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Honeywell’s Shane Tedjarati Discusses “Becoming The Chinese
Jan 23, 2013 Honeywell President of High Growth Regions Shane Tedjarati appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek China’s recent issue, discussing how China’s “Twelfth Five-year Plan” is related to Honeywell...
Danfoss Launches CH290 Scroll Compressor
Danfoss has launched its new CH290 scroll compressor with cooling capacity of 25 hp tailor-made for the China market. This product is applicable to large roof top and modular chillers boasting lower o...
Haier Devotes Efforts to Develop European Market
The Haier Group has announced that its subsidiary will be opened in Warsaw, Poland. This strategy will help increase Haier’s market share and solve issues in logistics and after-sales services. It is ...
Energy Efficiency Value of Inverter ACs to Increase to 3.9
The amendment of the ‘Minimum allowable value of energy efficiency and energy efficiency grade for inverter air conditioners has been finished and has entered into the approval process. It is expected that this standard will be implemented in the middle of 2013. According to Jianhong Cheng, researcher from the China National Institute of Standardization and leader of the draft working group...
Beijing Initiates Third Batch of Office Energy Saving Retrof
A staff from the resources and environment department of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform stated that Beijing initiated the third batch of energy-saving retrofits for 30 offices at 29 municipal government institutions. This retrofitting is expected to reduce emission of carbon dioxide by 11,000 tons. The energy-saving retrofit covers building enclosure structures, ...
Songz Plans to Invest RMB 700 Million in Automobile ACs
Shanghai Songz Automobile Air Conditioning announced on December 12, 2012 that it planned to launch the ‘New energy automobile air conditioning and control systems project ’ and the ‘Railway and urban...
TCL Joins Dubai Big 5 Exhibition
The ‘Big 5’ 2012 was held in Dubai from November 5 to 8. TCL air conditioner division took part in the exhibition. Big 5 is the largest exhibition for building materials and services in the Middle Eas...
Guangdong to Boost Urban Rail Transportation
According to the recently released ‘12th Five-year Plan of Guangdong Province Hybrid Transportation System Development,’ the province is expected to have 189 key transportation projects during the 12th Five-year Plan period with a total investment of RMB 1.98 trillion. Firstly, RMB 1.07 trillion invested in the project. The focus of the plan is on urban and intercity rail transportation. Guangdong...
AC Manufacturers Agree on HCFC Elimination
On December 12, four air conditioner enterprises in industrial and commercial sectors including Gree signed an agreement on HCFC phase-out. Representatives from the Foreign Cooperation Center of Minis...
Shanghai Floor Heating Market Being Hot
Since 1996, countries taking the lead in floor heating application such as Korea, Germany and Italy have all built up factories in Shanghai to introduce floor heating projects. Specific state-run institutions and enterprises in floor heating manufacturing and installation have also been set up. Floor heating has gradually entered people’s life in terms of its impact and application. In 2001, 98% o...
Shandong Promotes Ground-source Heat Pump
Shandong has constructed an area of 330 million m2 for a solar energy application, and the completed building area for ground-source heat pump applications has reached over 30 million m2, leading the whole nation in technology research and industry development of recyclable energy applications. In terms of solar energy building integration application, Shandong has organized a technical so...
New Year’s Resolutions from Global Association Leaders -- CR
Zhang Zhaohui , secretary general of the China Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Industry Association (CRAA, China) Dear international friends, on the occasion of the coming New Year, I would ...
