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400,000-ton Cold Storage in Northeast China Put into Operati
BGX City cold storage project in Shenyang, Liaoning, was put into operation. BGX Logistics Development Group started to build the 400,000- ton cold storage project in 2002 which claimed to be the largest one in Northeast China, covering cold storage, freshness preservation storage, and quick-freezing storage, to address various demands on storage. This project was completed in August, 2013,...
Air Purifier Alliance Established
China Household Air Purifier Standard and Technology Alliance was established in Beijing on June 25. This is the first alliance in China’s residential air purifier industry, which is centering on stan...
Sakura Launches New Gas Heaters/Boilers
Recently, Sakura has launched a new series of gas heaters/boilers. The series consists of condensing type, balanced type, forced exhaust type, natural exhaust type, wall-mounted gas boiler, central ho...
Electric Temperaturecontrolled Urban Delivery
Muses, a French company specialized in the design and manufacturing of electric urban delivery vehicles, has launched Mooville Froid, a refrigerated vehicle designed for the delivery of perishable and...
UTC Building & Industrial Systems to Acquire CIAT
UTC Building & Industrial Systems has entered into exclusive negotiations and made a binding offer to acquire privately-owned Compagnie Industrielle d’Applications Thermiques (CIAT), a French HVAC company. Execution of a binding agreement is subject to consultation of the CIAT works council and the subsequent completion of the transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. Up...
Use CO2 to Cool Refrigerators
20 August 2014 Tomorrow’s commercial refrigeration systems, such as those in supermarkets, could be cooled by carbon dioxide instead of hydrofluorocarbons. Hydrofluorocarbons are a greenhouse gas that is nearly 4,000 times more potent than CO2 and a future with less of them could be important because millions of pounds of HFCs leak into the environment every year, said Brian Fricke, a researcher ...
Eco Energy World connects 70MW of Solar PV to UK grid
20 August 2014 Eco Energy World has experienced a summer surge in energy production after connecting five solar PV projects with a combined output of 70MW. The renewable energy developer’s solar projects, situated in Essex, Devon and Wiltshire, all began operating in the past few weeks. The solar PV projects range in size from 9MW to 15MW and will generate enough clean energy to powe...
70% more efficiency in point-of-sale freezers: Unilever’s gr
18 August 2014 Unilever, owner of a number of recognised ice cream brands and well known for its contributions to the fight against climate change, announced earlier this month that its scientists hav...
QR Code Tracking Software Introduced for HVAC, Other Service
18 August 2014 VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Westrom Software has announced the launch of new QR code equipment tracking software for service businesses, including HVAC, that is QuickBooks compatible, easy to install, and simple to use, said the company. The software allows a business to affix a weatherproof QR code to equipment and products, which allows the service company to geo-reference the loca...
Alfa Laval wins SEK 80 million energy-efficiency order in Ca
14 August 2014 Alfa Laval -- a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling - has won an order to supply compact heat exchangers to an oil production facility in Canada. Th...
