NEWS

Come and see us at The ACR Show 2012!

With just 5 weeks to go, Climalife are busy preparing to attend this year's ACR Show, taking place at Birmingham's NEC from 13th-15th March.

The show promises to be a busy event, with over 100 exhibitors attending from the air conditioning and refrigeration industry. There will be a programme of seminars taking place over the course of the 3 days for visitors, and also a Skills Centre and Networking Area offering visitors the opportunity to catch up with fellow industry professionals.

The Climalife team will be on hand to answer any questions on our portfolio of products including refrigerants, heat transfer fluids, lubricants, waste management and cleaning products, and we also look forward to talking to our visitors about our range of low-energy and low-GWP refrigerant solutions.

Come and see us at stand F43 - we will be serving up a special treat to visitors to the stand, and we look forward top seeing you there!

For further information on the show, venue, and how to register, please visit http://www.thenec.co.uk/whatson/the-acr-show

IDS CLIMALIFE BECOMES CLIMALIFE

With effect from 1st January 2012 IDS Refrigeration Ltd will change its logo to Climalife. IDS Refrigeration Ltd will remain as the legal entity but as part of the Dehon group strategy, all Climalife subsidiaries throughout the world will promote their products and services under the trademark of Climalife.

Climalife benefits from the structure of the Dehon group, a key player in performance chemistry. We will continue to meet your requirements with a range of products and services for temperature control systems, refrigerants, secondary refrigerants, heat transfer fluids, oils, cleaning chemicals, analysis, and technical advice. Innovative services developed for safety and the environment, technical and regulatory information, and high performance tools complete this comprehensive service.

Don't Catch a Cold this Winter!

With weather forecasters predicting another cold winter, are your water/glycol systems giving your customers enough protection from frost?

IDS can supply your glycol needs, from our Friogel and Neutragel Neo to some new glycol alternatives which reduce the reliance on traditional fossil fuels.

IDS can supply 2 glycol alternatives, the first which was introduced earlier this year and is a ready to use heat transfer fluid produced from 100% vegetable resource and is organic, the second is Thermera which is based on water and betaine, which has many advantages over conventional glycols. Both products can be found in our products section under Heat Transfer Fluids.

If you are considering a natural alternative to traditional glycols IDS can assist you with your choice, please contact us today. Please click here to go to our heat transfer page and check our products out.

Recovered Refrigerant: don't lose track of your responsibilities.

In a recent article in the ACR News our Peter Dinnage looks at the markets confusion over what constitues recovered and reclaimed refrigerant.

To read the whole article, please click here.

Also discussed in the article is an update on the Hazardous waste regulations, the Environment Agency has full guidance on completion of the new waste notes and can be found here:

Environment Agency Weblink.

F-Gas Support Certification update

F-Gas support have issued a reminder that all Interim Personnel and Company Certificates expire on 4 July 2011.

It will be an offence to continue working with an interim Personnel or interim Company Certificate after 4 July 2011. If you or your business does not currently hold one of the full Personnel Certificates listed below or a full Company Certificate by 4 July 2011 you should apply for one urgently.

To view the whole document please click here.

IDS Climalife Introduces the Greenway® for Heat Transfer Fluids

IDS Climalife has introduced a ready-to-use organic heat transfer fluid to the UK produced from a 100% renewable vegetable resource. Greenway®, available in formats designed for heating, renewable energy and refrigeration applications, is an organic and low ecological footprint alternative to heat transfer fluids made from a fossil base. The Greenway® manufacturing process produces 40% less CO2 emissions and uses 40% less energy than that of traditional Mono Propylene Glycol.

To read the UK press release click here.

To visit the Climalife website for more information on this product please click here.

IDS Climalife working with Carel UK.

IDS Climalife is working in partnership with CAREL on its range of electronic controls for the air conditioning market in the UK. Peter Dinnage, IDS Climalife Commercial Manager, says: "We are delighted to be working with CAREL on its range of programmable and parametric controllers, electronic expansion valves and sensors.

To read the full press release please click here.

To view the product brochures please visit our download section.

IDS Climalife at Chillventa 2010

At the Recent Chillventa exhibition IDS Climalife were pleased to announce the following new products and services:

A new range of Heat Transfer Fluids, including a new product called 'Greenway' which is a product of vegetable based origin that is fully Biodegradable and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% over its lifecycle when compared to MPG. Neutragel NEO and Friogel NEO provide optimum system corrosion protection and superior heat exchange performance and are now formulated without the use of borax, making these products safer for users than many competitive products. Please click here for more information. To read more about the 'Greenway' product please visit the Climalife website by clicking here.

Climalife also launched a new toluene-free Actitest UNIPRO which enables the acidity of oil to be determined on-site within a matter of seconds and is suitable for use with mineral, alkylbenzene, polyalphaolefin and polyolester oils. Developed in house by the Dehon Group, Actitest UNIPRO has an extended shelf life of up to two years. Please click here for more information.

The new 'Climalife Catalogue' is now available in pdf format to download, either in full or by the section you want, please follow this link to the appropriate section of the Climalife Website.

DuPont launches New Refrigerants at Chillventa

DuPont Refrigerants officially launched their HFO 1234yf at the recent Chillventa exhibition, it will be used as a replacement for R134a in the car AC sector. They also announced a completely new product called XP10 which is based on the same technology as HFO 1234yf but is designed to replace R134a in stationary refrigeration equipment. To read their full press release from the show, 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.

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.