The Kirby Apprentice Fund had its fourth intake of apprentices this week at its training academy in Sydney's west.
Kirby provided 15 scholarships to fourth year apprentices from across Australia to strengthen their technical skills.
Apprentices undertake nationally accredited training to gain competency in the safe handling of CO2 and repair and service of CO2 refrigeration systems.
Congratulations to Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke (NSW), Jacob Kuhn (QLD), Jake Dixson (VIC), Amy Murray (QLD), Mitch Hart (VIC), James Russell (VIC), Sean Gregory (VIC), Samuel Appleby (NSW), Janamdeep Singh (SA), Caillean Byrne (QLD), Dylan Clark (QLD), Tyson Iredale (WA) Daniel De Angelis (VIC), Laura Mackenzie-Stirling (TAS), Blair Goldburg (QLD).
Beijer Ref marketing manager Elizabeth Paparo said it was the biggest cohort of technicians to date.
“To enable expansion of the program we also invited industry customers and suppliers to join us and ‘sponsor an apprentice," she said.
"Thanks to the generous support of Copeland, Danfoss, Woolworths, SuperCool Group, Testo, Aspen and Sauerman, we were able to make it the biggest training day to date.”
The program has been expanded to include an additional training day, covering refrigeration control systems, refrigerants and the refrigerants phasedown.
Upon completing their CO2 accreditation the technicians also receive ARC Green Scheme Accreditation sponsored by the Australian Refrigeration Council.