The global air conditioning market is set to recover from the overseas recession according to Global Industry Analysts.

Refrigeration technologies are one of the most energy intensive used in the food supply chain and pose a number of sustainability challenges.

In continuing difficult trading conditions, major contracting firm Hastie Group was amongst a handful of firms to announce a half yearly loss for the first half of the 2011-12 financial year.

Schneider Electric will no longer distribute Broad absorption chillers in Australia.

Standards Australia is currently reviewing AS:4254, which specifies the standards of fire and mechanical resilience performance for flexible ductwork for air-handling systems in buildings.

The Carbon Market Institute has launched a guide for business to understand and participate in Australia’s new compliance carbon market.

Three dead and hundreds of reefers grounded is the result of impure refrigerant appearing around the world.

Prior to the international climate negotiations in Durban last November, China threatened to release its bank of the hydrofluorocarbon R23

TAFE NSW’s Western Sydney Institute was named Australia’s leading educational institute for sustainability at the Australian Training Awards presentation late last year.

A new training test rig has opened in Tasmania for technicians and designers in the air conditioning and mechanical services industries.

CSIRO engineers have designed and commissioned an air conditioner test facility to evaluate the electrical, cooling and heating per- formance of conventional and solar-powered systems.

Recent fires in southwest Western Australia has raised cocerns for owners of evaporative air conditioners after the previous summers devastating fires.

The efficiency of fans is a central issue in ventilation and air conditioning technology.

Ziehl-Abegg Australia has invested in an assembly line at its headquarters in Derrimut, west of Melbourne.

Air conditioning industry suppliers continually understate performance claims according to the Australian Duct Manufacturer’s Alliance.