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AC Price Hikes on the Horizon?
Higher Costs May Hit Consumer Pocketbooks Based on the general structure of room air conditioners (RAC), raw materials costs can be broken down as follows: 30% copper, 45% steel plate (includin...
2010 Sizzled in More Ways than One
— A Review of the 2010 Global AC Market Introduction After the Dubai debt shock of November 2009, a debt crisis erupted in the euro zone in early 2010, causing unforeseen setbacks to the...
Int’l Symposium on New Refrigerants and Environmental Techno
The ninth International Symposium on New Refrigerants and Environmental Technology was held on December 2 and 3 at the Kobe International Conference Center in Kobe, Japan. The symposium was sponsored ...
A Passage to India
The world is increasingly focusing its attention on India and the economic potential of its 1.2 billion people. Japan and India have recently wrapped up negotiations on an economic partnership agreeme...
Chillventa 2010 Focuses on Natural Refrigerants
Chillventa, the International Trade Fair for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Heat Pumps, took place in Nuremberg, Germany from October 13 to 15, 2010. This year’s event excelled with ...
Mitsubishi Electric Launches Next-generation SiC Inverter AC
On August 24, Mitsubishi Electric announced the launch in October of air conditioners equipped with inverters with silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors. These air conditioners will be the first ...
Heat Wave Brings Hot Sales Season
In many countries, 2010 is turning into one of the hottest summers of the last ten years. Regions of Japan have been baking since the end of the rainy season in early July, with the mercury hitting 35...
Comprehensive Judgement Needed for Refrigerant Selection
While measures to mitigate climate change are being debated in international political circles, the HVAC&R industry is facing its own issues, namely mitigating the greenhouse effects of refrigeran...
Honeywell and DuPont Create JV to Manufacture HFO-1234yf
Honeywell and DuPont have announced a manufacturing joint venture to produce HFO-1234yf for use in automotive air conditioning systems. The new refrigerant has 99.7% lower global warming potential (GW...
China Eyeing R32 as R22 Alternative
On April 16, China’s official Xinhua news agency announced that China would enforce a regulation controlling ozone depleting substances from this June (Order of the State Council of the People’s Repub...
Road to a Green Revolution
Businesses in natural energy fields, such as solar, wind, and geothermal power, are gaining increasingly high profiles in many countries and regions around the world. In the United States, President ...
Toshiba-Carrier Brand Launched in North America
Offering High Efficiency Duct-Free Inverter Heat Pump Products ? On March 8 at the ACCA Conference and Indoor Air Expo held at the Tampa Convention Center in Florida, the United States, Carrier Corpor...
