Other Asia
2.8.6 Singapore
Singapore is calling for diversification of energy applications and uses liquid natural gas (LNG) for electricity generation. Singapore encourages green buildings as a way to reduce carbon emissions. As a talent and logistics hub in Asia, Singapore is also where many multinational corporations locate their headquarters. Many Japanese companies are setting up Asian regional headquarters in Singapor...
2.8.5 The Philippines
The Philippine chiller market reached US$ 45.4 million in 2015, recording stable growth of 7.3%. The centrifugal segment accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total market and showed the largest growth of 9.5%, reaching US$ 28.4 million. In the Philippines, large-capacity chillers are mainly water-cooled, while small-capacity chillers are air-cooled. Trane, York, and Carrier dominate the m...
2.8.4 Vietnam
Vietnam’s chiller market is not so large at present compared with the big three markets in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Its size was US$ 33.0 million in 2015, an increase of 1.1% compared with 2014. Screw models accounted for about one half of the total chiller market, with a value of US$ 16.4 million and an annual growth rate of 19.7%. Centrifugal chillers, the second larges...
2.8.3 Malaysia
Malaysia’s chiller market decreased to US$ 62.3 million in 2015. All three segments, the combined segment of reciprocating, screw, and scroll, centrifugal; and also absorption, recorded a 9.0% decreas...
2.8.2 Thailand
Thai chiller market size was US$ 77.6 million in 2015, unchanged compared with 2014. The scroll chiller market decreased by 22.0% to US$ 5.5 million, which offset the stable growth of the centrifugal ...
2.8.1 Indonesia
Indonesia saw real GDP growth of 4.79% in 2015, a downward trend for the fifth year running. Public investment was down, and construction of office buildings and hotels has been postponed. The ...
2.8 Southeast Asia
According to BSRIA, the total chiller market in seven countries, namely Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia, recorded a 3.7% year-on-year decline to US$ 306.5 million in 2015. The bright spot was the scroll chiller market, which increased by 17.3% to US$ 22.0 million. However, all other chiller types, i.e. reciprocating, screw, centrifugal, and absorption...
2.7 Taiwan
According to BSRIA, Taiwan chiller market scale reached US$ 113.1 million in 2015, a 4.2% decrease from US$ 118.0 million in 2014. Scroll chillers serve a similar cooling capacity range as VRF systems...
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