_______________________________________________________________________________________ J & E Hall International

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J & E Hall collaborates with clients to meet their evolving energy and regulatory needs

& E Hall International( J & E Hall) is one of the world’ s oldest industrial refrigeration companies. Managing Director, Andrew Bowden, elaborates:“ Our history dates to 1785 when Mr. John Hall founded his one-man workshop in Dartford, Kent, in the UK. We’ re so ingrained in the local area that there are streets named after employees as well as Mr. Hall’ s portrait on bus stops. We’ re an international industrial refrigeration business. We’ ve used virtually every known refrigerant out there in most known applications, including nuclear. We are currently finishing a four-year project for the Hinckley Nuclear Power Station, and we have also recently won a project for the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station. We’ re known for being able to complete complex projects that other companies might struggle with. We’ ve got different business units ranging from industrial and commercial products to service and maintenance, as well as a research and development facility through which we develop our future technologies.”

Andrew then goes on to explain the significant steps the company has taken in the last five years:“ Changing customer requirements and evolving regulations have been key drivers of innovation over the last five years. This has involved collaborating with our customers to create solutions that reduce energy, improve efficiency, as well as meet the F-gas( fluorinated gas) and PFAS( perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances) regulations. We’ re very pleased that these products will begin to be released this year.

“ The biggest threat to our industry is a lack of skilled people. There is a national shortage of engineers across all profiles, but particularly for refrigeration. Therefore, recruitment represents one of our priorities; so much so that we developed our own training center, which the local mayor opened for us last year. The facility allows us to not only train our own engineers and our own apprentices but also our customers and our distributors as well. We now have several training centers,

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