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ASERCOM celebrates 25 years at convention
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ore than 80 participants attended ASERCOM’s annual meeting in Brussels on 13th January, to network and exchange ideas. Along with lectures from association experts, ASERCOM used the event to hold its first open forum on topics including EU regulations, energy efficiency and further education. This year’s convention was again dominated by current challenges facing the refrigeration and air conditioning industry. Claude Blanc, president of the association, said: ‘We are still seeing the need to educate our sector about new regulations and directives. It is our responsibility to make sure that everyone working in the refrigeration and air conditioning industry knows the standards they have to meet. In order to do this, we are going to publish new guidelines and statements this year and expand our cooperation with other international associations.” Moderated by Marco Masini, coo of Italian group Assofrigoristi, representatives from industry and politics discussed EU regulations, energy efficiency and the importance of advanced development in the industry. Didier Coulomb, director of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), said: ‘The European Union is a global vanguard. The rest of the world looks to us for guidance. The challenges that we currently face represent what is in store for everyone else.”
In spite of its position as vanguard, however, the EU is not immune to criticism. “The EU sometimes tends toward overregulation. We have to look at the big picture, like the construction sector, and not dwell on details, like small individual parts of heat pumps,” said Thomas Nowak, general secretary of the European Heat Pump Association.
As a policy officer for the European Commission, Davide Polverini represented the legislative branch and asked audience and fellow panellists for
the understanding that the ecodesign legislation, like any complex structure, must be built regulation by regulation, in order to be as robust as possible, without being considered as too intrusive by industry and consumers. Wolfgang Zaremski, VDKF president, discussed the need to promote the exchange of information within the industry and with the customer. Rainer Grosse-Kracht, cto at Bitzer and ASERCOM board member, agreed. Stephen Yurek, ceo of AHRI, complained about lack of foresight in the industry, in light of current developments in global politics. “As associations, it is too often in our nature to look inwards. We need to remember that all of these rules and regulations have an economic impact on our customers.”
The panel discussion was followed by eight presentations from the members. In honour of the 25th anniversary, Hermann Renz, senior delegate at ASERCOM, took visitors back in time to the year the firm was established and looked at all the association’s most important milestones.
Regis Leportier, chairman of the Steering Committee, provided a forecast for ASERCOM’s upcoming recommendation on the future selection of refrigerants, to be released in the middle of the year.
Dr Christian Ellwein gave an update from the association’s newest working group - The Internet of Things task force. Other presentations were made by Dina Köpken John Gibson, Wolfgang Zaremski and Heinz Jürgensen. A ceremonial dinner was held on the eve of the event with the presentation of the golden ASERCOM award. The four recipients this year were Dina Köpke, ASERCOM Working Groups delegate, Christian Desjardins, ASERCOM senior delegate, Wolfgang Zaremski, convener of the market surveillance Working Group and Stephen Yurek, president and ceo of the AHRI partner association.
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