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New Food Safety Law to Stimulate Refrigerated Car Market
New version draft of Food Safety Law was approved on April 24, which will be enforced on October 1, 2015. The revised version requires stringent full-process control over food safety, from production,...
AMCA International and CETIAT Sign Accredited Laboratory Agr
The Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International and Centre Technique des Industries Aerauliques et Thermiques (CETIAT) have entered into an independent accredited laboratory agreement. The signing ceremony took place during Fan 2015, an international conference on fan noise, technology, and numerical methods held in Lyon, France. CETIAT can now perform pre-certification tests,...
Fibracem Data Center Racks
Fibracem, a Brazilian company that specializes in optical communications, has developed racks for data centers that have passages for electric cables, cabling, and optical cables to minimize cooled air from the high-floor air conditioning escaping. The racks also have independent upper troughs, which allow the passage of optical cables and unshielded twist pair (UTP) cables. Connecting the racks i...
DuPont Performs Retrofit in Jundia Sorvetes
Jundia Sorvetes, an ice cream manufacturer based in Itupeva, Sao Paulo, performed a retrofit of one cold chamber and two compressors integrated into the production processes of its plant in Jundiai. T...
IAQ and the Paranormal
Research at Clarkson University (New York) has identified certain types of mold spore aerosols in buildings as a possible cause of hallucinations which may account for the popular notion of ghosts. Such spores are relatively common where there are problems with damp but most particularly in ancient buildings and in buildings where poor ventilation reduces air quality. Some of these spores are effe...
Haier to Scale Up Operations at Pune Plant
Chinese appliance giant Haier has announced plans to invest Rs 3.7 billion (about US$ 58 million) in its plant in Pune, western India, to scale up refrigerator manufacturing and commence production of air conditioners, deep freezers, washing machines, LED television panels, and water heaters. Presently the 162,000-m2 plant has a production capacity of 1 million refrigerators per year. ...
JCI May Separate Automotive Business to Focus on HVAC&R Busi
According to the Wall Street Journal on June 10, Johnson Controls (JCI), the world’s largest supplier of automobile seats, which accounts for two-fifths of its annual revenue and brought in about US$ ...
Global Renewable Energy Capacity Grows 8.5% in 2014
Jul 16, 2015 The 2014 tally included record installations for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and wind power PARIS - Global generation capacity for solar, wind, and other renewable energy technologies grew 8.5 percent in 2014 over the year before, according to the 10th annual edition of REN21’s Renewables 2015 Global Status Report. About 135 gigawatts (GW) of added renewable power increased...
Infrared Thermography Market in Building Inspection Worth $5
July 15, 2015 DALLAS - The global infrared thermography market in building inspection is expected to reach $53.2 million by 2020, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2 percent between 2015 and 2020, according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets. Infrared thermography is a technology which has been designed to help save energy by using infrared the...
Honeywell to Improve Operations for Liquefied Natural Gas Pi
July 15, 2015 Honeywell technology will help improve operations for China’s long-distance Guangxi Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) high-pressure pipeline. A key strategic project of Sinopec Limited and Gua...
Lab explosion due to domestic fridge
12 July 2015 USA: A fridge explosion at Michigan State University (MSU) may have been due to the use of a domestic fridge in a laboratory environment. Emergency services attended MSU on Friday after an explosion in a laboratory in the University’s Giltner Hall. Part of the building was evacuated following the incident and, fortunately, the laboratory was empty at the time and no one was inj...
