Educational institutions

Illegal refrigerant imports and sales activity in Europe can now be easily reported, and in confidence, through a new website established by the refrigerant producers group EFCTC.

The alternative refrigerants e-learning platform is now live in 15 languages and in nine separate learning modules.

Training providers and employers can benefit from two upcoming webinars on flammable refrigerants and CO₂.

The UK Environment Agency is said to be expanding its workforce to enable a better response to illegal sales of refrigerants and other F-gas compliance issues.

The UK’s Heat Pump Association (HPA) has become the first dedicated heat pump group to support World Refrigeration Day.

AIRAH strongly recommends that all refrigeration technicians be trained in the handling of flammable refrigerants.

In the latest episode of its special series, AGU’s [American Geophysical Union]Third Pod from the Sun features scientists whose work found the source of a hole in the sky.

Inefficient air conditioners (ACs) dumped into developing and developed countries overload energy resources, undermining national and local efforts to manage energy, environment, health, and climate goals, according to a new analysis published in the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum this week.

In margins of ASHRAE Winter Conference and in the presence of members of the ASHRAE Associate Societies Alliance (AASA) representing 60+ international refrigeration and air-conditioning engineering associations from all continents, ASHRAE and UNEP-OzonAction launched their sixth biennial joint workplan which covers 2019-2020 under the theme of “Refrigerant Management for Developing Economies”.

The “natural” refrigerant group Shecco is to host a webinar on how retailers can move towards zero net energy supermarkets.

German compressor manufacturer Bitzer has supplied equipment and tools in support of the fight against poverty and unemployment in Nigeria.

Over 50 papers have been submitted for the next CO₂ and Ammonia Refrigeration Technologies conference taking place in Ohrid, Macedonia, in April.

Ciat UK has established two new training centres and showrooms in Leatherhead and Stockport to update customers on its latest air movement and air conditioning technology.

Sustainable cooling experts and leading food federations have added their support for a World Refrigeration Day on June 26.

The recently reported resurgence in the banned CFC11 has contributed to record new highs of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

A new official report shows a continued decrease in the concentration of ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere and confirms a continued recovery of the ozone layer.

Emerson is taking its new mobile CO₂ Booster training unit to several locations across the US and Canada in 2019.

Students at South Australian training provider TAFE SA now have access to virtual reality headsets as a teaching aid to identify refrigeration safety risks and hazards.

“Keep cool and carry on” is the message from the UN Environment Programme as it celebrates World Ozone Day today (Sunday).

On Tuesday 25th September 2018 10:30 to 11:30 the IOR will hold a free webinar on refrigerant recovery, recycling and reuse.