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  • Briefs: Changes at ARI

    William G. "Woody" Sutton, President of the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) since 2001, has resigned. Stephen Yurek has recently been appointed Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, and Mark Menzer is now Senior Vice...

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
  • Reefer rental: trends

    The reefer rental market has benefited from unexpected development. It started in the 1980s when thousands of refrigerated containers ceased being used, following the external trade collapse of fruit-exporting countries. The reefers were first...

    • Publication date : 2006/07/26
  • PZT: electric cooling

    A new material has been developed by a team of Cambridge scientists that turns cold at the press of a button. They have found a ceramic material that has a giant electrocaloric effect; 100 times larger than that seen in the 1960s when this...

    • Publication date : 2006/05/05
  • LG unveils world's largest home refrigerator

    LG Electronics claims to have launched the world's largest home refrigerator. It has 4 doors and an internal storage capacity of 910 litres, this being 40 litres more than the largest previously existing models.

    • Publication date : 2012/12/17
  • Refrigerated self-driving grocery stores in San Francisco

    At the last Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January, the Robomart start-up presented refrigerated self-driving stores equipped with shelves to stock fresh products.

    • Publication date : 2018/03/22
  • A surprising increase in the emissions of trichlorofluoromethane (R11) since 2012

    An article published in Nature underlines the unexpected and persistent increase in global emissions of ozone-depleting R11.

    • Publication date : 2018/06/22
    • Subjects: Regulation