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Johnson Controls Completes Sale of HomeLink Business
Milwaukee, Sept. 27, 2013-- Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI), today announced that it has completed the sale of its HomeLinkR business to Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX) of Zeeland, Michigan. ...
BRIEF: Demand for air conditioners cools off
Sep 28, 2013 (Menafn - Bangkok Post - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --Air conditioner sales in Thailand are expected to edge up only 5% this year, in the wake of a surge in purchases after the floods of 2011. Siam Daikin Sales Co, the local distributor for Japan’s Daikin Industries Ltd, forecasts muted growth on last year’s 30-billion-baht market, said chief executive Bandhit...
Statement to the F-GAS Review: R-404A ban from the compresso
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 total life cycle aspects must equally be taken into account. ...
Headline News Volume 193
============================ eJARN.com Headline News Date: 2013 October 1, Volume 193 http://www.ejarn.com ============================ * China’s Cold Chain Market 2012 The market scope of China’s cold chain equipment manufacturing industry is estimated at RMB 150 billion (US$ 24.5 billion), and is expected to exceed RMB 350 billion (US$ 57 billion) by 2015. http://www.ejarn.com/news.asp?id=25765&...
Fast-Action Climate Mitigation: A Focus on Short-Lived Clima
Monday, September 16, 2013--On the occasion of the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) held a briefing about the benefits of reducing emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and other short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as black carbon and methane. The briefing disc...
Viessmann ad campaign focuses on weather compensation techno
26 - September - 2013 Viessmann has launched a national advertising campaign to coincide in with the heating season and raise awareness of weather compensation technology. As well as appearing in pri...
Lidl picks up National Retailer award in night of firsts at
26 September 2013 Discount retailer Lidl has become a first-time winner of the National Retailer category at the Cooling Awards, beating a host of bigger supermarkets in the process. Lidl’s win was just one of a number of firsts as the industry’s biggest Awards celebrated its ninth year with another record audience ? more than 670 of the industry’s finest, a massive 10 per cent rise on last...
Gov. Cuomo Launches New York Green Bank Initiative
Sep 26, 2013 Albany, N.Y. -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has launched the first step of his $1 billion New York Green Bank initiative through a petition to use approximately $165 million in uncommitted funds for the Green Bank’s initial capitalization. The petition was filed by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to the Public Service Commission (PSC). This initial funding...
Nortek’s CES Group Forms Data Center Products Group
Sep 26, 2013 Eden Prairie, Minn. -- CES Group LLC, a subsidiary of Nortek Inc. and a manufacturer of custom and engineered HVAC solutions, has formed a Data Center Products Group focused on delivering cooling technologies for data centers. Led by Kris Holla, chief sales officer and vice president, Data Center Products for Nortek, the newly formed business team builds on CES Group’s more tha...
New Rooftop A/C Unit Design ‘Evolves’ in NIST Study
Sep 26, 2013 Gaithersburg, Md. -- Played out on a computer over hundreds of generations, a survival-of-the-fittest programming method adapted by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers has created a design for a more efficient rooftop air conditioning system. The evolutionary tack optimized the snaking arrangement of cooling tubes in the rooftop unit’s heat exchanger. Th...