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RAC Cooling Industry Awards: Deadline Extended to June 3rd

21 May 2013 | RAC

The RAC Cooling Industry Awards deadline has been extended to June 3rd, providing a little under two weeks’ grace to allow companies the chance to get recognised in the industry’s most respected and sought...

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Kiruna Declaration: On the Occasion of the Eighth Mi...

21 May 2013 | Report / Study | Published: 2013

Kiruna Declaration, published by the Arctic Council on 15 April 2013, calls for action to be taken “as soon as possible” to phase down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol and to reduce black carbon and meth...

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DX Ammonia Piping Handbook

21 May 2013 | Standard | Published: 2013

Colmac Coil's Ammonia Piping Handbook serves as a guide for the design and implementation of DX Ammonia from +10°C to -45.5°C (+50°F to -50°F).

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Astronauts Complete Spacewalk to Repair Ammonia Leak

17 May 2013 | NASA

Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn completed a spacewalk at 2:14 p.m. EDT Saturday to inspect and replace a pump controller box on the International Space Station’s far port truss (P6...

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IIR Ohrid Conference 2013 - “Making Ammonia Systems...

14 May 2013

At the 5th edition of the Ammonia Refrigeration Technology conference organised in Ohrid, Macedonia from 9 - 11 May 2013, Dr Andy Pearson, Group Engineering Director of Star Refrigeration argued that refrigeration saf...

Ice factory featured on Prince's Regeneration Trust website

10 May 2013 | ACR News

UK: Fresh from being featured on the BBC tv programme Coast, the Grimsby Ice factory and the fight to save it is now featured on the website for the Prince's Regeneration Trust (PRT).

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Eurammon symposium in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on 28^t^hJun...

Conference | 27 Jun. 2013 - 28 Jun. 2013 | Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Switzerland

The European initiative for natural refrigerants will hold the eurammon symposium in Schaffhausen, Switzerland to provide interested parties with information on how natural refrigerants can be used sustainab...

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New Zealand consults on Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Levy level

8 May 2013

Consultation process in New Zealand has started on the proposed regulation for the Synthetic Greenhouse Gases (SGG) levy. With the transitional period for SGG levy starting on 1 July 2013, the aim of this consultation...

ABC Food Machinery

8 May 2013 | System manufacturer , Industrial refrigeration

Based in Slovakia, ABC Food Machinery is a manufacturer of heating and cooling technologies, specialising on projects for sports facilities and industrial refrigeration. The company works predominantly (90%) with natu...

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First-ever ATMOsphere Asia 2013

6 May 2013

ATMOsphere Asia 2013 is making its debut in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, from 17-19 September 2013. Registration is now open for HVAC&R industry experts, interested in natural refrigerant solutions and opportuniti...

H.Seabra

6 May 2013 | System manufacturer , Industrial refrigeration

H.Seabra specialises in industrial refrigeration and develops solutions in every agro-food chain segments, as Meat, Fish, Logistic, Food Distribution, Ice, Beverages, Chemical/Pharmaceutical, Dairy and Fruit &...

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ATMOsphere Asia 2013 – Technology & Innovation

Conference | 17 Sep. 2013 - 19 Sep. 2013 | Tokyo, Japan

Having always been a pioneering advocate in the field of natural refrigerants, Japan is the ideal location for the first-ever ATMOsphere Asia Conference. This conference aims to support the uptake of leading...

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Japan: Decision on Partial Revision of the Act on f-gases

3 May 2013 | Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

On April 19, 2013, the Cabinet decided to approve the Bill for the Act for Partial Revision of the Act on Ensuring the Implementation of Recovery and Destruction of Fluorocarbons concerning Designated Products. In res...

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Mayekawa NH3 heat pump uses lake water to heat Swiss hotel

2 May 2013

80% of the heat for the Badrutt Palace Hotel, situated in the heart of the Engadin of the Swiss Alps, is produced by a Mayekawa heat exchange system which uses water from Lake St. Moritz. The system was installed when...

IACSC and IARW publish new guide to effective warehouse d...

2 May 2013 | Fresh Plaza

The International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) and the International Association for Cold Storage Construction (IACSC) recently published the Guide to Effective Warehouse Design, Maintenance, and Mode...

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At 'Feneberg' in Kempten (Germany) - the only thing missi...

30 April 2013 | SSP Kälteplaner

After three months assembly time the new refrigeration plant at Feneberg in Kempten (Germany) was taken into operation on schedule at the beginning of March. The special challenge with this project was, to take the ex...

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First natural gas-free greenhouse in Netherlands

30 April 2013

GEA Refrigeration has installed a high efficiency ammonia heat pump in the first greenhouse, which runs entirely without natural gas. The tropical orchid greenhouse provided a special challenge, as half of the buildin...

Saudi Energy 2013

Trade Fair | 26 May. 2013 - 29 May. 2013 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The 16th edition of Saudi Energy - the International Trade Exhibition for Electricity, Power Generation, Alternative Energy, Water Technology, Lighting & HVAC for Saudi Arabia - will be held under the high p...

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Witman to Leave the EPA’s GreenChill Partnership

29 April 2013 | Supermarket news

WASHINGTON- Keilly Witman, who is largely responsible for creating and managing the Environmental Protection Agency’s five-year-old GreenChill Partnership aimed at reducing refrigerant emissions in supermarkets,...

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