1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (139+ words) Cooling Post US AC and heat pump shipments up 20.1% USA: US shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps totalled 916,830 units in July, down 10.43% on the previous month, but an increase of 20.1% on July 2025. Shipments of air conditioners were…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (161+ words) Cooling Post Cooling towers suspected in Spanish LD outbreak SPAIN: Investigations are centred on local cooling towers following a legionnaires’ disease outbreak which has infected 31 people in the Pamplona/Iruña region. The water supply controls and the characteristics of the…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (268+ words) GERMANY: Viessmann is to debut its new TectoCore range of refrigeration units at next month’s Chillventa show in Nuremberg. The WMx5, a wall-mounted refrigeration unit from this new range, employs a new design of condensers with a significantly lower internal volume....

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (228+ words) UK: Heat Pump Association UK has announced a new reciprocal membership partnership with Heat Network Scotland. The partners say that the reciprocal membership will enable them to work together to share expertise, strengthen industry engagement and inform policy development needed…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (238+ words) ITALY: Clivet’s new VRF CVT9 series of VRF heat pumps, using R32, are available in capacities from 25.2kW to 45kW. These Eurovent-certified units feature an EVI inverter scroll compressor and enlarged surface 310° heat exchanger, enabling them to achieve SCOPs up to 4.9 and SEERs up…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (295+ words) SOUTH KOREA: The National Fire Agency, Korea’s central fire administrative agency, has blamed a series of recent air conditioner fires on illegal mixed refrigerants containing dangerous R40 (methyl chloride). A total of 36 fires are suspected to have been caused by air…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (224+ words) GERMANY/JAPAN: Researchers in Germany and Japan have developed a new approach to solid-state cooling that uses heat instead of electricity. A prototype developed by teams from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Tsukuba in Japan…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (298+ words) USA: Building owners in New York City must now certify that their cooling towers have been inspected, tested, cleaned, and disinfected in compliance with new legislation. The move follows a number of legionnaires’ disease outbreaks that have hit the city…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (369+ words) UK: AFR Refrigeration, one of the UK’s longest established refrigeration wholesalers, has launched a new e-commerce website as the latest development in a wider modernisation of the business. The new website enables online ordering of equipment from a huge range…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (225+ words) USA: Solstice has announced that it is to terminate by mutual agreement its proposed $14.5bn acquisition of specialty chemical manufacturer and supplier Element Solutions. Announced last month, the proposed acquisition was rejected by the shareholders of both companies, who favoured keeping…...