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Blackpool-based Green Cooling has signed an exclusive agreement with Italian food service equipment manufacturer Iglu.

Green Cooling recently provided a 2kW Panasonic CO₂ condensing unit for a walk-in freezer at an M&S Simply Food franchise within an NHS hospital.

Bitzer UK has supplied its 300th CO₂-based refrigeration compressor for installation in Aldi UK’s Stores.

The alternative refrigerants e-learning platform is now live in 15 languages and in nine separate learning modules.

Training providers and employers can benefit from two upcoming webinars on flammable refrigerants and CO₂.

The new refrigeration system shows that there are energy efficient and climate friendly refrigeration alternatives to HFCs in hot countries like Jordan.

Over 900 technical presentations will be presented at the forthcoming IIR International Congress of Refrigeration in Montreal.

Over 50 papers have been submitted for the next CO₂ and Ammonia Refrigeration Technologies conference taking place in Ohrid, Macedonia, in April.

Bacharach’s new MGS-400 gas detectors monitors for leaks of numerous refrigerants including HFCs, HFOs, HCFCs, CO₂, and NH₃.

Emerson is taking its new mobile CO₂ Booster training unit to several locations across the US and Canada in 2019.

The huge price increases in HFC refrigerants appear to have ended, at least in the short term, with some refrigerants even dropping in price.

A Cornish beachside boutique hotel is one of the first non-retail businesses to adopt smaller-scale CO₂ refrigeration for its food cold storage.

As an extension of the study published in 2014, AFCE publishes here the final report of this independent study launched end of 2017 entitled energy efficiency of possible alternatives . The study has been carried out by experts from EREIE – CEMAFROID and CITEPA.

Bitzer has announced the development of a subcooling unit capable of boosting the efficiency of both new and retrofit transcritical CO₂ systems in warm climates.

Güntner, the German manufacturer of heat transfer technologies, will showcase its wide range of natural refrigerant products at Chillventa, the world’s biggest HVAC&R show, from 16-18 October 2018 at Nuremberg Messe, Germany.

Energy savings, innovative technologies for warm-ambient countries and heat recovery will help to grow the market for natural refrigerants in Spain, according to participants in the 2018 edition of Tecnofrío, Spain’s leading HVAC&R congress.

Keen to trial new technologies as it searches for the most effective means of meeting its sustainability targets, Swiss retailer Migros is installing propane-based water-loop HVAC&R systems in small supermarkets.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week that it had given a $3-million grant to develop a low-cost, long-duration electrical energy storage system that uses a CO₂ heat pump.

At the 2018 International Motor Show (IAA) in Hannover, Germany (20-27 September 2018), Eberspaecher Suetrak is showcasing its CO₂ mobile air conditioning (MAC) system for buses.

Casa Ley, a major food retailer in Northwest Mexico that operates 246 stores, has formed some fruitful relationships with businesses in the U.S.