The European Union specifies the legal requirements for chillers in a number of directives. The member states are under obligation to apply these directives as national law. Since 2009, EU Regulation 2009/125 has governed environmentally sound design of products affecting energy consumption. Since 2015, EU Regulation 2015/1095 has governed environmentally sound design of condenser sets and process coolers running at low to medium operating temperature. On 1 January 2018, EU 2016/2281 came into effect to join these regulations. It specifies requirements for refrigeration products and process coolers running at high operating temperatures. This latest regulation defines two performance indicators as a minimum value legally required to be maintained for air-conditioning and process cooling: tier 1 for units delivered as of 1 January 2018 and tier 2 for units delivered as of 1 January 2021. Ensuring compliance with the performance indicators is the responsibility of the manufacturers.
ENGIE Refrigeration’s products comply with the requirements of the EU Regulations perfectly: All of the chillers from the Amonum and Spectrum series (both compliant with EU 2015/1095) and all QUANTUM chillers (EU 2016/2281) not only fulfil tier 1 – all of them already significantly surpass the minimum performance indicators specified for tier 2. This makes the chillers supplied by Lindau refrigeration specialist the most efficient solutions available worldwide.
About ENGIE Refrigeration
ENGIE Refrigeration GmbH specialises in products, solutions and services for economical and energy-efficient refrigeration and heat recovery. The refrigeration specialist plans, manufactures, operates and supervises refrigeration systems, re-cooling plants and system solutions. The company, based in Lindau on Lake Constance, has a nationwide sales and service network in Germany. As part of the ENGIE Group, ENGIE Refrigeration can draw on the support of the structures of a global corporation. The origins of ENGIE Refrigeration go back to the Sulzer Company, which was founded in 1834 and which introduced the world’s first chiller at the 1878 World Fair in Paris. ENGIE Refrigeration GmbH is a member of ENGIE Deutschland. Since June 2016, ENGIE Deutschland has brought together under one roof a number of companies, including ENGIE Deutschland GmbH (formerly Cofely Deutschland GmbH), ENGIE Refrigeration GmbH (formerly Cofely Refrigeration GmbH), ENGIE Deutschland AG, ENGIE Energielösungen GmbH, ENGIE Windpark Betriebs GmbH & Co. KG and H.G.S. GmbH & Co. KG. ENGIE Deutschland, with 30 branch offices and approximately 3,000 employees in Germany, generated sales of around 1.8 billion euros in 2016. The share of sales from ENGIE Refrigeration GmbH – with 285 employees – stood at around 80 million euros.
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