energy_efficiency

Las Vegas – September 11, 2026 -- TOSOT has expanded its light commercial HVAC lineup with three new indoor unit configurations -- Floor/Ceiling, Concealed Ducted, and Ceiling Cassette -- under the Aoraki Light Commercial Series, giving contractors added installation flexibility across retail, restaurant, and office projects.

New systems target different installation constraints across commercial spaces

The Aoraki lineup is ENERGY STAR certified and rated for cooling up to 140°F and heating down to -40°F. All three configurations use R32 refrigerant and share low-voltage startup, anti-freeze protection, and intelligent defrost features. Select models reach efficiency ratings up to 24 SEER2.

York, Pa. – September 10, 2026 -- Air Dynamics Industrial Systems Corporation is pushing manufacturers to recover energy already generated inside their facilities rather than purchasing new equipment to boost efficiency.

Company shifts focus from single exhaust stacks to full facility energy flow

"We don't want to look at one exhaust stack or one piece of equipment in isolation," said Dan Lehman, President of Air Dynamics Industrial Systems Corporation. The engineering firm evaluates heated exhaust air, process air, equipment heat, hot process streams, compressed-air systems and ventilation as potential recovery sources.

Antwerp – September 07, 2026 -- Skyven Technologies said its Arcturus industrial heat pump demonstration center in Texas has achieved a sustained coefficient of performance (COP) of 8.0, a gain of more than 20% over the 6.5 COP recorded at commissioning and above the target set in the company's original roadmap.

Arcturus surpasses its own commissioning benchmark through design and control upgrades

Skyven attributed the jump to improvements in system design, control algorithms and integration engineering at the Texas facility. The result confirms the ceiling performance of the Arcturus product line, which the company tailors to individual client sites, balancing COP against required temperature lift. Across its range, Arcturus delivers temperature increases of 38°C to 185°C, with corresponding COPs from 8.0 down to 2.0.

Espoo, Finland – September 03, 2026 -- Valmet will deliver a flue gas condensing plant to Helen's Salmisaari K6 pellet heating plant in Helsinki, enabling the energy company to recover additional heat from flue gases and boost district heating output without increasing biomass fuel consumption.

Order was booked in Valmet's second-quarter 2026 intake, with startup set for second half of 2027

The contract, whose value was not disclosed, was included in Valmet's orders received for Q2 2026. The flue gas condensing plant is scheduled to start operations during the second half of 2027, completing the Salmisaari K6 and K7 heating plant complex previously supplied by Valmet.

NINGBO, China -- September 01, 2026 -- Ningbo Longwell Electric Technology Co., Ltd. (LONGWELL) said its LWBE3G plug-fan platform cut CRAH fan energy consumption by 38% in a data center cooling deployment completed with a top-3 global precision cooling OEM. The Chinese EC fan and motor manufacturer released its AI-Era Data Center Cooling Pack on Aug. 31, 2026. LONGWELL delivered 12 engineering samples in 35 days and moved from specification lock to mass production in 90 days, compared with a 14-month development period plus a six-month ramp quoted by an incumbent European supplier for the same program.