ACR News Awards 2025 winners revealed T
he ACR News Awards 2025 celebrated excellence within the ACR industry at a lively awards evening on 10 April at the
Grand Connaught rooms, hosted by BBC sports presenter Mike Bushell. Mitsubishi Electric was recognised as Training
Provider of the Year and its Industry Initiative of the Year featured its report ‘Heat Pumps – The Financial Tipping Point’. The Institute of Refrigeration earned the
Training/Mentoring Initiative of the Year award for its IOR STEM Toolkit, which promotes educational engagement in refrigeration. Stephen Gill received the Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Award, and Laura McKeown of Climalife was highly commended.
The ACR News Awards 2025 winners.
Refrigeration Condensing Units (Refrigeration Product of the Year). Community recognition went to GEA Heating and Refrigeration Technologies for its initiative ‘Mission Together: Inspiring Team Work, Driving Change’.
L-r: Lynn Sencicle and Steve Bennion.
Product awards were presented to Humidity Solutions for its Neptronic SKH4 (Humidity Control Product of the Year) and Panasonic Heating & Cooling Solutions for its 20hp Coldchain
Carrier Solutions UK was awarded Air Conditioning Product of the Year for the Toshiba RBC-MTSC1 Mini Touchscreen Room Controller, while Testo’s 565i Smart Vacuum Pump was highly commended in the same category. BREng/EBA Climate were recognised in the project categories for their work on the Tingley Garden Centre and in the Air Conditioning Project of the Year. Heronhill and Dawson Group received the Humidity Control Project of the Year award for their Environmental
Meet the Judges
EDITA SZUKETIOVA Edita is an associate
member of the IOR and a STEM Ambassador. She works as a proposal engineer at Cotswold Energy Group. She completed her master’s in Building Services Engineering at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. She moved to the UK and became a CAD designer at FlaktGroup (GEA), where she designed close control units. After seven years, Edita transitioned to West
Mercia Air Conditioning, where she gained estimating experience. In 2022, she joined Arctic Circle, a renewables refrigeration company, as a
design engineer and moved to Vital Energi as a development engineer in 2023. Judged Categories: Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Accessories, Heat Pumps, Training, CSR, People/ Business
KEVIN GLASS A past president of the
Institute of Refrigeration (IOR), Kevin’s wide-ranging career has spanned technical,
management, and latterly senior leadership roles, much of it with leading compressor specialist Bitzer. He gained City & Guilds qualifi cations followed by experience in technical sales at APV
Hall Commercial, where he was responsible for Bitzer and Fincoil. Kevin’s area of expertise expanded with the addition of technical responsibility for Bristol compressors, Friga-Bohn coolers and condensers and SWEP plate heat exchangers. Following Bitzer’s acquisition of the company, Kevin was promoted to engineering manager of Bitzer UK in 1997, spearheading the development of pack building and manufacture of bespoke condensing units, before becoming MD in 2011. Kevin was elected IOR president and has served on the IOR’s Board of Trustees and Membership Committee.
Judged Categories: Air Conditioning, Accessories, Heat Pumps, Training, Humidity, People/Business
Mike Bushell.
Control Test Chamber project. Customer excellence awards were presented to Roland Adap and Ben Aronin of Humidity Solutions for Customer Service Team/Individual of the Year, and in the fi nale, Lisa Waters was honoured with the Alan Moor Award, recognising her signifi cant contributions. The evening concluded with networking and dancing at the after-party.
22 May 2025
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