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Heat Pump Refrigerants for Sustainable Future
- Recently Released Issue of Heat Pump Centre Newsletter Heat pumps are a key technology in reducing CO2 emissions. However, most residential heat pumps presently use hydrofluorocarbons(HFCs)or hydrochlorofluorocarbons(HCFCs) as refrigerant, which have various degrees of global warming potential (GWP), from low to very high. Combating climate change calls for heat pumps with low greenhouse ...
Fuerda Holds First Sales Meeting with Carrier
Shandong Fuerda Air-conditioner Equipment held its 2012 national sales meeting at the Ramada Hotel Wujiaochang Shanghai. About 200 distributors have attended the meeting. Wang Fuming, chairman ...
Energy Efficient Solar Water Heating Systems to be Standardi
The ‘Minimum allowable values of energy efficiency and energy efficiency grades for domestic solar water heating systems’ was recently approved by the relevant national agency and will be implemented during the 9th China (Changsha) Exhibition of Solar-Energy Products to be held on March, 15, 2012. The drafting of the standard was led by the National Development and Reform Commission, China ...
China Heat Pump Industrial Alliance Council Founded
The Heat Pump Industrial Alliance Council of the China Energy-saving Association held its founding ceremony at the National People’s Congress Conference Center on December 8, 2011. With the adv...
Panasonic Targets Rural Market
The director of Panasonic Appliances Air-Conditioning (Guangzhou) sales department said that the share of inverter air conditioners in the Chinese market would increase in 2012 and lead to fiercer com...
TCL Increases Net Profit by 120% in 2011
According to the 2011 performance report from TCL released on January 4, 2012, the company’s net profit in 2011 is estimated to be between RMB 950 million and 1.1 billion (US$ 150 - 175 million), an i...
China Refrigeration
The 23rd International Exhibition for Refrigeration, Air-conditioning, Heating and Ventilation, Frozen Food Processing, Packaging and Storage will be held on April 11-13, in New China International Ex...
Gree Develops Large Centrifugal Chiller with Built-in DC Inv
- Expanded Cooling Capacity up to 1,400 RT China-based Gree recently announced that it had developed a series of high efficiency centrifugal chillers adopting an inverter-driven DC permanent ma...
Haier Establishes Asian HQ in Japan, Continues 2-Brand Strat
Feb 20, 2012 Appliance giant Haier Group will establish its Asian headquarters in Osaka, Japan, along with two R&D centers in Tokyo and Kyoto., and will continue growing the Aqua appliance brand i...
Home appliance mkt poised to regain momentum in H2
2012-02-14 By Zhuang Guangping After the termination of incentive policies for the home appliance industry, market sales have slipped significantly. According to the monitoring statistics of A...
China's HVAC&R sector: temporary downturn but will recover s
2012-02-14 China Household Electrical Appliances Association released the latest output, sales and exports numbers of China’s HVAC&R sector. Although the sales of refrigerators, freezers and air-c...
China: Growing market for CO2 refrigeration
14 February 2012 As one of the largest HCFC consumption countries, China faces a tough task to reduce HCFC. Some companies have now initiated research and development programmes on CO2 refrigeration. ...
