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Carrier’s air conditioning and refrigeration technologies are sharing centre stage at the new UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings in Florida, opened today.

France has become the latest country to ratify the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFC refrigerants.

Leading UK refrigerant distributor Climalife has urged air conditioning customers to move rapidly to R32 to avoid major price increases and supply problems with R410A.

Blackpool-based Green Cooling is now the exclusive UK & Ireland partner/distributor for a range of hydrocarbon water/glycol chillers.

Japan’s association of air conditioning and refrigeration manufacturers has added its voice to calls for the EU to remove barriers to the use of low GWP flammable refrigerants.

Frick Industrial Refrigeration has continued the rollout of its low-charge ammonia central system (LCCS) at a second location, a cold-storage facility in Canada, said Joseph Pillis, director, global industrial refrigeration technology for Frick’s parent, Johnson Controls, Waynesboro, Pa.

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, are developing a renewable energy approach for synthesising ammonia.

sheccoBase launched the survey to help gather information for the ‘World Guide to Low Charge Ammonia’. This first worldwide guide on low-charge ammonia technology aims to provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges for this technology.

The Food Storage and Distribution Federation is urging companies with cold storage sites who haven’t yet joined a Climate Change Agreement (CCA) scheme to do so quickly, as the last window of opportunity for applications ends in July 2018, and won’t reopen again until the end of the current scheme in 2023.

Engie Refrigeration’s Quantum R134a chillers can now also be used with lower GWP refrigerant R513A, the company has announced.

Munters has launched a new energy efficient data centre dry cooling solution using indirect thermosyphon technology.

Compressor manufacturer Dorin has released an update of its selection software.

Bitzer has announced details of a new high efficiency scroll compressor for air conditioning and heat pump applications.

The IoR has released a new Good Practice Guide to refrigerant weight scale calibration, which is free to download for a limited period.

Carrier’s new AquaForce 30XB and 30XBP chillers update its well-established 30XA range with the latest technologies and increased efficiencies.

The intent of this normative appendix is to establish definitive test procedures for determining the quality of new, reclaimed and/or repackaged refrigerants for use in new and existing equipment within the scope of AHRI.

A French wholesale fruit distributor is using Honeywell’s “mildly flammable” A2L refrigerant Solstice L40X in a new state-of-the-art storage warehouse.

Leading refrigerant manufacturer Chemours has acquired ICOR International, a privately-owned US supplier of branded refrigerants.

Panasonic is set to follow up the European launch of a 2hp CO₂ refrigeration condensing unit last year with a 10hp unit in medium and low temperature versions.

A “natural” refrigerants support group has launched a petition calling for a faster revision of codes and standards to allow for greater use of low-GWP refrigerants in commercial refrigeration.