Europe
New Year’s Resolutions from Global Association Leaders--ASER
Wolfgang Zaremski, president of the Association of European Refrigeration Component Manufacturers (ASERCOM) The year 2018 was very busy for ASERCOM. The challenges facing our industry demanded a larg...
New Year’s Resolutions from Global Association Leaders--APIC
Dmitry Kuzin, executive director of the Association of Professional Companies in the Climate Industry (APIC, Russia) In 2018, the share of Russian companies and representative offices in Russia of fo...
New Year’s Resolutions from Global Association Leaders--AREA
Marco Buoni, president of the Air conditioning and Refrigeration European Association(AREA) We are the top European association of air conditioning and refrigeration contractors and we act as a glo...
New Year’s Resolutions from Global Association Leaders--AFEC
Pilar Budi, director general of Asociacion de Fabricantes de Equipos de Climatizacion (AFEC, Spain) AFEC, the Spanish air conditioning equipment manufacturers association, has held many impor...
CAREL DC Inverter Technology
CAREL has been focusing for years on the benefits of direct current (DC) inverter technology. CAREL offers decades of experience with this type of technology in complete and integrated solutions, a fu...
EUROPE--Eastern Europe
The Eastern European market grew by about 10% in 2018. The market performed well in the first half of the year but slowed down in the second half. The main reason is that the temperature rose in the e...
EUROPE--Germany
Northern Germany has had quite hot weather this year, and the German market grew by 10% in 2018. With strong economic support, the German PAC market has grown by 7%. Air conditioning has been slow ...
EUROPE--France
The summer in France was very hot in 2018. The RAC market increased by around 8% and the PAC market grew by 5%. Daikin, Fujitsu General, and Mitsubishi Electric are leading the RAC and PAC market i...
EUROPE--United Kingdom
The United Kingdom had a hot summer in 2018. Shipments of RACs went very smoothly, and sales increased by 12%. Demand increased from May to July, and many manufacturers have cleared their inventory. ...
EUROPE--Russia
Russian RAC and PAC sales were both down by 10% from the previous year, at 934,000 units and 52,000 units respectively. This year, some parts of southern Russia experienced hot weather, but tempera...
EUROPE--Turkey
In the early summer of this year, due to the depreciation of the Turkish lira since the beginning of the year, the commodity prices and electricity costs have risen. The un- stable weather, cool summe...
EUROPE--Greece
The summer weather was not good. Greece had a lot of rain in June and July, and demand for air conditioners was greatly reduced. It only grew in August. The RAC market fell by about 10%. The economic conditions in Greece improved in 2018 compared with 2017, with GDP growth rate of 3-4%. Some commercial facilities are under construction, and PAC sales have increased by 10%. Fujitsu General and i...
