Offered in a distance learning format, IIAR will host the 55^th offering of its industrial refrigeration workshop on February 7-17. The short course on industrial refrigeration as practiced in food freezing, refrigeration and in other low temperature applications will be delivered live online via the IIAR interactive virtual learning platform.

Keeping water quality at optimal levels is essential to promoting process efficiency and user satisfaction while avoiding premature corrosion and equipment failures, says Yokogawa in a white paper.

Eurovent Middle East — an industry association representing regional manufacturers of indoor climate/HVAC, process cooling, food cold chain, industrial ventilation, and building automation technologies — released its Cooling Tower Guidebook. The association says it seeks to create awareness of and provide an overview about the energy-efficient cooling technology.

Lineage Logistics LLC acquired Auscold Logistics, a South Australian transport and warehousing company. The acquisition includes a cold-storage warehouse in Adelaide and a fleet of more than 70 GPS-tracked, temperature-controlled trucks that provide chilled and frozen transport to Australia’s capital cities and major regional centers.

Vertical Cold Storage, a South Dakota-based developer and operator of temperature-controlled distribution centers, purchased Lone Star Cold Storage of Richardson, Texas. The 227,331 ft² cold-storage facility in Richardson includes 17,982 pallet positions and 40 dock doors.

Stellar, a fully integrated design-build firm, completed its design-build project for Fairlife LLC in Goodyear, Ariz. Fairlife, a unit of Coca-Cola Co., produces ultra-filtered milk and other dairy products.

Schneider Electric entered into an alliance partnership with Chilldyne, a supplier of liquid cooling solutions for data centers. Through the agreement, Schneider Electric will offer Chilldyne’s negative-pressure liquid cooling technology for data centers.

Exergen Global has rebranded itself as CleverIR as it diversifies its focus of providing infrared temperature-measuring solutions for industrial applications.

Julabo, a supplier of temperature control technology, continues its expansion with the acquisition of GAF. The medium-sized company based in Germany brings additional expertise in electronics and automation to Julabo, say the companies. 

Babcock & Wilcox’s B&W Environmental segment received a contract for approximately $5 million to supply a Spig S.p.A. cooling system for a petrochemical facility in the Middle East.