boost CO2 system efficiency
ITALY: Rivacold has developed ADAPTIX, a patented technology designed to improve CO2 transcritical refrigeration systems throughout the year.
23rd October 2026
Court installation judges R290 chillers
UK: Panasonic has supplied six 80kW ECOi-W Aqua-G Blue R290 chillers as part of a major cooling infrastructure upgrade at Leeds Magistrates Court.
19th October 2026
Wiesbaden supermarket is all CO2
GERMANY: A recently reopened supermarket in Wiesbaden claims to be the first to use CO2 refrigerant in all its commercial refrigeration, heating and air conditioning.
17th October 2026
Caverion stands out at Dusseldorf exhibition site
GERMANY: Caverion is to install the ventilation, refrigeration, plumbing, and compressed air systems for the renovation and expansion of Hall 9 at the Düsseldorf exhibition centre.
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.
7th October 2026
Guide to good practice in HP pipework insulation
UK: The Heat Pump Association UK has published a new guide to insulating the external hydraulic pipework of domestic monobloc air-to-water heat pumps.
29th September 2026
Global Heat Forum will tackle extreme heat
THAILAND: An inaugural forum in Bangkok next month brings together over 400 leading scientists, city leaders, philanthropies and health experts to scale solutions and unlock finance for extreme heat action.
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.