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Final Rule Establishes Refrigerator Testing
Apr 22, 2014 A final rule from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) amends test procedures for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers. The effective date of the rule is May 21, 2014 and manufacturers will be required to use the amendments made in the rule to rate their products starting October 20, 2014. Full details on this rule can be found in the Federal Regis...
Appliance Category Industrial Output Up 2% in March
Apr 22, 2014 March production of consumer goods in the United States rose 0.7%, and increased at an annual rate of 4.5% in the first quarter, according to data from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The index for consumer durables, which includes appliances, moved up about a quarter of a percent in March. The output of appliances, furniture, and carpeting posted a gain of 2.0%, partially rev...
Mobile Devices Help Boost Home Automation Interest and Aware
22 April 2014 Port Washington, N.Y. -- Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and their ability to connect wirelessly have helped drive interest and awareness of home automation products and services, according to The NPD Group’s Home Automation Study. The study indicates 88 percent of mobile device owners are aware of home automation devices compared to 78 percent of consumers overall. ...
MiTek Acquires Ellis & Watts Global Industries
22 April 2014 Chesterfield, Mo. -- MiTek Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced that it has acquired Ellis & Watts Global Industries. Ellis & Watts engineers, designs, and fabricates highly customized HVAC and other products sold into the nuclear, military, and other industrial end markets. “By offering highly engineered HVAC and other solutions into a wide range of end...
Report Reveals Building Energy Management Software Leaders
22 April 2014 London -- In the global market for building energy management software, six suppliers - Envizi, eSight, IBM, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Verisae - are market leaders, according to independent analyst firm Verdantix. Its benchmark report, Green Quadrant Building Energy Management Software 2014 , compares 14 building energy management applications. The analysis is based on live pr...
Keys to Awareness & Visibility for Your HVACR Business
Apr 22, 2014 When you develop your marketing plan, you have to decide what kind of marketing you want to do. First, let’s not confuse marketing with advertising. With advertising, you develop an ad or...
EU Commission to hold consultations on post-2020 carbon leak
22 April 2014 The European Commission plans to organise three stakeholder meetings to consult on possible carbon leakage provisions under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) after 2020. The first of the meetings will take place on 16 June 2014, with the further meetings tentatively scheduled for July and September. The agenda of the first meeting will be made public in due course. ...
Effective Wireless Solutions for Disaster Prevention as a Te
Apr 21, 2014 Among the Asian countries, Indonesia is particularly prone to earthquakes and tsunamis with its location situated along the edges of the Pacific, Eurasian and Australian tectonic plates. ...
63 mm drive with integrated control electronics
Range of modules for easy confi guration of modern EC drives expanded High efficiency is only possible when all components are perfectly matched. This is especially true for the right selection and de...
Ingersoll Rand Collaborates with IRI to Develop Sustainabili
Arlington, VA and Davidson, N.C., April 21, 2014 -- Sustainability and new product development are becoming increasingly interrelated as the former gains prominence in today’s business landscape. Organizations are seeking methods for determining how to make products more sustainable as access to resources become constrained. To address this challenge, Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating com...
