JARN News
Is Human Happiness the Ultimate Goal of Air Conditioning?
Sei Suma, senior advisor, Japan Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News (JARN) Air conditioning was created to help people escape from the heat and cold, and has evolved to provide greater...
Toshiba Carrier to Launch Smart Cassette GP Series 4-way Cas
Toshiba Carrier will launch its Toshiba-branded Daiseikai Smart Cassette GP, a 4-way cassette indoor unit series for light commercial applications, in May. The newly introduced 4-way cassette indoo...
SMTS2024 – A Large Array of Environmentally Friendly Product
The 58th Supermarket Trade Show 2024 (SMTS2024) was held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture from February 14 to 16, 2024. The exhibition brought together the latest innovations in the food distribu...
Hitachi–Johnson Controls Air Conditioning: Beltless System P
Hitachi–Johnson Controls Air Conditioning has developed a packaged air conditioner (PAC) indoor unit for equipment that uses a beltless system (direct drive system). Shipments will begin in Apri...
ICCC 2024 in Tokyo
The eighth International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain (ICCC 2024) will take place on June 9 to 11, 2024, at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Fo...
Mayekawa Jointly Develops Chillers Used for Semiconductor Ma
Mayekawa and Shinwa Controls have succeeded in jointly developing Oberon, a new type of chiller that is environmentally friendly, and has the world’s highest level of cooling capacity (–70...
Panasonic Delivers Natural Chiller to New Station Building i
Panasonic Heating & Ventilation A/C Company has delivered its Natural Chiller commercial air conditioning absorption chillers to New Nagasaki Station Building that opened recently. The high-effici...
Haier Enters the Japanese RAC Market
On February 14, 2024, Haier Japan Sales held a new product launch event. The company has entered the room air conditioner (RAC) market in Japan, and will be selling the ‘huu’ CS series, an...
Highly Collaborates with Jiaotong University in Developing R
Highly has teamed up with Xi’an Jiaotong University to overcome the technological obstacles of small compressors utilizing refrigerant R290 (propane). The project ‘Development of a smaller-sized and highly efficient room air conditioner-applied rotary compressor using R290 refrigerant’ has been accepted. This is another important achievement in the progress of R290 refrigerant...
2023 RAC Export Volume in China Rises by 4.5% Year on Year
According to customs statistics, December 2023 saw the room air conditioner (RAC) export volume reach 3.63 million units, rising by 14.9% year on year. The total export value came to RMB 3.548 billion (about US$ 493.0 million), increasing by 6.1% year on year. From January to December, RACs have seen a total export volume increase to 48 million units, growing by 4.5% year on year; and the accumula...
