HVAC

Bitzer has become the first compressor manufacturer to approve a full range of new low GWP refrigerants.

Following hot on the heels of Bitzer, Emerson has announced the approval of new low GWP refrigerants R448A and R449A in its Discus and Copeland Scroll compressors.

UK: In a poll of 1,000 homeowners just 1% identified heat pumps as a renewable heat technology.

Contractors say there is a scarcity of qualified engineers but only just over half carry out technical competence tests as part of their recruitment process.

EPEE has welcomed the European Commission’s plans for a resilient Energy Union and its focus on cooling applications in buildings.

The EU’s REAL Alternatives learning programme for engineers working with low GWP alternative refrigerants will launch on March 19 with a free webinar.

UK HVAC installers boasted the largest growth in turnover and had one of the best filled order books in Europe last year.

Johnson Controls is planning to tap into knowledge gained from the chemical industry to develop more efficient commercial HVAC control systems.

Carrier’s parent company United Technologies (UTC) has been awarded a $744,154 contract to explore new high performance non-metallic materials for the manufacture of heat exchangers.

Daikin says its acquisition of Solvay’s European refrigerants business will boost sales to €230m by 2018.The deal reported to be worth around €22m gives the Japanese company, best known in the West as an air conditioning manufacturer, its first refrigerant manufacturing base in Europe.

A petition calling for a ban on the use of “dangerous substance” R1234yf in vehicle air conditioning systems has been rejected by the European parliament.