Interviews

Carrier – ‘ME can be the leader in sustainability’

John Mandyck, Vice President for Sustainability and Environmental Strategies at Carrier, elaborates on how he sees the GCC shaping up in its green initiatives

Pal Technology – Compact, conservative

Pal Technology’s claim to fame is that its plant on Reem Island is an example of a measured approach to district cooling at the height of the construction boom in the UAE ...

Fakers will not delight

Paul Sanders, Honeywell talks to us about raising awareness of the dangers of fake coolant.

‘ESMA is a positive development’

Carrier recently earned an ESMA certification and also launched the Evergreen 19XRD in the region. B Surendar of Climate Control Middle East caught up with Philippe Delpech, the president of Carrier EMEA, to discuss the developments. Excerpts from the interview ...

‘Earlier, the focus was not on the source energy’

Claims that manufactured without CFCs or HFCs, they meet sustainability and green building codes

‘Qatar trusts wireless’

During the Fleming Gulf Summit, Climate Control Middle East interviewed Tarek El-Far of Ista Middle East, just days prior to Qatar’s successful 2022 bid. Excerpts …

Three times as big

Imad Kaba of Trane talks to B Surendar on the market for district cooling in Saudi Arabia and of the company’s approach to rising demand

“It’s about hitting higher levels of efficiency”

Climate Control Middle East speaks to Johnson Controls Ashraf Abdalla, Vice President of Small Tonnage Chillers about the recently introduced variable-speed driven, air-cooled screw chillers

LU-VE notes

LU-VE was one of the exhibitors in the recently concluded Chillventa event in Germany. Khalil Semaan, the Managing Director (Middle East) for LU-VE, holds court on the company’s Minichannel technology and on its strategies for the region

The road to 0.329 kW per TR

During IDEA’s annual District Energy Conference and Trade Show, in Indianapolis, USA, Juan Ontiveros, the ex-Chair of IDEA and the Executive Director of Utilities and Energy Management at the University of Texas at Austin, reported achieving 0.329kW/TR (for January 2010) at the district cooling scheme on campus. B Surendar of Climate Control Middle East caught up with him in Indianapolis to find out how. excerpts from the interview…

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