Monday, March 30, 2020 - 12:11 COVID-19: open letter from AREA President In an open letter AREA President Marco Buoni calls on European Heads of State and National Governments to enable refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump contractors to fulfill our European citiz
Friday, March 6, 2020 - 12:03 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE offers FREE e-learning certificate The REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE project has recently launched a FREE e-learning course completion certificate available to anyone who has completed all pages of all nine of the e-learning modules. The e-
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 15:02 AREA & ISHRAE sign a Memorandum of Understanding On 2nd February 2020, after the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Environment Programme last November 2019 in Rome and in the frame of the 31 st Meeting of the Parties
Monday, December 9, 2019 - 09:37 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE - December 2019 Newsletter REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE December 2019 Training and skills for Low GWP refrigerants – safety, reliability and efficiency Join us for an Institute of Refrigeration webinar on 12th December to demo
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 11:42 AREA and UNEP deepen their cooperation In the margins of the MOP31 that took place last week, AREA and UNEP officialised the deepening of their cooperation with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding. Whereas AREA and UNEP are alre
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 12:08 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE - November 2019 Newsletter REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE Newsletter | November 2019 Successful training on flammables in the Czech Republic SCHKT recently hosted a training on flammables in Prague which resulted in six technicians s
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 11:21 Replacing your heat pump in an environmentally friendly way The market for replacement of air-to-air heat pumps is growing steadily. As heat pumps are being replaced at end of life, it is important to ensure that the fluorinated greenhouse gases heat pumps con
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 14:21 AREA Vision 2025 Cooling is essential to modern life and it makes people’s lives better: refrigeration preserves foodstuff and vaccines whilst air conditioning provides thermal comfort and keeps data centres runn
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 15:53 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE - September 2019 Newsletter Newsletter | September 2019 Tell us how your training needs have changed As someone who has been involved in REAL Alternatives as a learner or stakeholder we welcome your views as the programme has no
Friday, September 6, 2019 - 16:16 Join us for the launch of AREA Vision 2025 The cooling sector is vital for modern life: it is necessary to preserve the quality of our food and medicines, it provides indoor air comfort and is necessary to maintain data-centres running and ind
Thursday, July 18, 2019 - 16:18 Leaflet on illegal refrigerants With the EU F-Gas Regulation and HFC phase down, the pressure on HFCs, particularly when they have a high GWP, has considerably increased. Refrigerants have become precious goods. They are essential f
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 10:15 Happy World Refrigeration Day! AREA supports the first World Refrigeration Day on the anniversary of Lord Kelvin’s birth on 26 th June. Such a celebration is an acknowledgment of the societal contribution of refrigeration, air
Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 09:18 EUREKA 2019 - We want more women in the industry! The EUREKA conference 2019 was held on 11 and 12 June in Bruges, Belgium, headed " How can the HVAC-R industry contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? ". One of the most important i
Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 09:10 New industry guidelines on EPBD implementation Newly published guidelines to ensure an effective and harmonised EPBD implementation AREA has been actively cooperating as an EPEE member in the development of implementation guidelines for the revise
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 11:13 AREA #EUREKA 2019 AREA is taking part in EUREKA, the EPEE & EVIA event looking at the role of the HVACR sector (Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration) for society and future generations. AREA President
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 11:09 AREA 2018 Annual Report In 2018... Marco Buoni became President of AREA The Greek association Hellas Union Fgas became the 26th member of AREA TF Fgas worked on the implementation of the Fgas Regulation, refrigerants' availa
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 11:59 The “HVACR Week”, a joint industry initiative AREA , the Associazione Tecnici del Freddo , EPEE and EVIA are joining efforts to emphasise the importance of the Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration sector during the first ever
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 12:20 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE - Train the trainer events As part of the REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE project, the first two train-the-trainers events took place in the past couple of weeks. The first Train-the-trainers event was held in Istanbul on 12-14 March
Monday, March 11, 2019 - 11:51 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE - March 2019 Newsletter Newsletter | March 2019 Training and assessment is now available in Spain for alternative refrigerants Pictured right is the first REAL Alternatives Training course being delivered in Spain Confederac
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 10:06 2nd meeting of the United Nations Environment OzonAction On 18-19 february 2019, AREA President Marco Buoni participated in the second global network meeting of the United Nations Environment OzonAction. Mr. Buoni took part in 3 events during the meeting: T
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 15:33 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE launches webinars for training providers and employers REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE is inviting you to take part in one of our two webinars that will explain how you, as a training provider or employer can benefit from our blended learning approach. The REAL
Monday, February 4, 2019 - 11:32 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE @Refrigera REAL Alternatives for LIFE - outreach and opportunities for training in alternative future refrigerants On 21 February 2019, a workshop presenting the REAL Alternatives for LIFE project will be held d
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 12:28 REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE - November Newsletter REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE Newsletter | November 2018 Even more language versions now available! The REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE booklets have now been translated into Czech, German, Spanish, French, Croat
Monday, November 12, 2018 - 17:21 Installers increasingly aware of illegal trade of refrigerants An AREA internal survey reveals that nearly 80% of the industry is aware of illegal trade of some of the most commonly used HFCs. This observation is made while a decrease in availability of these ref
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 09:53 Leaflet on flammable refrigerants Low GWP refrigerants are increasingly used as a result of the HFC phase-down provided by the F-gas Regulation. Many of these low GWP refrigerants are flammable. This characteristic has various direct
