The Association of European Refrigeration Compressor and Controls Manufacturers (ASERCOM) has presented this year’s “ASERCOM Energy Efficiency Award” (10,000 euro), which is granted to outstanding innovative concepts in the field of air conditioning and refrigeration technology (including heat pumps) that contain a high degree of energy efficiency and thus contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases in a significant way.

The award was presented during the ASERCOM + EPEE Symposium at Chillventa by Michael Mueller, Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment. An international jury (Prof. Clodic, France - Prof. Quack, Germany - Prof. van der Ree, Netherlands) selected unanimously the application of the German company ebm-papst for the award 2008. This company - a well known German manufacturer of fans and associated electric motors - introduces now a new range of very efficient axial fans with integrated energy saving motor, e.g. for refrigerated supermarket display cabinets and bottle coolers. According to a speaker of the association, the award competition was again a great success, attracting just as in the past a remarkable number of high quality applications.

The symposium took place a day before the start of the trade fair on the Nuremberg fair grounds. Under the general theme “Energy Efficiency – Environment Protection”, this event, which was for the first time jointly organised by ASERCOM and EPEE, was a prelude to Chillventa. The first part of the symposium was dedicated to political issues and had keynote speakers talking about recently introduced EU directives, as well as regulations currently in the process of discussion. The second half centred on applications in various market segments resulting from the new rules and regulations, reveals the association’s press release.