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Malte se joint à l’effort mondial contre le changement climatique en tant que 172e pays à ratifier l’amendement de Kigali
En décembre 2025, Malte a ratifié l’amendement de Kigali, qui entrera en vigueur dans le pays en mars 2026.
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Brief: PathogenCombat
PathogenCombat is an EU project designed to combat foodborne diseases and when, why and how these are spread and involves 44 teams from 16 countries. Researchers involved in the project meet regularly at workshops. PathogenCombat's mission is:...
News about IIR Member: Cemagref
Researchers from Cemagref, corporate member of the IIR, in conjunction with the GREThE in Grenoble, and financed by the Agency for the environment and energy management (ADEME), have developed a prototype refrigerating system that allows the...
News about IIR member: Dehon Services
Mr Jean-Michel Naud has been nominated Managing Director of Dehon Services, a corporate member of the IIR. The Dehon Group has decided to reposition its refrigeration business and has set up ClimalifeTM in order to formulate, package and...
Out of the ordinary: Trendy ice bars
- London's first Ice Bar is maintained at a temperature of -5°C. Absolut Vodka and Ice Hotel have joined forces to create an environment with the décor, bar stools and glasses made of ice imported from within the Arctic Circle.
Heat exhangers: what's new?
Nanotechnology: the future of heat exchangers? The US Department of Energy has awarded contracts to improve energy efficiency. One such contract, awarded to TIAX, a technology development company, through the Small Business Innovation...
Cool IT: a new use for CO2
Carbon dioxide offers a new optimum cooling medium for IT facilities. Electrically benign, and therefore non-hazardous to servers and cabling, it is seven times more efficient at cooling than water: CO2 permits reduced volume flows and smaller...
Packaging innovations
Plant-based food packaging Biodegradable packaging looks set to be the way of the future. A sharp rise in demand for natural products and healthier food added to the stability of maize prices versus those of petroleum-based polymers have...
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...
Cheers to that!
An innovative brewery refrigeration system that uses natural CO2 gas has been conceived by engineers from the Ziemann Group in collaboration with Axima. This system, which will be of particular interest to large plants with extensive pipe networks...
Ice Gurus
Ice tailoring appears to be the new Olympic challenge. Ice must be tailored to each athlete's needs, e.g. long-track speed skaters prefer a surface as low as -7 to -8°C, whilst figure skaters need to dig their skates into the ice in order to pull...
Brief: Reefer
Safmarine's improved reefer technology is providing solutions enabling the exporting of perishable produce previously considered as being unsuitable for shipment by sea. Safmarine South Africa was the first company in its network to ship 40-feet...
Brief: Protrait of an optimal system
With looming commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, energy efficiency in buildings, including in art galleries, is essential. Paintings not only require an aesthetic environment, but one in which the air temperature and humidity is controlled. The...
Brief: Tetrapack
Tetrapak has launched a low-temperature ice-cream innovation based on a unique cold-kneading freezing process that creates fine-structured ice cream of improved quality and paves the way to production of new and healthier products. The Hoyer...
Brief: A stop to weight loss!
Although spraying of refrigerated meat produce throughout transportation has been in operation for over 20 years, water loss continues to be a problem during the second phase of refrigeration in the cold chamber. However, if the entire enclosure...
Brief: System to go!
Danfoss has been awarded its 4th consecutive Refrigeration Innovation Award for a completely self-contained refrigeration system. The Interchangeable Cooling Engine (I.C.E.) was designed for vending machine applications - it is already compliant...
Japan
In a bid to reduce its carbon emissions to 6% less than 1990 levels by 2010 in line with the Kyoto Protocol and in order to combat the country's current increase of almost 8% in carbon emissions, the Japanese government has drawn up a law that...
US
A new voluntary programme to reduce hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs) emissions has been set up in the US by EPA in conjunction with the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM). This initiative should help to reduce HFC emissions in the...
Europe
As the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Recycling Directive is being transposed into national law across Europe, three organisations (European Committee of Household Appliance Manufacturers, European Electronics Recyclers...
Cooling vests go to Iraq
Approximately 500 cooling vests are currently being tested by soldiers driving armoured vehicles in Iraq and Kuwait. The vests are worn under body armour and a hose from each vest is plugged into the Humvee's on-board air-conditioning system....
Fresh altitude
Occupants of airliner cabins will be breathing fresher air soon thanks to research being carried out in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Experiments were carried out in a simulated section of aircraft constructed in a climate chamber...
Chiller contract for Beijing airport
Direct-fire absorption chillers have been chosen for the air-conditioning project of the Beijing Capital International Airport. Three 7 MW direct-fired absorption chillers using natural gas will be provided by Jiangsu Shuangliang for the No.3...
Refrigerant Fraud
Fake cylinders of HFCs such as R-134a, R-407C, R-410A, etc. have been found in parts of Europe in Germany, Poland and Greece, but not so far the UK. Samples taken from a cylinder labelled R-134a were analysed by refrigerant producer Honeywell and...
Cooling Industry Award 2005
Linde Kaltechnik GmbH & Co. KG has been awarded the Cooling Industry Award 2005 for its innovative use of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a refrigerant for normal-temperature refrigeration in a transcritical cycle. Linde Kaltetechnik won the award in...
Markets: Chillers
According to a recent market report by BSRIA, an estimated 200 400 units of chillers were shipped worldwide in 2004. The estimated number of centrifugal chillers was 8500 with the USA at the centre of production (3500 units equal to 41% of the...
Markets: frozen food: Europe
The top 4 European countries in terms of consumption per capita of quick-frozen foods, excluding poultry, are Sweden (46.9 kg), Ireland, (46.6 kg), the UK (45.5 kg) and Denmark (45.2 kg). According to the Swiss research institute Food for Thought...
