Forschungsrat Kältetechnik e.V.

The German Refrigeration Research Association (FKT) promotes technical and scientific research related to refrigeration and heat pumps, including management of collaborative industrial research projects.FKT’s mission is to promote refrigeration technology through technical-scientific research.The German Refrigeration Research Association connects representatives from industry with research institutions.

In particular, FKT covers research and development in the fields of:industrial refrigeration, building air conditioning, commercial refrigeration, domestic refrigeration, transport refrigeration, heat pump technology and cryogenics.

The German Refrigeration Research Association allocates research contracts to institutes of universities and technical schools, but also to non-university research institutions.

Research is financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economy Affairs and Climate Action and from the members, either with membership fees or non-financial contributions.

The German Refrigeration Research Association FKT is open to a wide range of industry sectors in order to meet the challenges that the variety of interesting current refrigeration technology topics has to offer.