China
High Prices of Non-R22 ACs Restrict Market Share to Less Tha
Haier demonstrated its internetconnected inverter air conditioner with non-R22 refrigerant at Beijing Tech Expo held on May 27. Since its debut last year, non-R22 air conditioners have caused much discussion in the industry. However, at the first-tier market, consumers are still unfamiliar with non-R22 air conditioners. The high price has restricted its market share to less than 10%. Air co...
Emerging Markets Brings 39% Increase to Guangdong AC Export
Guangdong has exported 14.1 million air conditioners from January to May, a 39.3% increase on a year-on-year basis, the worthy of which was US$ 2.3 billion, a 30.7% increase on a year-onyear basis, according to Foshan Import- Export Fair Trade Newsletter. However, after the implementation of the new national standard on energy efficiency, the air conditioning industry in China keeps to have an ove...
Midea Won Bid for Central AC System of Airport in Jakarta
Midea has won the bid for the central air conditioning system of the Soekarno- Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia. The company is going to provide high-capacity central air conditioning...
Midea Central ACs Sales Double in First Half Year
The sales income of Midea Central Air Conditioners were more than RMB 3 billion (about US$ 440 million) in the first half of 2010, a more than 100% increase compared with the same period last year. &n...
Heat Wave Heats China’s AC Export
As the global economy has gradually recovered, overseas demand for air conditioners has started to rebound in the 2010 refrigeration year (RY, from August 2009 to July 2010), especially during the hot...
The 2010 International Symposium on Refrigeration Technology
Chinese National Engineering Research Center of Green Refrigeration Equipment (hereinafter ‘National Refrigeration Research Center’) hosted the 2010 International Symposium on Refrigeration Technology...
Airwell Opens its First A-Cool Store in Macao
Right after the opening of A-Cool store in Wuxi and Jieyang on June 27 and 29 in 2010, French air conditioner brand Airwell opened its 6th A-Cool store in China on July 3. Different from the previous ...
Shuangliang’s Absorption Chiller Sales Grew by 30.9%
Shuangliang changed its full name to ‘Shuangliang Eco-Energy Systems Co. Ltd.’ on August 7, 2010, and published the 2010 half-year financial report. As indicated in the report, the absorption chiller ...
CAR Attended the Annual Conference of AFF and Executive Comm
Zhong-yue Qiu, executive vice secretary- general, together with another delegate of CAR attended the AFF Annual Conference and the IIR Executive Committee Meeting in France from June 1 to 12, 2010. Bo...
Refrigerant in Big Demand
After the financial crisis in 2008, the fluorine chemical industry, which mainly relies on the fluorite resources, has been trying to adjust its production. However, the prices remained low and many c...
Samsung Wins KRW 20 Billion Contract in Tianjin
Samsung Electronics announced on July 28, 2010 that it beat out other firms to win a KRW 20 billion (US$ 17 million) contract for the Tianbao International Business Project in the Tianjin City free tr...
Zhongshan Exported 2.87 Million ACs
For the first seven months of 2010, Zhongshan exported 2.87 million air conditioner units, with the value of US$ 498 million, marking a significant growth rate of 85.2% and 63.8% respectively. According to the data from Zhongshan Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine, for the first six months of this year, TCL De’Longhi Home Appliances alone exported 640,000 air conditioners with the value o...
