China
Gree’s Twin-Screw Compressor Starts Production
As the market of screw chillers expands, the demand for semi-hermetic twin-screw compressors has increased rapidly.According to industry experts, the semi-hermetic twin-screw compressor is the key component of a screw chiller. Its performance and quality directly affect the stable operation of the chiller. However, since most chiller manufacturers lack the capability to design and manufacture semi...
Golden Dragon Settles Down in Chongqing
Recently, Henan Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube signed the Jiangjin Shuangfu Park Precise Copper Tube Production Line Project with the Jiangjin City Government. One of the biggest precise copper tub...
AC Price to Rise in Summer
According to industry insiders, some chain stores have received the notice of price adjustment from the air conditioner manufacturers recently. At the same time, some major manufacturers have also raised the factory shipment price for distributors with an average increase of 5 - 10%. Suning Appliance, the Chinese chain store giant for household appliances, predicted in its recently published ‘the ...
Little Swan Launches New ACs in Wuxi
In March, Little Swan released 12 new types of air conditioners in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The newly released products are all inverter products and come with many types of cutting-edge technologies.C...
Gree Centrifugal Chiller Wins Bid of FAW
Gree centrifugal chiller has won the bid for the Chengdu manufacturing base of Changchun First Automobile Works (FAW) in the fierce competition among companies from both domestic and overseas.FAW is the first and one of the largest automobile manufacturers in China. Its base in Chengdu covers a total area of 813,000 m2. As the biggest and most important automobile assembly workshop, the general as...
China to Build 3 - 5 Global Brands by 2015
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China released ‘the Guiding Opinion on Development of Self-owned Brand of Household Electric Appliance Industry’ in January 2011, declaring a series of measures such as further enhancing brand awareness, strengthening R&D of keynote technologies and promoting commercialization of innovations.The opinion says, household electric industry sh...
Mitsubishi Electric to Set Up FA Production & Sales Company
Tokyo, May 19, 2011 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it will strengthen its factory-automation equipment business in China by establishing a company in Changshu, Ji...
Green air conditioner subsidies to end this month
Source: [May 18 2011] Comments By Yu Xi Subsidies to promote energy-efficient air conditioners for manufacturers are due to expire at the end of the month, with no indication that they will be extended for another year. The Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) first introduced subsidies in June 2009 to promote energy efficient air conditioners. The subsidie...
Chigo to Expand its Central AC Business
Chigo’s Chairman Li Xinghao recently said that the company established a subsidiary to expand the central air conditioning business. It is expected that the sales revenue of central air conditioning business could reach RMB 3 billion (US$ 440 million) by the end of 2013. Mr. Li also mentioned that the sales network of the group would be expanded, and the company was planning to increase its annual...
Midea Establishes Welling R&D Center
Welling (Shanghai) R&D Center, Midea Group’s first R&D center located out of Shunde, was established on March 29. Professor Zhu Ziqiang, the well-known motor and control expert from the Univer...
