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Organized by the UN Environment (UNEP), ASHRAE, the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), with the kind support of the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand and the Department of Industrial Works, the Sustainable Management of Refrigeration Technologies in Marine and Off-Shore Fisheries Sectors Conference takes place April 6-8, 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand.

The coalition wrote to the government early this week in advance of a UK climate plan.

Super X24, a Mexican retailer with more than 100 convenience stores across Veracruz, plans to convert all of them to lower GWP refrigerant R449A.

The ammonia training facility is hosting a year-around trade show for vendors and contractors for marketing and training purposes.

R290 kills two birds with one stone for the OEM – DOE efficiency requirements and EPA delisting of HFCs.

The company is seeking to provide sustainable cold chain solutions across the food production cycle, from harvest to distribution.

Supermarket owners and operators across Europe are getting to grips with the implications of new EU Regulations on so-called F-Gases (No. 517/2014), which include common refrigerants used in store refrigeration and air conditioning systems. We offer an overview of the regulations and what supermarkets should be doing to safeguard their businesses, provided by leading compressor manufacturer Bitzer.

Climaveneta heat pump chillers using low GWP, HFO refrigerant R1234ze are to reclaim waste heat from a data centre for one of Finland’s largest district heating networks.

Retailers are beginning to offer hydrocarbon-cooled pick-up stations for food purchased online.

Several manufacturers at German trade show ISH displayed efficient systems using the natural refrigerant propane (R290).

Kaplanlar Cooling is entering the natural-refrigerant market with its ‘CORE’ transcritical CO₂ solution.

Austrian company AHT already has over one million propane-based food and beverage retail cabinets in operation worldwide.

Michael Nagler, business development manager for CO₂ applications at GEA, believes that new regulation in Germany will drive the market.

Alessandro Franchin, export area manager at SCM Frigo, reports growing demand in southern European markets as CO₂ refrigeration technology develops.

R514A, the low GWP refrigerant replacement for R123, has been added to Bacharach’s library of detectable gases.

Whatever the climate, the CO₂OLtechEvoTM offers substantial energy savings for supermarkets, warehouses and process cooling.

Retrofitting the cooling system at grocery delivery service Verscentrum Nederland’s (VCN) facility led to huge energy savings in winter.

Carrier’s latest transcritical CO₂ refrigeration system – CO₂OLtech Evo – features the newly developed adjustable modulating vapour ejector technology.

SANDEN Environmental Solutions is integrating CO₂ refrigeration units into cabinets built by Hauser, Arneg and TEKO.

Italian multinational CAREL believes natural refrigerants will continue to play a central role in making the European food retail sector more sustainable.