China

2013.03.20

Aluminum Fan Coil Project Taking Place in Shanghai

The ‘Replacing copper fan coil with aluminum’ project has gone into high gear and full-scale production of aluminum fan coil has begun in Shanghai. At present, the Shanghai Aluminum Trade Association (SATA) and Shanghai Air- Conditioning & Refrigeration Institute (SARI) are working on the plan to replace 100,000 units of copper fan coils with aluminum ones. SATA established the c...

2013.03.18

AC Market in 2013 Expected to Expand by 8%

The sales season of air conditioners is coming after the Spring Festival of 2013. Suning recently published the ‘2013 China Air Conditioner Industry White Paper,’ in which it predicts the following tr...

2013.03.21

Carrier DC Inverter VRF Enters into Southwestern Market

In 2012, Carrier’s DC inverter VRF enjoyed hot sales in Southwestern China market, winning the projects of the Guizhou Zunyi Court, Chongqing Xiushan Hospital and the Chongqing China Railway Fen...

2013.03.21

McQuay Produces MAC-E Inverter Air-cooled Modular Chiller

In January 2013, McQuay’s MAC-E inverter air-cooled modular chiller was launched. This product has been certified as having Grade 1 energy efficiency, with an IPLV as high as 4.36 and over 20% more en...

2013.03.21

Changhong Unveils Voice-controlled Smart AC

During the 46th International Consumer Electronics Show held recently, Changhong revealed a number of newly-developed smart products and received warm accolade from visitors. During the show, C...

2013.03.15

Gree Aiming to Achieve RMB 200 Billion Sales in 5 Years

Harvard Business Review announced the world’s top 100 CEOs. Among them is a Chinese woman Dong Mingzhu from Gree who ranks 98th. Under her leadership, Gree has achieved sales value of over RMB 100 bil...

2013.03.16

Carrier to Install Aqua- Force 30XW for Hangzhou Metro

Carrier China announced that it will install the latest HVAC systems on Hangzhou Metro’s Line No.2, which is part of its urban rail transit network. This project includes 79 units of Aqua-Force 30XW s...

2013.03.14

Galanz Expands AC Compressor Production Capacity

The phase II project of Galanz’s air conditioner compressor production line started formal operation on January 28. Equipped with world-class facilities, the total investment of the phase II pro...

2013.03.26

BCIA: 'BEMs data key to energy management'

Speakers at the Ecobuild 2013 ‘Buildings in use’ seminar have stressed the use of data from building energy management systems (BEMS) to assist energy-reduction strategies. 25 March 2013 Ian Ellis, president of the Building Controls Industry Association (BCIA), chaired the opening session on building controls and energy management. In his presentation, Mr Ellis said: “BEMS are not a ...

2013.03.20

Subsidy List for Unitary AC and Chiller Announced

On February 19, the second list of unitary air conditioners and chillers for the ‘Energy-saving Products Waste Management Project’ was announced. Only 6 enterprises were included in the subsidy list with few product models: Midea, Euroklimat, Tica, Yileng Carrier, McQuay and DunAn. Twenty nine models of unitary air conditioners were included, along with 23 models of chillers.cialiscialislevitraord...

2013.03.15

Electronic Expansion Valve Grows by 26%

As impacted by the poor macro-economic climate index and state housing boom index, as well as gloomy global economy in the first three quarters of 2012, the domestic sales volume of air conditioner motor just reached 187.67 million units, a 2% year-on-year decline. However, electronic expansion valves for inverter air conditioners bucked the trend with a year-on-year growth of 26%.cialiscialislevi...

2013.03.20

Ground-source Heat Pump Assists Central Heating in Shanghai

Up to now, there have been over 500 projects in Shanghai utilizing ground-source heat pump systems, covering office buildings, commercial buildings, libraries, villas and apartments. Eleven projects, including the Shanghai Expo and the Pudong International Financial Square, all adopted ground-source heat pump air conditioning systems that are supplied by shallow geothermal energy. As the low...