Useful Links

We offer a number of links to other websites that may be of interest and assistance. However please note that following these links will take you off the Thermofrost Cryo site. Please bookmark us for ease of return.

• FETA - The Federation of Environmental Trade Associations website has a comprehensive listing of useful links to other trade and governmental organizations, as well as its own sections for the BRA (the British Refrigeration Association), HEVAC (the Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Manufacturers Association) and HPA (the Heat Pump Association). Visit them at www.feta.co.uk
• Institute of Refrigeration - The Institute was founded in 1899 as the Cold Storage and Ice Association and is the oldest national society of mechanical refrigeration in the world. In 1944 qualified membership was introduced in order to raise the status of the association and of those engaged in the science and practice of refrigeration, and the present name of the Institution of Refrigeration was adopted. It is the Industry's professional body and learned society where people from every part of the world join together to promote the advancement of refrigeration. Visit them at www.ior.org.uk
• Energy efficiency - The UK Government has a site devoted to energy efficiency. Visit it at The Carbon Trust.
• DEFRA - The UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is involved in various waste regulations that affect our industry.
• European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE) - A broad-based grouping of responsible companies, national associations and European associations active in the European air-conditioning, heat pump and refrigeration industry. It was formed in September 2000 to contribute to the development of effective European policies to reduce green-house gas emissions from the use of refrigerants. Visit them at www.epeeglobal.org
• Register of Companies Competent to Handle Refrigerants (REFCOM) - REFCOM registration is designed for responsible contractors to demonstrate their competence to clients and other interested parties in the safe handling and recovery of refrigerants. Their mission statement is to recognise and safeguard the role of the employer so that they can be encouraged to operate entirely to industry best practice; for them to be environmentally aware and to operate entirely in compliance with current legislation; for their operatives to be suitably trained and competent to carry out their work in accordance with Company procedures. They achieve this by administering the REFCOM scheme, a set of high professional standards recognised by The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Industry Board ACRIB and the RAC Industry. Visit them at www.refcom.org.uk