China
Stricter rules make businesses greener
Xinhua, January 22, 2012 Last summer, an air-conditioner factory in east China gave up using traditional air conditioners and turned to a much greener way of making workers feel cool, which helped save 40 percent of its normal electricity needs. Technicians collected rainwater from the roof and blew the atomized water into every vent along the production line in the workshops. Now in winter, the...
China Appliances Target Philips Market as Incomes Double: Re
Jan 18, 2012 China’s demand for cheap home appliances is waning as the government phases out subsidies. In response, domestic companies are entering Royal Philips Electronics NV (PHIA)’s market with h...
Haier Invests in Thailand Manufacturing
Jan 20, 2012 Chinese appliance maker Haier plans to invest 600 million Thai baht, or about $19 million U.S., to expand manufacturing capacity at its appliance plant in Thailand, according to articles ...
Boom in Chinese cold chain industry
2012-01-19 As the largest food producing and consuming country worldwide, China is increasingly in need of a large-scale and systemised cold chain logistics structure. The country has planned to estab...
China International Heat Pump Summit Forum Held
From November 29 to 30, 2011, the Heat Pump Industry Development International Forum-China 2011 was held at the Shanghai Howard Johnson Hotel, with attendees from government, industry organizations, a...
Midea Receives 2011 Innovative Enterprises Award
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Finance and the China Enterprise Confederation jointly held the National Corporate Technology Innovation Conference in Beijing on Novem...
Shenzhen to Specify CFC Refrigerant Recycling Procedures
In October 2011, as required by national policies, the Shenzhen city government announced regulations for CFC refrigerant recycling.First, building administrative departments should urge their contracted maintenance companies to revise their central air conditioner maintenance procedures and, based on the official regulation, enforce the recycling of CFCs and reduce the level of CFCs emissions dur...
Demand for Copper Tube Falls Following Drop in AC Demand
Regarding the fundamentals of the copper market, a decreased consumption trend has been observed in a few month in the end of 2011. The aggregated downstream copper demand is rather depressing, and there are no strong incentives in place to boost the copper price. For instance, the demand for air conditioner copper tubes in a few month in the end of 2011, as a result of rapid demand contraction in...
Emission Trading Scheme to be Carried Out in Chongqing and S
The General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission released a memorandum on the ‘Pilot Run Program of the Carbon Emission Trading Scheme’ and approved seven municipalities (Chongqing, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Shenzhen) to carry out the pilot scheme. According to the memorandum, this scheme is an important decision to accelerate economic development ...
Mitsubishi Electric to Open Branch Office in Nanchang
On November 23, 2011, Mitsubishi Electric Air-Conditioning & Visual Information Systems (Shanghai) opened another branch office in the Xihu District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. Three top man...
