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Honeywell Tops Rankings in Institutional Investor's 2017 All
Dec 01, 2016 Institutional Investor recently published its annual All-America Executive Team Rankings for U.S. companies across 45 industry sectors. Honeywell ranked in the top-three out of 66 compani...
US confirms R134a chiller ban in 2024
December 1, 2016 USA: A number of common refrigerants, including R134a, R410A and R407C, will be banned from use in new chillers in the USA from January 1, 2024. The bans are one of a number of changes to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Significant New Alternatives Policy programme (SNAP) regulations, published today in the Federal Register. The gases affected are the higher GWP HF...
Watsco ups stake in US joint venture
Nov 30, 2016 USA: Watsco, the world’s largest air conditioning and refrigeration distributor, has acquired an additional $43m majority stake in a US joint venture with Carrier. Watsco has acqui...
Schweid & Sons to open state-of-the-art ground beef processi
Nov 30, 2016 The new 66,000-square-foot facility will utilize state-of-the-art equipment to produce high-quality fresh and frozen products. Schweid & Sons, Carlstadt, N.J., announced plans ...
New IAQ Technology Identifies Problems, Offers Solutions
Nov 30, 2016 EAST LANSING, Mich. - A team of engineers at Michigan State University is working to perfect a new technology that not only warns of a problem with indoor air, but also identifies the source of the IAQ problem and offers suggestions on how to remedy the situation. Mi Zhang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is heading up the team that developed the ...
The New Frontier in HVAC System Design
Nov 30, 2016 When I entered this industry, fortunes were being made in HVAC system design. Today, service companies give away their designs and mechanical engineering firms are trapped in the treadmil...
Price Hikes Announced: Daikin Applied, Ingersoll Rand, Johns
Nov 30, 2016 News of the following price increases have been reported to the HVACR industry at-large: Daikin Applied announced a 2 to 5 percent price increase on all applied and unitary commerc...
AHRI Announces New Officers, Presents Awards
November 30, 2016 Arlington, Va. - The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) held its Annual Meeting November 13-15 at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess in Scottsdale, Arizona, ...
ELICiT: A great success at ThermagVII
29/11/2016 The workshop was attended by 60 participants mainly from industry. The ELICiT project coordinator, Raffaele Paganini from Whirlpool R&D, opened the workshop by introducing the objective...
Dilapidated cold store could be demolished
November 29, 2016 USA: The dilapidated cold store which had over 4.4 tonnes of ammonia removed by the US EPA could be demolished. Acoording to the local Cumberland County News, Vineland City officials insist that they will enforce a “notice of unsafe structure” that could lead to the demolition of the troubled South Jersey Ice and Cold Storage building. Earlier this year, the US Envi...
UFAD Systems Offer Comfort, Flexibility, Energy Savings
Nov 29, 2016 Underfloor air-distribution (UFAD) systems have been used for comfort-conditioning office spaces in United States office buildings since the early 1990s. Systems were initially employed i...
ASHRAE Winter Meetings to Include Residential HVAC Topics
Nov 29, 2016 An in-depth look at ASHRAE’s work in the residential market as well as guidance on several aspects of residential design is offered in four free seminars at the 2017 AHR Expo. The 2017 ASHRAE Winter Conference takes place Jan. 28-Feb. 1 at Caesars Palace with the co-sponsored AHR Expo being held Jan. 30-Feb. 1 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. To register for the Conference, ...
