The REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE project's alternative refrigerants e-learning platform is now live in 15 languages.
The free tool focuses on safety, efficiency, reliability and containment of low GWP alternative refrigerants – carbon dioxide, ammonia, hydrocarbon and low flammables (HFOs and R32).
Logic Certification (LCL) has launched a new F-Gas qualification designed in association with the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Industry Board (ACRIB).
The level 3 Award is designed to give professional Refrigeration, Air Condition and Heat Pump (RACHP) engineers involved in the application of flammable gases, a better understanding of the Health & Safety regulations relating to the planning, installation, commissioning and servicing of RACHP equipment.
Steve Gill received a Gold Stevie Award for the Cool Mentoring Scheme at a presentation dinner in Tokyo.
Thermentor.Org - Cool Mentoring was launched in 2015 to help match mentors to mentees across the global refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump industry. It is a not-for-profit project started and run by volunteers with a genuine desire to help their industry. Since its initial pilot scheme, 110 pairs from 12 countries across 4 continents have taken part.
Stephen Gill Associates struck gold in the fourth annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards for its Thermentor.Org – Cool Mentoring scheme.
​​It was named the winner of a Gold Award in the ‘Innovative Use of Technology in Human Resources’ category in the only programme to recognise innovation in the workplace in all 22 nations of the Asia-Pacific region.
German refrigeration compressors manufacturer, Bitzer, opened its new, international training centre in Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, Germany recently.
The 1,500-square-metre (16,145 sq ft) training academy took a year to build and was named in honour of the company's owner, Senator Peter Schaufler , who died in 2015.