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2015.02.22

HARFKO 2015 to Offer HVAC&R Business Chance March 10-13, 201

HARFKO 2015, the 13th Heating, Air-Conditioning, Refrigeration and Fluid Exhibition Korea, will be held from March 10 to 13, 2015, at Kintex exhibition center in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The exhibition is ...

2015.02.14

Green Building Initiative Recognizes ASHRAE’s Green Globes A

Green Building Initiative (GBI), a nonprofit organization committed to accelerating the adoption of sustain-able building practices and providers of the Green Globes rating system, congratulates the A...

2015.02.14

Swep -- High Efficiency and Complete Range of BPHEs for Chil

At the 2015 AHR Expo, Swep launched a new and complete high efficiency product range for chiller applications. This includes a full range of high performance and unique evaporators and condensers that are also climate friendly.   Swep is able to offer various sizes of brazed plated heat exchangers (BPHEs) with different plate geometry and different distribution devices to suit the various chi...

2015.02.12

MHI’s Centrifugal Chiller JV in China Completes Production R

MHI Bingshan Refrigeration (Dalian) (MBRD), a joint venture (JV) dedicated to centrifugal chillers established in 2013 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Dalian Refrigeration (DR) of China, has ...

2015.02.13

Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Ch

Reported by Zhang Yanbin, All View Consulting   According to All View Consulting (AVC), the retail sales volume of room air conditioners (RACs) was 43.9 million units in 2014, rising slightly by ...

2015.02.12

Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Sp

Reported by Jose Ma Ortiz, JARN’s Spain Correspondent   The decline of air conditioner sales in Spain over the last seven years took place in the context of restrictions on public spending to con...

2015.02.08

Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Ch

Reported by Joaquin Gentzch, HVAC&R Consultant Economy   Politically and economically speaking, 2014 was a rather unsettling year in Chile.   The new government, a center-left coalition in which the communist and socialist parties play an important role together with the Christian Democrats, took office in March 2014. A new set of priorities and a new agenda were imposed on the count...

2015.02.09

Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Ru

Reported by Dmitry Kuzin, executive director of the Association of Professional Companies in the Industry of Climate (APIC, Russia)   In 2013, 1.9 million air conditioners were sold to end users in Russia, but only 1.65 million were sold in 2014. For 2015, projected demand is in the range of 1.3 million units. The rea-sons for the sales decline are market saturation and the huge inventory bui...

2015.02.10

Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--In

Reported by Rakesh Kumar, Technical Editor, ISHRAE Journal   India had a mild summer in 2014, especially in April and May. This caused the room air conditioner market to grow at a slow pace. Alt...

2015.02.18

Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II

-- Continued from January Issue   Europe   Conditions in the European market remain challenging. While expanded demand was seen in Germany and the United Kingdom, where the economy is showing recovery, markets in Italy, Spain, and Greece have fallen sharply from their peak. The moderate recovery trend in France is now looking more fragile. Italy’s economy continues to flounder. Turkey, w...