Europe
GEA to receive three awards during Anuga 2015
Dusseldorf, March 23, 2015 -- During this year’s edition of Anuga FoodTec, the leading global trade fair of the food and beverage industry, GEA will receive no less than three awards for groundbreakin...
Frigesco makes it a ‘cooling industry awards’ hat trick
Mar 23, 2015 UK: Frigesco’s pioneering flash defrost system has won the ‘cooling industry triple’, securing the top refrigeration accolade in all three of the industry’s major national technology awar...
CIBSE publishes new edition of environmental design guide
23 March 2015 Now its eighth edition, CIBSE Guide A: Environmental Design continues to exist as the authoritative reference source for designers and installers of building services, particularly low energy and environmentally sustainable buildings. The publication focuses on the individual aspect of environmental design such as criteria for design (e.g. comfort criteria, weather data) as we...
￡155m loan facilities for private residential housing solar
23 March 2015 Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS) has provided three individual financing facilities to private residential housing and commercial solar PV operator, A Shade Greener (ASG). The total funding amounted to ￡155m in total and was used to refinance free solar portfolios of feed-in tariff solar panels. The facilities were advanced as part of a framew...
Islington Council to plan new consultation over communal hea
23 March 2015 A five-month heating shut-off experienced by thousands of council tenants and leaseholders could be a thing of the past following a Finsbury pensioner’s petition, the Islington Gazette has reported. Resident Jo White collected 277 signatures against the council’s policy of turning off central heating for five months of the year. Ms White, 65, collected signatures of 277...
Hamworthy Heating launches new website
20 March 2015 Commercial heating and hot water specialist Hamworthy Heating has launched a new website giving improved access to technical product information. Julie Shaw, marketing manag...
Viessmann increases turnover by four per cent
20 March 2015 The Viessmann Group, the heating, cooling and air-conditioning technology specialist, generated a turnover of around 2.2 billion euros in 2014. That equates to a 4 per cent increase over...
SenerTec supports sustainable energy showcase
20 March 2015 SenerTec has been raising awareness of the benefits of combined heat and power (CHP), by supporting a sustainable energy showcase in Solihull attended by the Secretary of State for Energ...
Coca Cola to narrowly miss HFC-free global refrigeration tar
20 March 2015 Soft drinks giant will miss its target, set in 2009 for including natural refrigerants in all new equipment globally by 4 per cent. Coca Cola will narrowly fail to reach its ambit...
NAPIT stresses importance of Amendment 3
20 March 2015 NAPIT delivered a seminar on Amendment 3 to the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations to engineers from Kier Services and Sheffield City Council on 12 March. As part of NAPIT’s ongoing efforts to educate electrical installers on the changes to the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations, the seminar provided both organisations with all the required knowledge on Amendment 3. “We feel ...
UK chooses smart heating over smart watches
20 March 2015 Research by YouGov has revealed that almost a quarter (24%) of UK adults would be interested in buying a smart heating system, while more than one in five (22%) would be interested in bu...
Ziehl-Abegg Boosted by Exports: Sales Rise by 9% in 2014
Ziehl-Abegg’s global sales increased by 9% to 423 million Euro(US$ 480 million) in 2014, enabling the company to press further ahead with investments of more than 20 million Euro(US$ 23 million) in th...
