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The latest refrigerated display cabinet from Polish manufacturer JBG-2 has achieved a listing on the UK’s Energy Technology List as the lowest energy multi-deck in its class.

The AHR Expo is now accepting entries for the 2019 Innovation Awards Competition. This annual competition honors the most inventive and original products, systems and technologies showcased at each year’s AHR Expo. Exhibitors are encouraged to submit new or upgraded products by July 31, 2018.

Green Thermal Energy has launched a range of CO₂ packaged chillers with capacities from 30kW to 450kW.

Refrigeration wholesaler FSW is now offering a one-day CO₂ training course to support its recently introduced Profroid QuietCO2OL CO₂ packaged condensing unit.

Carrier’s new AquaForce Vision 30KAV chiller, with its facility to use low GWP refrigerant R1234ze, has been hailed as a “huge step” in the drive to phase down HFCs.

The South African government is putting in place legislation to regulate HFCs, heard participants in ATMOsphere Network Frigair 2018, held on Thursday (8 June) at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg as part of Frigair 2018 – Africa’s only dedicated HVAC&R tradeshow.

The commitment of major end users and manufacturers of HVAC&R technologies to rolling out natural refrigerants will herald a bright future for these environmentally friendly alternatives to HFCs in South Africa, attendees will hear at today’s ATMOsphere Network event in Johannesburg.

Survey of 1002 HVAC and plumbing representatives in Europe concludes that there is a “long way to go until” until wide-scale understanding of Building Information Modelling is realised.

Around 40 refrigeration and air conditioning apprentices will compete in the regional rounds of the 2018 SkillFridge competition, which begin next week.

Signaling the continued advancement of natural refrigerant technology by end users in Japan, leading Japanese refrigerated warehouse company and food sales company Yokohama Reito Co. Ltd. (Yokohama Reito) has installed and commissioned CO₂ condensing units and NH₃/CO₂ cascade systems at its newest facility in Tokyo.

In both technical and non-technical literature, fluorine-containing (HFC) refrigerants are increasingly referred to as ‘chemical’ or ‘synthetic’ refrigerants in contrast to the so-called ‘natural’ refrigerants. Generally ‘chemical’ is now seen by some as being ‘bad’ and is contrasted with ‘natural’, which implies ‘good’.

HFC prices increased from below 2€/tCO2e to 23€/tCO2e, or more than 1,050%, according to study by Öko-Recherche on behalf of European Commission.

Daikin Applied is the first to offer a chiller with R32 refrigerant with the launch of its new EWAT-B series.

The Caribbean island of Grenada, the 37th country to ratify the Kigali Amendment, is to implement an air conditioning project using propane refrigerant.

The EC is looking to increase funding under its LIFE environment and climate action programme to €5.45bn.

Initial results show that energy savings of 33% have been achieved by the new Trane CenTraVac chillers using the HFO 1233zd(E) to cool the Channel Tunnel link between the UK and France.

Dedicated to the use of R32 in air conditioning, Daikin Industries is now the first to introduce an air-cooled heat pump chiller using the lower GWP refrigerant.

This year the IOR is bringing to the UK the first ever IIR International Conference analysing real-life applications of HFO refrigerants HFOs are being marketed as the environmental solution to growing restrictions on the use of high GWP HFCs, but what will their future?

Agreement is intended to improve European availability of refrigerant for use in new and retrofit systems as market looks for lower GWP solutions.

With the pressure on R410A increasing, Mitsubishi Electric has introduced an R32 version of its City Multi Hybrid VRF.