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United Technologies looks to build cooling portfolio with fi
28 July 2014 Carrier Corporation’s parent company aims to drive synergies with bid for French HVAC specialist United Technologies Corporation is bidding to acquire a 46.1 per cent stake in 256 million Euro turnover French HVAC specialist CIAT Group, a move which would see increased synergies with UTC subsidiary Carrier Corporation. The bid for the equity, owned by diverse French...
Toshiba Conducts Demonstration Experiment at Smart City Proj
Toshiba is taking part in the summer season demand response (DR) demonstration experiment for buildings starting July 1 as part of the Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP). Participating in the YSCP are...
NREL Wins R&D 100 Award for Supercomputer Using Warm-Water C
Jul. 28, 2014 GOLDEN, Colo. -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced that it has won an R&D 100 award, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), for its HP Apollo Platform for High-Performance Computing. This innovative system uses component-level warm-water cooling to dissipate heat generated by the supercomputer, thus eliminating ...
Younger Consumers Leading Adoption of Smart Home Products
Jul. 28, 2014 DALLAS -- New research from Parks Associates shows young consumers, those with children, and those in a home for three to four years are leading the adoption of Internet-connected smart home energy management devices. The firm’s Home Energy Management Adopters study reveals more than 10 percent of U.S. broadband households headed by a consumer aged 25-34 own at least one smart home e...
Toshiba and Cool Designs attempt world record for charity
28 July 2014 General manager of Toshiba Air Conditioning, David Dunn, has teamed up with Cool Designs and other distributors, Dysk and GT Phelan and AMP, for a world record attempt to play five footba...
Join the FRISBEE Demonstration Day
30/07/2014 For the official closing of the Food Refrigeration Innovations for Safety, consumers’ Benefit, Environmental impact and Energy optimisation along the cold chain in Europe project (FRISBEE), the consortium will hold a “FRISBEE Demonstration Day” at IRSTEA, the head office of project leaders, in Paris, France on August 29, 2014. On this occasion, project outcomes will be disseminat...
Emerson Publishes Low GWP Test Results
The calorimeter tests were carried out as part of the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) Low Global Warming Potential Alternative Refrigerants Evaluation Programme (Low-GWP A...
Yantai Moon Refrigeration Enjoys Steady Growth
Yantai Moon is a leading manufacturer of refrigeration equipment in Chinese domestic market. Its compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of net profits came to 47.5% for the past five years. Benefitted fro...
State Council Approves Mid- and Long-term Plan for Logistics
On June 11, the board conference of the State Council has approved the mid- and long-term plan for logistics industry. Logistics industry is integrating transportation, storage, and information, and t...
Join the FRISBEE Demonstration Day
30/07/2014 For the official closing of the Food Refrigeration Innovations for Safety, consumers’ Benefit, Environmental impact and Energy optimisation along the cold chain in Europe project (FRISBEE), the consortium will hold a “FRISBEE Demonstration Day” at IRSTEA, the head office of project leaders, in Paris, France on August 29, 2014. On this occasion, project outcomes will be disseminat...
AmbiRad names new product manager for Europe
24 July 2014 AmbiRad has appointed Steve Walford as product manager for engineered products, Europe. He will be responsible for developing a range of cooling products across all of the brands ...
Bitzer to build new corporate HQ
23 July 2014 Bitzer has announced that it is building new corporate headquarters in Sindelfingen, Germany, close to its current head office. In order that the design of the new corporate headqu...
