Japan

2013.05.02

Sharp Appliance Division Annual Sales Up 6%

May 16, 2013 For its just-ended fiscal year, Sharp Corp. (Osaka, Japan) reported net sales of 2,478,586 million yen, up 0.9% from 2,455,850 million yen in the previous year. In the year that ended Ma...

2013.05.11

Toshiba Home Appliances Reports Higher Annual Sales

May 9, 2013 The Home Appliances business segment of Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo) had fiscal year 2012 net sales of 591.5 billion yen (approx. US$6,292.6 million), up 3%, or 16.2 billion yen, from FY 2011. Ho...

2013.05.03

Cabinet Decision on the Bill for the Act for Partial Revisio

On April 19, 2013, the Cabinet decided to approve the Bill for the Act for Partial Revision of the Act on Ensuring the Implementation of Recovery and Destruction of Fluorocarbons concerning Designated Products. In response to the approval, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) are jointly to submit the bill to this session of the Diet.   ...

2013.05.05

Sharp Develops Solar Cell with Highest Conversion Efficiency

May 1, 2013 Sharp Corp. achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency--37.9%--using a triple-junction compound solar cell in which three photo-absorption layers are stacked together. ...

2013.04.15

Japan’s Domestic AC Shipments : February 2013

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2013.04.20

Hitachi Enjoys Good Sales of Eco Cute Using Well Water

Hitachi Appliances is currently offering a lineup of 77 Eco Cute models, including 40 models which have been released from October last year. In particular, models using well water are selling well. T...

2013.04.29

Mitsubishi Electric Releases 73 Models of Eco Cute

In last year of September, Mitsubishi Electric released 73 models of Eco Cute in the Mitsubishi Eco Cute HP series, including 4 premium-type models. These models feature the hot bubble function, which...

2013.04.14

Panasonic to Release 20 Models of New Series Eco Cute

Starting June 20, Panasonic Eco Solutions will begin releasing a total of 20 models of residential Eco Cute heat pump water heaters using natural CO2 refrigerant in the KUG and KG series. The models i...

2013.04.29

Daikin Strengthens Eco Cute Lineup Featuring Powerful High P

In the last year of October, Daikin released 42 new models of Eco Cute available in 7 series. All 7 series have been equipped with the powerful high pressure feature that has realized an about 80% inc...

2013.04.13

Corona to Release Eco Cute Models Responding to HEMS

At the beginning of June, Corona will release 4 models of Eco Cute including the CHP-37AX1 responding to the home energy management systems (HEMS). The new series consists of 2 standard type models ad...