JARN News
GEA Appoints Kai Becker CEO of its Refrigeration Technologie
Kai Becker took over as CEO of GEA’s Refrigeration Technologies Division as of February 1, 2021. “In Kai Becker, we have an experienced manager who has successfully and continuously ser...
Compressors 2021 Streamed Online for the First Time
Compressors 2021, the 10th event in this renowned series of conferences on compressors and coolants, staged in Bratislava, Slovakia, was streamed online for the first time on January 13, 2021. The con...
HFC Alternative Refrigerants Update - Examples of New Refrig
Following is a list of examples of new refrigerant development and application in equipment that have been announced at symposiums and seminars in recent years. R463A: Alternative to R410A (R404A); a...
HFC Alternative Refrigerants Update - Proposals for New Refr
With the adoption of the Kigali Amendment, research and development (R&D) on alternatives to HFC refrigerants and new refrigerants by both the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigera...
MHI to Add 80 hp Model to Lineup of C-puzzle Condensing Unit
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration (MHI-AC&R) has developed a large-capacity 80 hp model to add to its series of C-puzzle fluorocarbon-free commercial refrigeration con...
China’s Large-Capacity Scroll Market Expected to Recover in
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the catering, tourism, retail, and other industries have been damaged, and many projects slowed down or ground to a halt, so China’s commercial air conditioning mar...
Spanish Residential and Commercial AC Market in 2020
Reported by Asociación de Fabricantes de Equiposde Climatización (AFEC), Spain Economic Situation In 2020, the Spanish economy suffered the biggest downturn in 85 years due to ...
LG Has Innovative Solutions and Is Optimistic about Post-pan
JARN interviewed Steve Scarbrough, senior vice president, Air Conditioning Technologies, LG Electronics USA, to hear about the company’s wide range of air conditioning business. &...
HFC Alternative Refrigerants Update - California’s Regulatio
On December 10, 2020, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved rules on regulating HFCs with high GWP that are used as refrigerant (see the January 2021 regular issue of JARN). In the rules approved by CARB, the upper limits on the GWP of refrigerants used in key refrigeration equipment are as follows. In new refrigeration equipment using refrigerant in excess of 50 pounds (22.7 kg...
HFC Alternative Refrigerants Update - U.S. Rejoins the Paris
This January, almost immediately after Joseph Biden was inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president, he signed an executive order to rejoin the inter-national Paris Agreement on climate change that the pre...
