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Winners will be announced at CCN Live on Thursday, November 12, 2020.
Official launch of leadership awards
THE HVACR LEADERSHIP Awards will be officially launched on May 15, 2020. Check the online launch for all the categories for this year to ensure we
showcase our best talent.
The Leadership Awards are a great way to celebrate industry excellence
and recognise the pioneers, innovators and entrepreneurs of Australia’s HVACR community.
Nominations will open on May 15 and officially close August 31, 2020.
Winners will be announced at CCN Live to be held at the Arts Centre in Melbourne on Thursday, November 12, 2020.
Sponsors include Daikin, Refrigerant Reclaim Australia and Temperzone.
3D printers used to create face masks
THROUGHOUT THE CORONAVIRUS outbreak, Ziehl-Abegg has been busy creating face masks on 3D printers for health care workers, local residents, employees and their families.
Ziehl-Abegg CEO, Peter Fenkl, said both 3D printers have been work- ing overtime at the Künzelsau InVent Development Centre in Germany. The company’s laboratory director, Achim Kärcher, said Ziehl-Abegg
has been using 3D printing technology since 2010.
“The Development Centre already had its second 3D printer by the
following year,” he said.
“The layers are printed at a thickness of 0.16 millimetres. We normal-
ly use this to create prototypes for implementing new ideas from our engineers so we need to be able to trial new shapes quickly and easily.”
The process of creating the protective masks was also quick and easy: the frame is printed, the lens is a foil for an overhead projector, a standard perforator punches the openings, with rubber bands used for fastening.
Fenkl said the medical sector has been part of the company’s normal area of business: for years now with Ziehl-Abegg producing large fans for both operating theatres and quarantine stations.
The company also supplied special fans for Chinese hospitals that were built in the cities of Wuhan, Shandong and Shenzhen within days of their construction.
The process
of creating the protective masks is quick and easy.
Two new appointments at Mitsubishi Electric
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC AUSTRALIA has an- nounced two new appointments which will be based in Sydney at the company’s head office.
In a statement, Mitsubishi Electric Aus- tralia said the changes reflect the ongoing commitment of the company to meet the dy- namic requirements of the business
and its customers.
Ari Grimekis has been promoted to
the role of technical manager and will continue to report to the national product manager, Atesh Mani.
With over 15 years of experience in the HVAC industry, Grimekis is high- ly skilled in HVAC engineering, busi-
ness development, project engineering, and electrical engineering.
As part of his new role, he will oversee multi- ple technology aspects of air conditioning products across multiple categories. This in- cludes managing the technology training
across the country and some inter- national factories to teach internal staff about new and existing units.
He will also continue to provide his high-level expertise on how products should be designed, working closely with both factories on product devel-
Technical manager, Ari Grimekis
opment for the Australian market as well as cus- tomers to discuss their specific needs.
“My aim is to raise the standard of the world class training that we do as a company and fil- ter that through to our sales representatives and external consultants,” Grimekis said.
Arnav Maini has re-joined the Mitsubishi Electric Australia as senior product engineer after gaining two years’ experience with the Mitsubishi Electric UK team.
With over eight years in the industry, Arnav is an experienced product support engineer skilled in HVAC design, CAD and engineering management. In his new role, Maini will provide product support for air conditioning products.
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