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8.2 China Compressor Market 2012
The Chinese economy continued to slow in the first 3 quarters of 2012, which resulted in decreased compressor sales compared with the same period in 2011. However, the economy began to increase in the...
Inverter Rotary Compressors Show Signs of Recovery
In November 2012, the sales of inverter rotary compressors showed the first sign of recovery since June 2012, with a total sales volume of 2.98 million, a 7% year-on-year growth. Enterprises such as Landa, Mitsubishi Electric, Highly, Rechi and Sanyo saw their sales volumes increased year on year. With the approaching transition and upgrading of inverter products, there will be potentials for furt...
New High-efficiency RAC List Announced
The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have jointly reviewed the application report and related materials of promoting high efficiency and energy-saving room air conditioners that were submitted by regional governments. A new batch of the list for high efficiency room air conditioners has been announced. The ...
Highly Launches Twin-rotary Compressor for Heat Pump
In 2012, Highly launched its new 3-hp twin-rotary compressor with R417A for heat pump. By this addition, Highly now expanded the range of its compressors: up to 2-hp range for residential applications...
Absorption Chillers Take 30% in Tianjin
Absorption chillers have taken a 30% market share in Tianjin. Last year, Tianjin carried out a relocation project to leverage exhaust heat from the No. 1 Power Plant to conduct retrofits for dozens of buildings in the Xiao Bailou Area. The key feature of absorption chillers is to adopt primary energy or industrial exhaust heat for refrigeration or heating, which could directly reduce power ...
Zhejiang Commercial Machinery Factory to Produce R32 Compres
The HCFC substitute project applied by the Zhejiang Commercial Machinery Factory has been approved by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, receiving a fund of more than US$ 1.6 million from the Multilateral Fund for Implementation of the Montreal Protocol. The Zhejiang Commercial Machinery Factory has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Enviro...
China Commences First Stage of HCFC Phasedown Plan
China’s industrial and commercial air conditioning and refrigeration industry enters the first stage of the HCFC phase-down management plan. On December 12, 2012, four enterprises, including Gree and Dunan, received a grant of US$ 18.05 million to renovate 10 production lines and reduce 3,064 tons of HCFC-22. HCFC-22 is the most widely and frequently used refrigerant in China. In July 2011,...
Emerson to Produce Copeland Scroll Fusion Compressors in Chi
Emerson Climate Technologies recently announced the local production release of the Copeland Scroll Fusion semi-hermetic scroll compressor at its Shenyang plant in China. Supported by the power...
Multistack Exports to Australia
From December 2 to 5, 2012, customers from DunnAir (Australia) conducted performance test and quality inspection over the first batch of 92- unit water-source heat pump chillers manufactured by Multis...
Air Conditioner for Data Centers Sales Grow 18%
According to the latest data in the HVAC market, the sales volume of air conditioners for data centers in the 4th quarter of 2012 has reached 84,000 units, an 18% year-on-year growth. The domestic economy bottomed out in the 3rd quarter of 2012 and showed signs of recovery in the 4th quarter. There were increasing demands in air conditioners for data centers. With more investment in communi...
Air-source Heat Pump Water Heater Promoted in Small Cities
Although air-source heat pump water heaters are still at its initial development stage in China, they have enjoyed fast growth in Southern China, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi. Sales of air-source heat pump water heaters in the third-tier cities are even higher than those in the first-tier cities. There are mainly three reasons that contributed to their hot sales at the third-tier ...
Henan Bingxiong Compressors Rolled Off Production Line
In January 2013, the first refrigerator compressor in Henan Province rolled off production line at Minquan County. The Bingxiong brand refrigerator compressors are independently developed by Henan Bin...
