India
Danfoss India Inaugurates Filter-drier Factory in Chennai
The Indian facility will be Danfoss’ second filter-drier factory in the world, after Mexico. Comprising an area of 10,000 ft2, it will be the largest filter drier facility in the country. With an inve...
Indian-made air conditioners now edging out Korean brands, s
Xinhua | 2012-9-21 Sales of Indian-made air conditioners now surpassed those with Korean brands, according to the result of a recent survey conducted. The market data in the GFK Nielsen Retail Audit conducted July 2012 showed that Korean brand LG’s market share dropped from 19.6 percent in March 2012 to 14.6 per cent in July 2012, while Samsung ’s plunged from 17.8 percent in Q1 of 2012 to 9.3 pe...
IEA Executive Director inaugurates solar power plants in Ind
Maria van der Hoeven, the IEA’s Executive Director, visited the Ladakh region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir from 6 to 8 September to experience the benefits brought by decentralised solar p...
Summer of discontent for Korean AC brands
New Delhi, Sept 11: Voltas has emerged as the surprise leader in the air conditioner (AC) market, which paradoxically saw the Korean majors lose ground despite record-high temperatures. LG’s m...
3.4 India
Cold Chain More than half of India’s workforce is directly involved in growing food, and India is the second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world. However, currently around one-third...
Now, one remote to lock your house, shut your AC
Chennai, Aug 15 What if the lock on the door to your house and your room air-conditioners are able to communicate with each other. You also have the comfort of operating all of them from one remote co...
Ingersoll Rand launches China-made air-conditioners
Chennai, Aug 14 (IANS) Ingersoll Rand India Tuesday launched the China-made Trane brand premium split air conditioners and said it is targeting a market share of five percent in the domestic market. ...
India’s love of appliances boosts power consumption
05 August 2012 NEW DELHI: Every evening before Indian executive Sushmita Rao leaves her Delhi office, she phones her maid to switch on the air conditioner so her apartment is refreshingly cool when she reaches home. “I work in an air-conditioned office and I suffocate if my place isn’t cool,” said Rao, one of hundreds of millions of Indians who went without electricity last week in the...
Blue Star net jumps 110%
Jul 31, 2012 Air conditioner firm Blue Star today said its net profit surged by 110% to Rs 20.54 crore in the June quarter. The company had a net profit of Rs 9.79 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal, Blue Star said in a statement. During the first quarter, the company posted an income of Rs 723.18 crore compared to Rs 698.52 crore in the year-ago period. The carry f...
Indian producer has sold 3,000 R290 AC units that meet 2016
27 July 2012 Mr Rajadhyaksha presented Godrej’s experience with converting directly from ozone depleting substances to hydrocarbons in air-conditioners. This was also the case back in 2000, when the p...
