China
Haier Teams up with Alibaba to Launch Air Purifiers
Haier plans to launch smart air purifiers to remove indoor air pollutants such as formaldehyde and benzene which often take long time to evaporate inside room. To solve this problem, Haier incorporate...
Gree PV Centrifugal Chiller Wins UK Awards
Gree photovoltaic DC inverter centrifugal chiller was awarded in the three categories of the RAC Cooling Industry Award 2015 in the United Kingdom. The award is set to recognize technologies, products...
U.S. Launches Antidumping Probe against HFCs from China
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced on July 16 that it has initiated antidumping duty investigations against imports of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants from China in response to a petition from domestic refrigerant manufacturers. The petition was charged by the American Hydrofluorocarbon Coalition and its members for certain HFC blends and materials used to produce such ble...
Chemours to Add New Refrigerant Production Line in China
Chemours, which became independent from DuPont in July, announced that it is adding a new production line for its Opteon YF (HFO-1234yf) in China. The new line will double its domestic low global warm...
Suning Starts Retailing Mini VRFs
China’s leading chain store brand Nanjing-based Suning announced on July 7 to head into the retail business of Mini VRFs of leading brands such as Midea, Chigo, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. As the air conditioning market becomes mature, personalization and intelligence of air conditioning products will be the main considerations for the next phase of consumption. Due to the strong deman...
Sales Channel of Mini VRFs Diversifies
With the expansion of residential central air conditioning product lines such as mini variable refrigerant flow (mini VRF) systems, sales channels are getting diversified. In addition to conventional ...
Merger of GMCC and Welling Motor
According to Midea Group, it will merge its Compressor Business Unit, Guangdong Meizhi Compressor Company (GMCC), and its Motor Business Unit, Welling Motor, to establish the Device Business Unit, whi...
TICA Accelerates Globalization Strategy
After two decades of development, China’s private company Nanjing TICA Air-Conditioning has expanded its presence in overseas market from merely exporting products to cooperating with multinational co...
Gree Develops Magnetic Bearing Centrifugal Products
China’s magnetic bearing centrifugal chiller market is developing rapidly and set to become the largest market in the world. JARN recently interviewed Huang Hui, vice president of Gree, to hear about ...
Technological Features of Industrial and Commercial Compress
Reported by Ma Guoyuan, professor and head of Department of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, member of Expert Committee of China Refrigeration Expo The Exper...
Emerson’s Inverter Scroll: New Solutions for VRF Manufacture
At China Refrigeration expo (CRH) held in Shanghai in April, JARN interviewed Giovanni Zullo, vice president, Marketing and Planning, Asia, Emerson Climate Technologies, Asia Pacific Headquarters to h...
China’s Rotary Compressor Market Gets Oligarchy
Years of production capacity expansion are pushing the China’s rotary compressor industry into the era of cut-throat competition. In 2015 refrigeration year (RY 2015; end July 2015), the combin...
