NEWS

IDS Refrigeration CPI oil offer

IDS is offering a 10% discount off orders for the CPI range of POE and Ammonia oils during July and August to read more please click here

Temper Chosen By Lidl Group

LIDL in Germany & The Schwarz Group have chosen Temper as the heat transfer fluid for 4 Logistic Centres in Germany.

The Logistic centre at Paderborn with 30 000 sqm of storage, provides 70 local LIDL shops with daily deliveries . The Centre contains 1 400 sq. m of frozen food storage at - 24 °C and 4 400 sq. m of cold storage at 0-2 °C. All the refrigeration is produced by natural refrigerants, the medium temperature area uses ammonia as refrigerant and Temper-15 as the secondary coolant. The Low temperature area is a CO2 system with improved waste heat defrost. The defrost for the air coolers, equipped with double piping, is done with Temper -40 utilising the waste heat.

This concept has also be used at Kerpen, Paderborn, Freienbrink (Berlin) and Siek (Hamburg).

For more information about the heat transfer fluid Temper please go to our products section.

2010 The Ban On The Use Of Virgin R22 and other HCFC's

'Happy New Year 2010'

The use of Virgin HCFCs is now illegal. Don't say you were not warned!

Many still don't realise it is illegal to use virgin product this year that they bought before the 31st December 2009.

IDS are well placed to advise on the different options available, whether it is converting systems to the different products available or using reclaimed product.

With extensive experience of the use of direct replacements in a wide range of equipment, based on experience gained from those who have already carried out conversions, IDS can advise on the most approriate option for your HCFC equipment.

IDS also offer a reclamation facility for the R22 recovered from systems that are converted or replaced, offering credit or a reclamation and/or a banking option to those using the IDS service.

For the continued supply of reprocessed R22-R this year, users will need to convert or replace equipment to generate recovered product for reclamation.

Product information can be found in the product section and conversion guidelines and case studies in the download section of this website.

IDS Sponsor the RAC Student of the Year Award

The 15th RAC Student of the Year awards was held on Tuesday December 8th, the new venue at the ICC was a good one, with many gathering in Broad Street after the event. IDS are one of the proud sponsors of this event and are proud to be associated with its recognition of the industry's finest young talent.

Andrew Gaved, the editor of RAC Magazine, reported that there was a slightly lower entry level this year, but that there was no lesser standard. We were treated to a speech from the first ever winner of the awards back in 1994, David Marshall from Bradley Refrigeration, who, explained how winning back then gave him the career boost he needed to start him on the road to the directorship he now holds at Bradley's.

After a very good lunch, the presentations were made:

The Gold Award of £750 and the trophy went to James McClennon of Cornwall Cooling, trained at City College, Plymouth.

The Silver Award went to Robert Hughes of the Cammach Group, trained at Tullos Training and the Bronze Award went to Jack Barter of MacWhirter Western, trained at City College Plymouth. There was a 'Highly Commended' award for Joseph Cameron.

Kingsly Curtis, was given recognition for his work over 50 years in the business.

It was noted by Andrew Gaved that most of the entrants were from the smaller contracting companies and that there was a marked absence of entries from the larger contractors this year, which hopefully will change next year.

Pumped Circulation System Converted to ISCEON MO29

Although ISCEON MO29 (R422D) is well proven as a replacement for R22 in Direct Expansion Systems (Dx), many industry commentators have reported that these refrigerants will not work in systems with flooded evaporators.

However, IDS in conjunction with DuPont have proved that this is not the case. In 2006 a low temperature, Low Pressure Receiver system (LPR) in a cold store was succesfully converted to ISCEON MO29. In 2008 a low temperature pump circulation system on a ship and another in a cold store were succesfully converted in Holland. In June 2009 a medium temperature pumped  system in the South East of England was converted. Full details of the conversion can be found with a case study in the download section and the article that appeared in ACR Today can be found in the Articles section.

F Gas Company registration scheme operational

REFCOM has signed an agreement with the Department for Environment,

Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirming its appointment as a mandatory F gas

company certification body for businesses operating in the stationary refrigeration,

air-conditioning and heat-pump (SRAC) sector in Great Britain.

To view the whole document please click here

For more information on registration and a link to the Refcom website please click here

Two other bodies have subsequently had approval to provide company registration.

DuPont adds ISCEON MO99 (R438A) to the ISCEON 9 Series

DuPont has addeed ISCEON® MO99 (R438A) to the range of replacement refrigerants available in the UK. It is an easy to use, non-ozone depleting HFC refrigerant blend.

ISCEON® MO99 may be used in water chiller applications and has advantages over ISCEON® MO29 where the expansion valve has a fixed orifice or is closely sized to the capacity of the system.

For more information visit our product and download sections.

ACR News Item 'The R22 message is getting through at last'

In the March edition of the ACR Today our Peter Dinnage looks at how the R22 phase-out is going with some encouraging news. To read the article please click here.

IDS Lightweight Cylinders a Success

IDS Refrigeration launched the lightweight composite construction cylinders Frioplus® and Cubikool® last year. The cylinder, which conforms to European directive 1999/36/CE manufactured with a tough, durable, polypropylene outer casing and reduced steel content inner element has been hailed as a successful addition to the IDS Cylinder fleet.

Many of our customers are enjoying the benfits of these lightweight stackable cylinders, to find out how you too can benefit please contact us.

If you would like to see some pictures of these cylinders please click here

DuPont Launches 'Wakeup2pahseout' Website

Are you prepared for the 2010 HCFC phaseout?

According to a survey conducted by DuPont recently some 65% of installations accross europe are dependant upon R22 and other HCFC's. The Wake Up 2 Phaseout website explores the legislation the risks and the options surrounding the end of virgin HCFC's.

To visit this website please click here.