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AHRI Offers Homeowners Simple Springtime Air Conditioner and
April 8, 2014 Arlington, VA -- The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) today reminded homeowners that the spring season is the ideal time to prepare cooling equipment for the...
CPS Products Acquires UView Ultraviolet Systems
May 9, 2014 CPS Products Canada, Ltd., a Harbour Group company, reported on May 6 it had acquired the assets of UView Ultraviolet Systems, Inc. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, UView manufactures tools and equipment for professional automotive technicians. The company’s core markets are automotive fluid exchange and fuel service equipment and chemicals and automotive air conditioning refrigerant le...
New environmentally-friendly low-carbon air conditioner prod
04-14-2014 The Appliance World Expo (AWE) was held in Shanghai on 18th -21st March, 2014, during which the Green, Low-carbon Air Conditioner Exhibition jointly hosted by FECO and CHEAA was opened at t...
3M Introduces New Data Center Immersion Cooling Technology
May 8, 2014 ST. PAUL, Minn. -- 3M has announced the development of a fully functional supercomputer developed in collaboration with Intel and SGI that uses a new two-phase immersion cooling technology from 3M that reduces energy use while increasing supercomputer efficiency. In this proof-of-concept, SGIR ICE? X, a fifth generation distributed memory supercomputer, and the IntelR XeonR proc...
Mitsubishi Electric unveils new national apprenticeship sche
8 May 2014 Mitsubishi Electric is launching a national apprenticeship scheme to train air conditioning engineers of the future. The initiative is being run in conjunction with 24 of the company...
Cyber Security in the HVAC Building Controls Industry
8 May 2014 In March, Contracting Business.com published a column titled, "Cyber Security and the HVACR Contracting Community," that addressed the growing vunerability of commercial buildings to Internet-based attacks. The article focused on an attack on Target retail stores and their customer that apparently happened through an unwitting mechanical contracting firm whose wireless billing systems h...
Uponor takes to the road with BSS Industrial
7 May 2014 Uponor, has joined up with teamed up with commercial heating and pipeline distributor, BSS Industrial, for its 2014 summer road show. From 20 May to 2 July, Uponor will be visiting 15 BSS branch locations across the country. Starting in Chessington, the road show will visit further branches in London before travelling north via Bristol, Cambridgeshire, the Midlands, Yorkshire and Lanca...
WaterFurnace to Acquire Chillit Chilers
7 May 2014 WaterFurnace Renewable Energy, Inc. wants to be a manufacture that offers HVAC contractors a turn-key, do-it-all approach to comfort systems installations. It’s also a company that realizes...
Nortek completes acquisition of Thomas & Betts’ hvac busines
7 May 2014 Nortek has completed its acquisition of the hvac business of Thomas & Betts Corporation for approximately $260m on a cash and debt-free basis. Thomas & Betts is a wholly owned subsidiary of ABB and designs, manufactures and sells unit heaters, radiant heaters and rooftop heating, ventilation and cooling products for industrial and commercial applications primarily in Nort...
Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Demand in the US to Reach
6 May 2014 Cleveland -- Demand for commercial refrigeration equipment in the United States is forecast to increase 3.1 percent per year through 2018 to $10.7 billion, according to a new study from The Freedonia Group Inc., a Cleveland-based industry market research firm. Advances will be driven by an improving capital investment climate and expected growth in the foodservice and food retail sector...
New Program Awards RSES Members Scoring Highest on CM/CMS Ex
6 May 2014 Rolling Meadows, Ill. -- RSES and TruTech Tools Ltd. have announced a new awards program to encourage RSES members to pursue additional education and training in HVACR by earning the RSES Certificate Member (CM) and Certificate Member Specialist (CMS) designations. A newly created TruTech Scholar Award will be presented quarterly to the RSES member who earns the highest score on ...
Star Refrigeration Group announces new US subsidiary
6 May 2014 Star Refrigeration Group has launched a new US subsidiary, Azane Inc, based in San Francisco. It will act as the regional headquarters serving the North American industrial refrigera...
