Entries by Christian Droll

Conto Termico 2.0

Since May 2016, a subsidy for fireplaces was granted by the Italian government. The total allowance amounts to 900 million € per year. In order to receive this subsidy as a private individual, an old room heater has to be replaced by a new one. The old room heater has to be brought to a […]

RRF goes “green”

Climate change, limited resources and rising energy prices force to make actions. New environmental regulations from politics and the wish from many companies for more sustainability promote a change for more energy efficient solutions. Modern lighting technology helps to significantly reduce electricity consumption while at the same time improving the lighting quality on a sustained […]

Christmas Action 2016: RRF supports roterkeil.net

In this year´s Christmas campaign the RRF supports the foundation roterkeil.net. Again the RRF-team wanted to be socially involved and supported the foundation roterkeil.net with a donation for the fight against child prostitution. As well as last year we did not want to leave our customers empty-handed and therefore made some self made liqueur for […]

First FlammeVerte Laboratories Meeting

The first official FlammeVerte (FV) Laboratories Meeting was on 23th of June 2016 in Paris at „Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables”. The presentation about FV label, the RoundRobin test between the FV laboratories and the accreditation of the laboratories by Eurovent Certita were big points of the agenda. Also the „Golden Rules Document“ for the FV […]

EFA technical meeting in the RRF in Oberhausen

On February the 4th 2016 interested members of the EFA – European fireplace association met for a technical meeting in the premises of Rhein-Ruhr Feuerstätten Prüfstelle GmbH to discuss different currently technical inquires. The most important topics were: DoP (Declaration of Performance CE-marking: changes starting in 2016 connection requirements for wall duct internal space guideline/type […]