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Contractors say there is a scarcity of qualified engineers but only just over half carry out technical competence tests as part of their recruitment process.

The United Nations Environment Programme, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, the United States of America, and the Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy are pleased to announce the Advancing Ozone & Climate Protection Technologies: Food Cold Chain to be held July 18, 2015.

EPEE has welcomed the European Commission’s plans for a resilient Energy Union and its focus on cooling applications in buildings.

A submarine power cable is set to link Norwegian hydroelectric plants and German wind farms starting in 2020. A powerhouse for Europe, Norwegian hydropower plays an important role in the renewable energy revolution.

The EU’s REAL Alternatives learning programme for engineers working with low GWP alternative refrigerants will launch on March 19 with a free webinar.

UK HVAC installers boasted the largest growth in turnover and had one of the best filled order books in Europe last year.

Johnson Controls is planning to tap into knowledge gained from the chemical industry to develop more efficient commercial HVAC control systems.

Swedish retailer ICA Gruppen has achieved the 30% CO₂ reduction target it set in 2006, six years ahead of schedule.

At the upcoming meeting in April Russia will propose ministers of Natural Resources of the BRICS countries to create a platform of public-private partnership for the implementation of “green technologies”, through the Development Bank, according to the materials of the Ministry of Natural Resources available to the RIA Novosti news agency.

Carrier’s parent company United Technologies (UTC) has been awarded a $744,154 contract to explore new high performance non-metallic materials for the manufacture of heat exchangers.

Daikin says its acquisition of Solvay’s European refrigerants business will boost sales to €230m by 2018.The deal reported to be worth around €22m gives the Japanese company, best known in the West as an air conditioning manufacturer, its first refrigerant manufacturing base in Europe.

Five managers of waste sites have been given prison terms of up to four years and 200 more could face court for incorrectly disposing of refrigerators.

Honeywell has today officially launched four new lower GWP refrigerants for applications ranging from supermarket refrigeration to industrial cooling.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is to crack down on refrigeration facilities that are failing to implement procedures to prevent the release of ammonia.

Emerson says it has retrofitted a glass door reach-in cabinet that far exceeds proposed new US energy efficiency standards for commercial refrigeration equipment.

Multinational inspection, product testing and certification company Intertek has invested more than $20m in support of the refrigeration industry in North America.

Customs officers intercepted or prevented the worldwide trade in over 1300 tonnes of ozone depleting refrigerants over an 18-month period to April 2014.

Retailers have called on the cooling supply chain for solutions to help them meet a triple challenge of tight margins; smaller store footprints and new refrigerant choices.

A prototype wine cooler using magneto caloric technology is being presented at a consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.

A leading maritime equipment supplier has warned that the shipping industry is ill-prepared for the new F-gas regulations.