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2014.03.06

Termointer Achieves Positive Growth

Termointer, a Brazilian company specialized in heat exchangers, found that 2013 had a positive balance. “The second half of 2013 showed an increase in the order of 10-15%, generating great expectations for 2014. We increased our participation as suppliers for large companies such as Hitachi, Sodramar, Bosch and Ingersoll Rand. We hope to keep up with this year’s growth in order to invest in new ma...

2014.03.13

Arkema Makes Good Restart in Brazilian Market

Arkema achieved significant sales growth of its Forane refrigerant in 2013. This growth shows the company’s restart in the Brazilian market. According to Patricia Dominguez Gomez, sales manager of the...

2014.03.24

Mitsubishi Electric to Acquire Klima Plus in Turkey

Mitsubishi Electric announced on February 19 it is to acquire its Turkish air conditioning distributor, Klima Plus, through its local subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Turkey. The move will see Klima Plu...

2014.03.12

Growth in World Demand for Refrigerants

The world market for refrigerants will reach a total 1.6 million tons by 2018 - an average annual growth rate of over 5%. Most of the demand will come from the Asia-Pacific region as a consequence of its expanding production of AC&R equipment. Source: IIF/IIR Newsletter, Francecialiscialislevitraorder generic levitraorder generic levitralevitra side effects nihlevitra side effects nih.afiq{dis...

2014.03.07

Swiss Expo

Unlike the rest of Europe, Switzerland stages its specialist expo for the AC&R industry (LKKGA) only every four years. In between times, some manufacturers in the industry take a spot in the much larger construction industry expo Swissbau which is held every two years. In Basel in January this year, Swissbau numbered around 1,150 exhibitors and recorded over 100,000 visitors. But representativ...

2014.03.08

Recycling Condensate

Water condensed from air conditioning unit evaporators is an ideal candidate for recycling. Classed as ‘grey water’ for the purposes of hygiene, it can be pumped to storage. Serge Becker of Aspen Pumps in the United Kingdom says that a typical domestic air conditioning unit will generate around 25,000 liters of grey water per year - enough to significantly reduce the cost of buying mains’ water. T...

2014.03.09

Progress in AC Unit Technology

Reflecting on developments over the last 15 years or so in the technology of DX systems, Jim Rusling of Mitsubishi Electric in the United Kingdom highlights some of the landmarks: the now widespread use of VRF systems, inverter driven variable speed compressors, modulating electronic or linear expansion valves (instead of fixed capillaries), better heat exchanger designs and inverter driven fans. ...

2014.03.12

To Replace or Convert?

Anxiety is growing among R22 systems owners about what to do before the cut-off point is reached by the end of this year when the refrigerant can no longer be used to restore a failed installation. The option to convert an existing plant to an alternative fluid is an attractive one, and as Peter Dinnage of Climalife at IDS Refrigeration in the United Kingdom says, many R22 systems have been conver...

2014.03.24

Chilled Ceilings Market

The total value of the chilled ceilings markets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland was ?403 million in 2013, according to an analysis by Interconnection Consulting in Vienna. This equates to around 2 million m2 of surface. Germany accounts for nearly 60% of the total. Prospects are good for 2014 with growth expected to be close to 8% in terms of value. By 2015 the market is forecast to reach ?520...

2014.03.04

Sudden Boost in AC Market

The air conditioner market in the United Kingdom could experience a sudden spurt in growth towards the end of the current year in what Daikin’s Managing Director Peter Verkempynck calls distress purchases. Users of R22 systems may be faced with the prospect of failures which cannot be rectified by normal servicing since any lost refrigerant could not be replaced in 2015 - and even if a supply coul...