Japan
Panasonic Targets Doubling Commercial Air Conditioner Sales
Panasonic announced its target of \700 billion (about US$ 5.8 billion) in sales in its air conditioner business in fiscal 2018 (end March 2019), a 52% increase over sales in fiscal 2014. JARN intervie...
Interview with JSRAE Officers for ICR2015
JARN interviewed Masafumi Katsuta, previous president of JSRAE, who also serves as the executive chairman of the ICR2015 committee, and Momoki Katakura, an executive member of the ICR2015 and a former...
Yokohama: Open to the World for ICR2015
The 24th IIR ICR2015, an event aptly characterized as the HVAC&R Olympics, is being held in Yokohama, Japan, this August (see p. 4 for related article). JARN interviewed Noboru Kagawa of JSRAE, on...
ICR2015: To Improve Quality of Life, Preserve the Earth
The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) International Congress of Refrigeration (ICR) is a milestone event. The 24th ICR, hosted by the Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning E...
'CSR Report 2015' for the Daikin Group
13 July 2015 Daikin Industries, Ltd. has issued its Japanese edition of "CSR Report 2015" summarizing CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities in the Daikin Group from April 2014 to March 2015...
Panasonic to Open 'Wonder Life-BOX'with Future Lifestyles in
3 July 2015 Osaka, Japan - Panasonic Corporation will open a showcase that presents future lifestyles for 2020 and beyond at the Panasonic Center Tokyo, the company’s global communications hub for lin...
MHI Introduces Next-generation Centrifugal Chillers
1 July 2015 TOKYO - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) has developed a new series of centrifugal chillers, called the ETI-Z Series, that use a new low-global warming potential (low-GWP) refrigeran...
Mitsubishi moves in Norway and Thailand
30 Jun 2015 JAPAN: Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV is to purchase all the shares of its Norwegian air conditioning equipment distributor MIBA AS. From its base in Ytre Enebakk, 30km south east of...
Helping kids understand cooling
29 Jun 2015 JAPAN: BASF is making food and refrigeration the focus of a set of new experiments to help kids understand more about how things keep cool. Celebrating its 150th anniversary, the Ge...
Schneider Electric Releases Data Center Management Software
On May 29, Schneider Electric released the StructureWare data center operation v.7.4.5, which adds the Cooling Optimize function linked with the Smart Dash air conditioning control system sold by NTT Facilities. The StructureWare data center operation optimizes electric power monitoring and network management for data centers and server rooms in the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) sol...
