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R32 in the Limelight in Japan
This fall, leading air conditioner manufacturers in Japan have announced a series of new-model room air conditioners (RACs) that use R32 refrigerant. What is behind this sudden burst of activity in R3...
Mitsubishi Electric Opens Training Center in Spain
Mitsubishi Electric opened a training center for its air conditioning and heating (air-to-water) business in Madrid, Spain on July, 2013. Located in the center part of Madrid, opening ceremony was led...
Honeywell to Offer Voiceactivated Thermostat
Honeywell introduced its latest connected home innovation: the Wi-Fi smart thermostat with voice control. The new voice technology allows consumers to simply say, “Hello, thermostat,” to activate and ...
Global Thermostat Shipment to Reach 5.9 Million Units by 201
According to the latest IMS Research report, the global shipment of remote control thermostats, through which consumers can control the room temperature using smart phones or tablet computers, is expe...
Arkema to Construct Production Plant for HFO- 1234yf
Arkema announced that it is moving forward with the construction of a 1234yf low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant gas production plant with an anticipated start-up in 2016. Forane 1234yf refrigerant gas will serve the future needs and satisfy regulations in the global automotive mobile air conditioning industry. As background, the EU Mobile Air Conditioning Directive bans the use ...
Danfoss Turbocor Releases TG310 Compressor with HFO-1234ze
Danfoss Turbocor Compressors announces the production and sales release of the new TG310 compressor, which utilizes the ultra-low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant HFO-1234ze(E). The T...
ASERCOM Statement to F-gas Review
The Association of European Refrigeration Component Manufacturers (ASERCOM) welcomes and supports the target of greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction. However, ASERCOM stresses the need to adopt a holistic approach for evaluating suitable refrigerant alternatives. Direct global warming potential (GWP) of refrigerants is an important criterion, but safety, liability, energy efficiency and ...
Honeywell Solstice zd Receives VOC-Exempt Status from EPA
Honeywell announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added Solstice zd refrigerant, also known as 1233zd, to the list of materials exempted from volatile organic compound (VOC) ...
Can a Big Automaker Negate EU MAC Directive?
At the end of August 2013, France’s highest administrative court temporarily suspended the ban on German automaker Daimler’s sales of Mercedes- Benz vehicles that use R134abased air conditioning syste...
GMCC -- Brand of Competitiveness
As the epitome of China’s fast economic development, Guangdong Meizhi Compressor (GMCC) has grown into the world’s largest manufacturer of air conditioner rotary compressors in less than two decades....
