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Mitsubishi Electric Launches Next-generation SiC Inverter AC
On August 24, Mitsubishi Electric announced the launch in October of air conditioners equipped with inverters with silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors. These air conditioners will be the first ...
Heat Wave Brings Hot Sales Season
In many countries, 2010 is turning into one of the hottest summers of the last ten years. Regions of Japan have been baking since the end of the rainy season in early July, with the mercury hitting 35...
Comprehensive Judgement Needed for Refrigerant Selection
While measures to mitigate climate change are being debated in international political circles, the HVAC&R industry is facing its own issues, namely mitigating the greenhouse effects of refrigeran...
Honeywell and DuPont Create JV to Manufacture HFO-1234yf
Honeywell and DuPont have announced a manufacturing joint venture to produce HFO-1234yf for use in automotive air conditioning systems. The new refrigerant has 99.7% lower global warming potential (GW...
China Eyeing R32 as R22 Alternative
On April 16, China’s official Xinhua news agency announced that China would enforce a regulation controlling ozone depleting substances from this June (Order of the State Council of the People’s Repub...
Road to a Green Revolution
Businesses in natural energy fields, such as solar, wind, and geothermal power, are gaining increasingly high profiles in many countries and regions around the world. In the United States, President ...
Toshiba-Carrier Brand Launched in North America
Offering High Efficiency Duct-Free Inverter Heat Pump Products ? On March 8 at the ACCA Conference and Indoor Air Expo held at the Tampa Convention Center in Florida, the United States, Carrier Corpor...
Warm Breezes from the Southern Florida— 2010 AHR Expo in Orl
The worldwide economic recession sparked by the financial crisis in the United States continues to take a toll on industry. This is especially true in the HVAC&R industry, considered a fairly reliable...
The Sun Will Rise Again — A Review of the 2009 AC Market —
The sharp decrease in sales due to the global economic recession and cool summer in 2009 has caused air conditioner manufacturers to emphasize survival in the most severe financial crisis since the Gr...
China to Step into the Energy-saving Era — New Energy Standa
A new draft of the Chinese national standard, ‘GB 12021.3-2009*: the minimum allowable values of the energy efficiency and energy efficiency grades for room air conditioners (RACs ),’ just passed a te...
