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IIR at COP29 in Baku: Week 1 in review
The first week of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, brought together global leaders, scientists, and industry stakeholders to tackle pressing climate issues. Among the key participants, the...
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Corporate members: news
Founded in 2003, Playcube SARL, a new IIR corporate member based in France, has developed FreezCube, a simple monitoring device which provides useful information related to the safety of frozen foods stored in freezers: FreezCube confirms that the...
IIR Working Party on “Energy Labelling in the Cold Chain”
The Terms of Reference of the new IIR Working Party (WP) "Energy labelling in the cold chain" have been approved. The main objective of this WP - chaired by Prof. Giovanni Cortella, Italy, and involving Commissions D1 and D2 - is to investigate...
Editorial by Didier Coulomb
The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) is 100 years old. A number of events are to be held in IIR member countries in order to mark the IIR's centenary. The Focus of this issue describes these events, and throughout 2008 all issues...
2008, Refrigeration Year
Many events and actions have already been scheduled or have already taken place in various countries in order to celebrate the IIR's centenary and the 100th anniversaries of several national associations of refrigeration (France, the Netherlands,...
International events: IIR statutory meetings
The Management Committee of the IIR met on February 1, 2008 in Paris, France. There was also a Publications Sub-Committee meeting and a restricted Science and Technology Council meeting on January 31 and February 1, 2008. A group also met in order...
International events: ASHRAE
ASHRAE's Winter Meeting took place in New York, United States, on January 19-23, 2008. There was, as usual, a big conference and a big exhibition on heating, refrigeration and air conditioning. A meeting of the Society Alliances was held on...
International events: HCFCs
A national conference on HCFCs took place in Algiers, Algeria, on March 18, 2008, organized by Mr Ahmed Chikouche, Delegate of Algeria to the IIR, in order to raise the awareness of decision-makers and to discuss HCFC replacement solutions in...
International events: European Central Asia
The European Central Asia network of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) held its 7th annual meeting in Tirana, Albania. It was focused on the phase-out of CFCs in Metered-Dose Inhalants (MDIs) and the replacement of HCFCs in foams and...
International events: Chillventa 2008
Chillventa 2008 will be held in Nuremberg, Germany, on October 15- 17, 2008. Mark this date in your diary and find out more: www.chillventa.de/en The IIR will be exhibiting on DKV's stand,...
International events: Interclima
Interclima took place on February 5-8, 2008. The IIR and the French Refrigeration Association (AFF) ran stands and launched Refrigeration Year. Appropriately, a 100-year-old ice machine, La Rapide, was demonstrated by its owner, Mr Alain Guyard,...
Conference update: Copenhagen
Don't miss the 8th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Working Fluids (GL2008), the event in this field, to be held on September 7-10, 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark. With over 150 abstracts received, this will be a milestone event. Find out...
Conference update: Melbourne
IIR 2008 - HVAC Energy Efficiency Best Practice Conference will be held in Melbourne on September 18-19, 2008. This cutting-edge event will cover solar air conditioning and heating of buildings, comfort and indoor environmental quality in energy...
Conference update: Xi’an
The IIR-co-sponsored 6th International Conference on Compressors and Refrigeration, ICCR2008, will take place in Xi'an, China, on September 25-28, 2008. Find out more and register:
Conference update: Poznan
Design and operation of environmentally friendly refrigeration and AC systems, an IIR-co-sponsored event, will take place in Poznan, Poland, on October 15-17, 2008. Present a paper and register:
Conference update: Singapore
The 1st IIR Cold Chain Conference will take place in Singapore on April 27-29, 2009. Keep updated: brendan@airah.org.au, www.airah.org.au
The IJR is 30!
The IJR is celebrating its 30th birthday! The first issue was published on May 1, 1978. In his first Editorial, the first Editor-in-Chief, Professor G. G. Haselden, University of Leeds, UK, spoke about the spirit, concept, and aims of the new...
New IIR members
The IIR welcomes the following new members : Corporate members Frigor Service Réunion, Saint Pierre, Ile de la Réunion Veolia Environnement, Limay, France Private members Mr Jean-Pierre Bernard, France Mr Leonilton Tomaz Cleto,...
- During the IIAR's 2008 Ammonia Refrigeration and Conference, the first fundraising event, a golf tournament, was held in order to launch Ammonia Refrigeration Foundation actions. The recently formed foundation will promote charitable,...
Conference update: Ohrid
The next conference in a series of leading-edge IIR events on ammonia is to be held in Ohrid, Macedonia, on May 7-9, 2009: Ammonia Refrigeration Technology.ristoci@ukim.edu.mk,
UN Climate Change Conference in Bali
- The 13th United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, which was also the 3rd meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, took place in Bali, Indonesia, on December 3-14, 2007. More than 10 000 persons attended this event which...
The International Institute of Refrigeration, along with several national refrigeration associations, was founded in 1908. 2008 will thus be the IIR's centenary and will be called "Year of Refrigeration". 2008 will mark an important milestone in...
International events: Strasbourg
New Ventures in Freeze-Drying, an IIR conference organized by Aérial, was held in Strasbourg, France, on November 7-9, 2007. Thirty-five participants from 11 countries seized this rare opportunity to exchange knowledge and examine the state of the...
International events: Brussels
The Executive Committee meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Heat Pump Programme took place in Brussels, Belgium on November 15-16, 2007. It was preceded by a seminar and a workshop. The Director of the IIR attended the Executive...
International events: Moscow
The 6th Cryogen-Expo took place in Moscow on November 13-16, 2007. Fifty-nine exhibitors from 10 countries took part, and a conference on Cryogenic Technologies and Equipment and Prospects of Development was staged on November 14-15. The IIR ran a...
Conference update: Amsterdam
- The IIR co-sponsored 11th European Cold Chain Education Program, an IIR-co-sponsored event, will be held in Amsterdam on February 25-26, 2008. The theme is "Back to basics: safe, efficient and profitable cold storage and distribution". The event...
