India
Severe Heatwave in India Exposes Gaps in Access to Cooling P
As India struggled to cope with soaring temperatures during the summer months, experts warned that the lack of access to cooling products including air conditioners, refrigerators, and fans will cost lives and livelihoods. Almost 323 million people across the country are at high risk from extreme heat combined with a lack of cooling equipment such as fans and refrigerators, found a report released...
Flipkart, e-commerce Company Starts AC Servicing
e-commerce company Flipkart has entered the home services business, starting with offering air conditioner servicing, according to market sources. It is providing the service through Jeeves, an after-sales services company that it acquired a few years back. The service is available in Bengaluru in southern India and Kolkata in eastern India and will soon be expanded to other major Indian cities. S...
Maersk rainbow container arrives in India for a month-long t
22 July 2022 The 40-feet rainbow container will travel from India’s East Coast to West Coast creating awareness, and celebrating and affirming Maersk’s commitment to diversity, equi...
Youth in Bengaluru Say They Want to Solve Problems of Waste
18-07-2022 At an education and innovation roadshow organized by Samsung India in Bangalore at the iconic Samsung Opera House, enthusiastic young college students came forward and identified problems ...
Great Eastern Retail Takes Over 15 Sargam Electronics Stores
Kolkata-based consumer electronics retailer Great Eastern Retail has taken charge of 15 stores of Delhi-based retailer Sargam Electronics by settling the rent due for over six months, taking on its payroll some manpower and paying a cost for the store fixtures. The deal will allow Great Eastern to make a beginning in the Delhi markets. Great Eastern will invest around INR 500 million (about US$ 6....
LG Starts Manufacturing Inverter Window ACs in India
Consumer durables manufacturer LG Electronics announced on April 28, 2022 that it has begun manufacturing dual inverter window air conditioners at its plant in Greater Noida in northern India. The company will invest in building the capability to manufacture up to 300,000 units of window air conditioners. South Korea-based LG entered India in 1997. The company has a manufacturing unit in Greater N...
Johnson Controls Chiller Testing Facility Is AHRI Certified
The new manufacturing plant of YORK, a brand of Johnson Controls, at Pune in western India has announced that its chiller testing facility, having the capability to test water-cooled chillers of up to...
Blue Star to Double Production Capacity of Deep Freezers
Air conditioning and commercial refrigeration manufacturer Blue Star has set up a new manufacturing facility at Wada in Maharashtra, western India at a cost of INR 1.3 billion (about US$ 17 million) t...
NABL Accreditation for Climaveneta Test Lab
Climaveneta has received accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) for the chiller test lab located at its manufacturing facility at Narasapura In...
Huge Savings Potential by Shifting to Water-cooled HVAC in M
Conversion of air-cooled centralized cooling systems in prime office buildings in Mumbai to water-cooled air conditioning can lead to savings of INR 1.75 billion (about US$ 22.9 million) in electricity bills annually, JLL India, a real estate service provider, said on May 4. The property consultant said Mumbai’s Grade A office space currently stands at 144 million ft2 (about 13.4 million m2)...
