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Alliance Petitions EPA for Tighter Restrictions on HFCs
Feb 21, 2014 Arlington, Va. -- The Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy has submitted a petition for rulemaking to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that seeks to include HFCs under the provisions of Title VI, Section 608 of the Clean Air Act intended to reduce refrigerant gas emissions. Including HFCs under Section 608 would reduce the emissions of these refrigerants that prov...
Honeywell’s Brad Paine Named a 2014 40 Under 40 Honoree
Feb 21, 2014 Honeywell’s Brad Paine was named one of Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. Paine is the director of product marketing in Honeywell’s Environmental & Combustion Contr...
Mitsubishi Electric Unveils New Slim ZR PACs
Beginning on May 1, Mitsubishi Electric will release its new Slim ZR series packaged air conditioners (PACs) for store/office use -covering 311 models with 9 types of indoor unit -having attained the ...
Fujitsu General Releases Residential Multi ACs for Chinese M
In January, Fujitsu General released new multi inverter air conditioners in its Airstage J-IIS series (11.2/14.0/15.1 kW) having realized the energy label class I energy saving performance (the highes...
Yanmar and Hitachi Team up for Cogeneration System Sales
Aiming to expand the use of smallscale gas engine cogeneration systems in Kansai region, Yanmar Energy System and Hitachi Appliances began teaming up from February 1 to sell Hitachi Appliances’ small gas absorption chiller-heater utilizing waste gas Genelink Mini units that perform space cooling by utilizing rejected heat from Yanmar Energy System’s Micro Cogeneration systems. Since the Eas...
Toshiba Carrier China Factory Put into Operation
On January 17, Toshiba Carrier held a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new factory of Toshiba Carrier Air Conditioning (China) (TCAC) established within the Hangzhou Economic and Technological De...
Air-source Heat Pump Waterless Floor Heating Passes Authenti
Three enterprises in Henan Province including Ruibang Environmental Science and Technology have collaborated to develop air-source heat pump waterless floor heating system. Compared with traditional a...
Sales of Residential Central ACs Estimated to be RMB 20 Bill
Data shows that China’s interior equipment market grew by 10.8% to reach RMB 1,220 billion in 2012, of which the market of residential central air conditioners amounted to RMB 17.5 billion. Since the ...
Revision of Air Purifier National Standard
The work on the revision of the national standard of air purifiers started on January 13, 2014. The draft has been completed and is undergoing test and verifications, as well as comparative analyses b...
Sales of Air Purifiers Grow by 4-folds in Chengdu in 2013
Sales of health care household electrical appliances enjoyed booming growth in 2013. According to statistics from a Chinese online shop, JD.com, sales volume of health care household electrical applia...
