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ENOUGH Project: Joint Statement on Food Waste Reduction

The ENOUGH project has joined efforts to call for rigorous food waste reduction measures in Europe.

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  • International activities: IEA-HPP

    A meeting of the International Energy Agency-Heat Pump Programme-IIR Liaison Committee took place in Paris on November 6, 2006 and the annual meeting of the Programme took place in Hanover on November 9-10, 2006. Henk van der Ree and Hermann...

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Upcoming IIR events: ICR2007

    22nd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (ICR2007): Refrigeration Creates the Future will take place on August 21-26, 2007 in Beijing, China. Keep updated and register:www.icr2007.org

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Upcoming IIR events: Portoroz

    The 2nd IIR International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature will take place on April 11-13, 2007 in Portoroz, Slovenia. Register: www.thermag2007.si Alojz Poredos

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Upcoming IIR events: Ohrid

    Ammonia Refrigeration Technology for Today and Tomorrow, the second IIR event in this series, will be held on April 19-21, 2007 in Ohrid, Macedonia (FYROM). Register:

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Upcoming IIR events: Barcelona

    LNG 15 - Liquefied Natural Gas, a conference co-organized by the IIR, will take place on April 24-27, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. The IIR will be running a stand and giving out its Informatory Note on LNG:

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Upcoming IIR events: Strasbourg

    Interested in freeze-drying? Here is a rare opportunity to become updated on the state of the art: New Ventures in Freeze-drying, an IIR conference, will take place in Strasbourg, France on November 7-9, 2007. Call for papers, registration and...

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Red Book on sale!

    The Red Book (Recommendations for the Processing and Handling of Frozen Foods) is one of the IIR's reference publications and one of its best sellers. The 4th edition - prepared by Mr Leif Bøgh-Sørensen and several international experts - presents...

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Briefs: IKK 2006

    The 27th International Trade Fair for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Ventilation, took place in Nuremberg on October 18-20, 2006 and attracted record numbers of visitors (29 124) and exhibitors (893). For the fourth year running the IIR was...

    • Publication date : 2007/02/12
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  • Upcoming IIR events: ICR2007

    22nd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (ICR2007): Refrigeration Creates the Future will take place on August 21- 26, 2007 in Beijing, China. Keep updated and register:www.icr2007.org

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • Upcoming IIR events: Portoroz

    The 2nd IIR International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature will take place on April 11- 13, 2007 in Portoroz, Slovenia. Present a paper and register:

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • Upcoming IIR events: Ohrid

    Ammonia Refrigeration Technology for Today and Tomorrow, the second IIR event in this series, will be held on April 19-21, 2007 in Ohrid, Macedonia (FYROM). Present a paper and/or register:

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • Upcoming IIR events: London

    The 13th Annual Conference of the IOR: Smaller, Colder, Smarter, an IIR co-sponsored event, will be held in London on November 15, 2006. Check out the programme and register: www.ior.org.uk...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • Upcoming IIR events: Belgrade

    International Conference on Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning, an IIR-co-sponsored conference, will be held on December 6-8, 2006 in Belgrade, Serbia. Consult the programme:

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • International activities

    The IIR must play a visible role at various international events. As an intergovernmental organization, the IIR will participate in the coming major international events organized by the United Nations: - the 18th Meeting of the Parties (MOP-18)...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • New IIR members

    The IIR welcomes the following new members: Corporate members - A2 Inc, New York, USA - Grasso Products BV, s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands - Hoshizaki Electric Co. Ltd, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan - Parasense Ltd, Gloucester, United Kingdom...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • Briefs: Robert Heap

    Robert Heap, President of the IIR Science and Technology Council, has won the famous Cooling Industry Gold Award. He was rewarded for his "enormous contribution to the industry's development" thanks to "his work on heat pumps, energy efficiency...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • Briefs: Obituary

    Dr P. Ole Fanger, Senior Professor at the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy at the Technical University of Denmark, died on September 18, 2006, at the age of 72. He was considered as the world's leading expert on the effect of...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/15
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  • Editorial by Didier Coulomb

    Energy is one of the main strategic challenges of this century, both in terms of the impact of energy consumption on the environment (greenhouse effect) and above all in terms of the risk of shortages with respect to our society's needs (limited...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/14
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  • Conferences: Prague

    CryoPrague brought together Cryogenics (one of a series of IIR conferences), ICEC 21 (International Cryogenic Engineering Conference 21) and the International Cryogenic Material Conference (ICMC 2006) for the first time in July 2006. CryoPrague...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/14
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  • Conferences: Dinan

    The 7th IIR Conference on Phase-Change Materials and Slurries for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning took place in Dinan, France, on September 13-15, 2006. Seventy-six participants from 14 countries attended this conference. Presentations dealt...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/14
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  • Conferences: Casta Papiernicka

    Compressors 2006, an IIR conference held in Casta Papiernicka on September 27-29, 2006 was as successful as the previous one in 2004: 170 attendees from 17 countries and 50 papers. A meeting of IIR Commissions B1 and B2 was held. Manufacturers and...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/14
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  • Conferences: Purdue

    The 18th International Compressor Engineering Conference and the 11th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference took place in Purdue, USA on July 17-20, 2006. 523 persons from 33 countries attended these conferences. The overall...

    • Publication date : 2006/11/14
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  • Conferences: Perugia

    Solar Heating and Cooling, an IIR-co-sponsored event, was held in Perugia, Italy, on September 14, 2006: 106 participants from 12 countries attended and 40 papers covering many aspects of solar technology were presented.

    • Publication date : 2006/11/14
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  • Editorial by Didier Coulomb

    The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) publishes two journals and a newsletter. This editorial focuses on the objectives of these publications that are changing fast in the case of two of them, thanks to new information technologies....

    • Publication date : 2006/07/26
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  • The International Journal of Refrigeration (IJR)

    The IJR is the most important scientific journal in the field of refrigeration technology. It is a co-publication of Elsevier and the IIR. Eight issues are published each year, with over 15 articles per issue. Certain issues are totally or...

    • Publication date : 2006/07/26
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