JARN News
Preventing Refrigerant Leakage Is Not Easy
Sei Suma, senior advisor, Japan Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News (JARN) Efforts to prevent global warming involve major challenges in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and...
TICA’s Transformation — Focusing on Environment and Energy
TICA is a professional company integrating research and development (R&D), manufacturing, sales, and service in the environment and thermal energy utilization. JARN interviewed Jiang Li, chairman ...
REPowerEU: Joint European Action for Sustainable Energy
Following the invasion of Ukraine, the case for a rapid clean energy transition in the European Union (EU) is stronger than ever. The EU imports 90% of the gas it consumes, with Russia providing aroun...
Carrier to Invest US$ 16 Million in R&D Center of Excellence
On April 4, 2022, Carrier announced a planned US$ 16 million investment to build a Research & Development Center of Excellence for heating, air conditioning and domestic water systems in Villasanta, Italy. The new facility will focus on the development of new innovations to expand Carrier’s sustainable and intelligent solutions, primarily heat pumps, hydrogen boilers and Internet of Thin...
JCI Prepares Channel Partners for DOE 2023 Efficiency Regula
Johnson Controls (JCI) is preparing distributors and contractors for the new U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) appliance standards for residential and commercial equipment, which take effect January 1, 2023. The standards set new minimum heating and cooling efficiency requirements for residential and commercial central air conditioners and heat pumps, as well as commercial gas furnaces. Addi...
Rheem and Ruud Host International Partners in Las Vegas
Rheem and Ruud hosted more than 5,000 key partners from the HVAC industry at the 2022 Pro Partner International Conference from March 7 to 10. The event, held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, was themed ‘Pro Powered’ and spearheaded by Rheem’s Global Air Division. The conference was led by industry experts and spanned two days each for Ruud and Rheem, respectively. The agenda in...
Indian AC Market Shows Vigorous Recovery
In India, the sales volume of air conditioners decreased significantly in 2020 due to the impact of lockdowns associated with the pandemic. However, in 2021, it showed a steady recovery along with imp...
Fujitsu General’s Technology Greatly Reduces Levels of COVID
Fujitsu General confirmed that the ‘Two-stage plasma clean technology’, in collaboration with the Japan Textile Products Quality and Technology Center (QTEC), has a 99.9% reduction effect ...
Corona Launches ReLaLa RACs Including Window-type Adopting R
From early March 2022, Corona successively launched 22 room air conditioner (RAC) models in six series as its 2022 RAC models called ReLaLa. The 2022 ReLaLa models include Z series flagship models, W series models with excellent heating capacity, N series models with a focus on basic performance, cooling-only models, and window-type models. The Z series f lagship models adopt Aqua-drop washing,...
Toshiba Carrier to Release New Air-cooled Heat Pump Chiller
Toshiba Carrier will release new Universal Smart X, Universal Smart X Edge series, and Universal Smart X Edge32 series air-cooled heat pump chiller models in May 2022. The new models now incorporat...
