7 Feb 2018
1 March 2018
Arden Hotel, Birmingham
CO2, one of the first British patented refrigerants, is having a revival due to the phasing out of more environmentally harmful refrigerants, and the interest in CO2 hot water pumps is increasing. With success on foreign markets, including Japan, could this be a viable alternative for the UK? 
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