RAC/PAC
Electrical Appliances Export to Brazil Hits Record High
Benefitted by 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, export volume of household electrical appliances from China to Brazil has seen sharp growth in the first five months this year. According to the data from the General Administration of Customs, from January to May, 906,000 units of air conditioners were exported from China to Brazil, indicating 8.7% year-on-year growth, in addition to 740,000 units of e...
Hisense Accelerates African Market Penetration
With the production base in South Africa, Hisense is expanding its business to African markets in Madagascar, Ghana and Seychelles. Hisense’s South African branch, which is also its headquarters in Africa, set up its export division in March to export products to neighboring countries. The production plant at the Atlantis Industrial Park, Cape Town, South Africa, launched in June 2013, is p...
Domestic Data Center Air Conditioners Develop Rapidly
China’s data center air conditioning market has long been dominated by foreign brands. Industry statistics indicate that the top four foreign enterprises, Emerson, Stulz, Canatal and Schneider, took o...
IPCC Forecasts Boom for Air Conditioning
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sees one of the positive aspects of global warming as an increasing role for air conditioning worldwide. Residential cooling, in particular for middle class households, will grow by 30 times the present level and the electrical load will have risen from 300 TWh to 10,000 TWh by 2100. Source: CIBSE Journal, UKcialiscialislevitraorder generic...
Threshold for Air Conditioning
How do you judge that a new office building will need air conditioning to be written into the specification at the design stage rather than leaving it to future occupants to experience overheating when the only solution then will be costly retrofit and unpredictable results? An attempt to answer the question is made by Swiss Standard SIA 382/1 which uses the EU standard EN 13779 as a basis ...
AC Demand Loses Momentum from Emerging Markets
-- Global Air Conditioner Market Review for First Half of 2014 The same as last year, JARN interviewed leading global manufacturers about trends in the air conditioner market in the first half ...
Hardin Medical Center Upgrades Cut Energy and Operating Cost
Trane to Present “Energy Efficiency Leader Award” to Hardin Medical Center Savannah, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2014 -- Administrators at Hardin Medical Center report that infrastructure improvements to t...
Introducing the 30.5 SEER Ductless Mini-Split HVAC Unit
Mitsubishi Electric’s heating and cooling division has introduced the Hyper-Heating Inverter (H2i) MSZ-FH ductless mini-split, a product the company said is the most energy-efficient heating and cooli...
McQuay's ATS chiller gets Enhanced Capital Allowance
13 August 2014 McQuay’s self-described ‘most advanced chiller’, the, ATS has been approved for Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) eligibility by the Carbon Trust. For a product to be eligible for...
Evaporative cooling tackles 50 deg C heat for Doha football
1 August 2014 Air2O’s new combination system installed in open air fan zone in Doha as trial for cooling the fans at stadiums for 2022 Qatar World Cup Air2O has just installed systems in the Fa...
AHR Expo Seeks Most Innovative New HVACR Products
1 August 2014 WESTPORT, Conn. -- International Exposition Co., producer and manager of the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo), announced that submissions for the 2015 AHR Expo Innovation Awards are now being accepted through Sept. 8, 2014. The awards are presented to companies displaying the most innovative new products at the expo. Sponsored by ASH...
LG Home Appliance, LG Air Conditioning See Lower Quarterly S
Jul 31, 2014 LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced a 165% increase in second-quarter 2014 net profit compared with the second quarter of 2013. The company said it had strong earnings from TV operations a...
