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UK: Airedale has relaunched its HVAC training courses at its centre of excellence in Leeds. Having closed throughout the pandemic to prevent virus transmission, the training centre reopening means the full range of BESA Academy accredited courses, […]

IRELAND: Transport refrigeration company Thermo King has opened a new R&D centre adjacent to its factory in Galway, adding to the company’s electrification design and engineering capabilities in Europe.  The post Thermo King adds R&D […]

AUSTRALIA: Ron Conry, the inventor of the oil-less Turbocor compressor, has been awarded the Member of the Order of Australia medal for his contributions to HVAC. World recognised, awarded, and acclaimed inventor and innovator and a serial […]

JAPAN/BELGIUM: Daikin Industries has waived its rights to a further 120 R32 patents, including 30 jointly held with Daikin Europe relating to the manufacture and sale of VRF in Europe. The holder of a large number of patents governing the use of R32 […]

  Flowing nitrogen while brazing and pressurizing with nitrogen are great practices. Putting nitrogen in with the refrigerant? Not so much. Nitrogen is a “non-condensable” gas because it cannot be condensed (under normal conditions). However, […]

TAJIKISTAN: The Republic of Tajikistan has become the 136th country to ratify the Kigali Amendment and phase down HFC refrigerants. Agreed by all 197 parties to the Montreal Protocol in October 2016, the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol […]

Two HVAC technicians, James Lewis and Robert Shook, were among six people murdered in April 2021 by former NFL player Phillip Adams. The gunman came across the technicians outside a customer’s home in York County, S.C., shot them both, and then […]

USA: Daikin Applied Americas president and CEO Mike Schwartz has announced his intention to retire from his position at the end of August. Schwartz has been president and CEO since September 2011. When he joined, he was charged with transforming a […]