Headline News Volume 618
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eJARN.com Headline News
Date: Feb 25, 2022, Volume 618
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1. Carrier Aims to Regain Primacy in Global AC Market with Stronger VRF Lineups
Carrier Global will acquire a 95% ownership stake in Toshiba Carrier, becoming the largest shareholder of the joint venture (JV) with Toshiba established in 1999, aiming to strengthen its businesses in the variable refrigerant flow (VRF*) and light commercial air conditioning segments.
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2. German HP Market Needs Subsidies for Healthy Growth
In 2021, Germany saw sales of heat pumps reach 154,000, with year-on year growth of 28%, according to joint sales statistics on the heating market from BDH, the German Heating Industry Federation, and BWP, the German Heat Pump Association. One of the factors behind this strong growth is thought to be the heat pump subsidy system implemented by the German government.
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3. China’s VRF Market Grows Explosively in 2021
According to the statistics from aircon.com, China’s VRF market in the first half of 2021 reached about RMB 30 billion (about US$ 4.7 billion), an increase of more than 45% year on year, and more than 30% even compared with the first half of 2019 before the pandemic. For the whole year of 2021, JARN estimates that China’s VRF and mini-VRF market increased by 20% and 30% year on year respectively, based on interviews with China’s major air conditioner and compressor manufacturers.
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4. Use of R290 Equipment Expanding in Supermarkets
Globally, an estimated 2.5 million R290 refrigerated display cases had been installed in supermarkets as of 2019. Europe has been the leader in this trend, but major retail chains in the United States are increasingly following suit. As of 2019, Target, a retail giant, was using R290 cases in more than 1,000 stores, while Whole Foods Market was using them in at least 500 U.S. stores.
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5. Commercialization of Optimal Coupled Control System of Lighting/AC Utilizing Hue-Heat Effect
The hue-heat effect is an effect that enables people to perceive warmth and coolness - heat - by the color - hue - registered by their eyes. People feel cool when they move from a room with warm-colored lighting to a room with cool-colored lighting, and vice versa. Over a three-year period starting in 2017, Doshisha University conducted a demonstration experiment in a research project under the Japanese Research Complex Program with the cooperation of Kimura Kohki, and revealed the quantitative effect of the hue-heat effect for the first time in the world.
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