COMEDIAN and presenter Paul Tonkinson will be the host for the ACR News Awards 2012, being held at the National Motorcycle Museum on Wednesday March 14.

CARRIER and Midea are to form an air conditioning manufacturing and distribution joint venture in India. Chinese manufacturer Midea will own 60% of the joint venture and its US counterpart, Carrier, 40%.

CARRIER and Midea are to form an air conditioning manufacturing and distribution joint venture in India. Chinese manufacturer Midea will own 60% of the joint venture and its US counterpart, Carrier, 40%.

A COMPLETELY new range of semi-hermetic reciprocating compressors capable of running with a number of different refrigerants, is set to make its UK debut on the Emerson Climate Technologies stand at the ACR Show.

REFRIGERANT producer Mexichem has moved to secure supplies of fluorspar - a vital element in the production of HFC refrigerants - having been given the go-ahead to acquire the fluorspar producer Fluorita de Mexico and the mine concessions of Las Sabinas.

JOHNSON Controls has joined forces with West-Sussex-based contractor Danston Technical Services in an expansion of its UK Industrial Refrigeration Division.

BUSINESS opportunities abound for visitors to the ACR Show 2012, the UK's only dedicated air conditioning and refrigeration event. As well as viewing and discussing the latest products from over 100 manufacturers and suppliers, visitors will also be able to access any of the wide programme of seminars on a multitude of thought-provoking topics.

GEA has merged its UK refrigeration businesses, GEA Eurotek, GEA Grasso Holdings, GEA Refrigeration Components and GEA Grenco, into one comany.

SWEDISH refrigeration and air conditioning wholesaler G & L Beijer has sold AIA, its cooler, condenser and heat exchanger manufacturing business to the Italian Lu-Ve Group. At the same time, G & L Beijer has entered into a global collaboration agreement with Lu-Ve to distribute their products.

CHINA'S State Intellectual Property Office has confirmed the conviction of a Shanghai man for selling counterfeit refrigerant.