The 2024 edition of the ASHRAE Winter Conference and the AHR Expo, in Chicago, were opportunities to meet HVACR industry stakeholders and exclusively gather feedback on ASHRAE Standard 241, and perspectives on the industry’s response to the Global Cooling Pledge, one of the key outcomes of the recently concluded COP28, in the UAE. Climate Control Middle East reporting from the ground in Chicago on whether the industry represents hope in addressing the need for aggressive climate action and for better IAQ or not…

Posted: February 16, 2024

Co-organised with ISKID, the event will take place from October 25 to 28 in Antalya, Turkey

Posted: July 19, 2022

Awareness in handling flammable refrigerants is the need of the hour, says ACCA representative

Posted: August 14, 2018

US brands seem to be on a relentless drive in pursuit of sustainability

Posted: September 27, 2017

Senior company official talks to B Surendar, Editor, Climate Control Middle East, of a new refrigerant that is an improvement on R410a

Posted: April 4, 2017

New refrigerants looks promising, however, the flammability factor is a concern, says Ashraf Abdalla, Vice President and General Manager (Middle East and Africa) of Johnson Controls,

Posted: March 29, 2017

Steve Yurek, President of AHRI, says that since there will be many changes in the equipment, more time is required to impart training for safe operation

Posted: March 20, 2017

The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), in collaboration with ASHRAE, the US Department of Energy (DoE), the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, the California Air Resources Board and Johnson Controls, is engaged in a multi-million-dollar research programme to establish a strong case for the use of flammable refrigerants, as part of global efforts to phase down the use of high-GWP refrigerants and identify climate-friendly alternatives. AHRI attended the 28th Meeting of the Parties to Montreal Protocol in October in Kigali, Rwanda, during which an agreement was reached to include HFC refrigerants in the Protocol’s (treaty’s) purview. AHRI for long has supported the inclusion of HFCs under the treaty. B Surendar of Climate Control Middle East spoke to AHRI President, Steve Yurek in the aftermath of the watershed Kigali meeting.

Posted: December 26, 2016

Agreement calls for reduction of HFCs equivalent to 80 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide through 2047

Posted: October 20, 2016

With new refrigerants entering the market, a concern has been expressed over the potential misidentification of similarly coloured containers.

Posted: June 29, 2016