India
India Air Purifier Market to Grow at CAGR of 45% in 2013-201
India is counted amongst the most air polluted countries globally. On the contrary, penetration level of air purifiers is negligible. This indicates the potential demand for air purifiers in the country. India’s air purifier market revenue will grow at the compound average growth rate (CAGR) of around 45% during 2013 and 2018. The air purifier market expansion has been seen in health, hospi...
Six More Airports to be Privatized
After New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore, it is now the turn of six more airports - Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jodhpur and Guwahati to be privatized and follow the public private partnership (PPP) model on a revenue share basis with the Airport Authority of India (AAI) for a concession period of 30 years. Out of these six airports, Kolkata and Chennai were recently refurbis...
Malls More Than Double in 5 Years
The slowdown in the Indian realty sector has surprisingly not hampered the development of new malls across the country. India has 570 operational malls (as of May 2013) with a total area of 180 million ft2, compared to just 225 malls that were up and running five years ago. The seven metros have 190 operational malls even as more than 60 opened across India in the last one year alone. And i...
Climaveneta of Italy Establishes Factory in India
The leading chiller manufacturer in Europe has established a JV company in Bangalore with an Indian partner. The company is named Climaveneta Climate Technologies Pvt. Ltd. And a new factory, with an ...
Thermax Commissions Solar-based Cooling Project for Honeywel
Thermax recently commissioned the first commercial solar-based cooling project at Honeywell Technologies Automation Lab in Hyderabad. A total of 128 parabolic trough collectors are integrated with a d...
Daikin Airconditioning India to Double Production in Current
Daikin India will invest Rs 3.3 billion (US$ 55 million) in the current financial year (2013-2014) to double its production capacity for room air conditioners in the country, notwithstanding the curre...
Wipro Chooses Swegon Blue Box for Indian Govt’s Largest Data
Wipro, one of the top four software developers in India, is constructing two data centers in New Delhi and Bangalore for the Indian government as part of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project. While searching for a partner for the project, Wipro has chosen Swegon Blue Box as the supplier of the cooling systems. The order of ?750,000 comprises 80 precision air conditio...
Voltas Wins Large Contracts from Delhi & Chennai Metros
Voltas has been awarded a contract for Environment Control System (ECS) and Tunnel Ventilation System (TVS) for eight underground stations and connected tunnels, totalling 11.47 km in length, as part ...
Forget cars, planes, in India, air-conditioners speak of lux
New Delhi, November 02, 2013 Rahatgarh in Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh is quite bearable during end-October. After the monsoons bring the summer temperatures down, the mercury climbs up a few notches again from September onwards until winter starts seeping in from mid-November. On Thursday, October 24 It was warm, not hot, in the midday sun in this Bundelkhand region where Rahul Gandhi ...
Focus on management of hydrofluorocarbons at global meet, NG
Oct 21, 2013 New Delhi: Government of India should focus on the setting up of a contact group to discuss the management of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment urged today as the 25th meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol kicked off in Thailand. In a statement today, CSE, however pointed out that any contact group which discusses not the manageme...
