Cocaine, cigarettes and R22 refrigerant were amongst a haul of illegal items caught up in a large-scale operation targeting counterfeit goods by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). While Operation Renegade was primarily targeted at the international trade in counterfeit auto spare parts, an additional 400,000 counterfeit goods, including chewing gum,...
Read more
Report from the 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference At last, it happened! The 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference took place in Rotterdam in May, very successfully! This issue of the HPT Magazine - Report from the 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference - summarises some of the numerous sessions, workshops, award...
Read more
Order now You can now order all Conference Proceedings (Full Papers) from the 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference in Rotterdam. Price: 300 € The Conference Proceedings (Full Papers) will be delivered on a USB flash drive (USB memory stick) after your payment is done. Link to the ordering form
Read more
Australia: The Australian government has successfully passed legislation to phase-down HFCs beginning next year and reaching an 85 % reduction by 2036. The phase-down of HFC imports under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Amendment Bill 2017, passed on June 19, is in advance of the global phase...
Read more
The Energy Technology Perspectives 2017 (ETP 2017) was released on June 6 in Beijing, China, during the Clean Energy Ministerial 8 (CEM8). For the first time, ETP 2017 looks at how far clean energy technologies could move the energy sector towards higher climate change ambitions if technological innovations were pushed...
Read more
The price of fluorspar, a mineral from which the HFC component hydrofluoric acid is produced, has hit a four-year high in the home of the world’s largest producer, China. Huge increases in the price of a vital component in the production of HFCs could place further pressure on global refrigerant...
Read more
Tesco, one of the world's largest supermarket chains, will convert more than 1 200 UK stores from R-404A to a low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant. Over the next three years, the companies will replace R-404A with the HFO R-448A, which has a GWP of 1 273, making it the...
Read more
The seventh China Heat Pump Exhibition, held in March in Shanghai at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center, attracted over 300 corporations from all over the country, and covered a vast range of heat pumps. The heating efficiency of airsource heat pumps decreases during freezing weather in North China....
Read more