China
Beijing Plans to Phase Out Coal Fuel by 2020
The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau claimed that the city has prohibited the use of coal fuel, which is one of the causes of air pollution, in specified areas and will extend these prohibit areas to all the six districts in the city by 2020. During the period, all the coal fuel will be replaced by clean energies within these areas, which will accelerate improvement of air quality...
Hebei Boosts Development of Energy Saving Buildings
According to Hebei Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, newly built energy saving buildings increased by 35 million m2 in last year and 15 million m2 in the first half of this...
Hefei to Be New Refrigerator Production Base
Hefei Midea Refrigerator’s new production base enjoys total investment of RMB 4.1 billion (US$ 668 million) and plans to achieve annual production capacity of more than 5 million units of multi-door refrigerators, with annual production value of RMB 7 billion (US$ 1.1 billion). Meiling industrial and commercial refrigerator plant project locates at Hefei economic development zone. When put ...
National Subsidy to Heat Pump Dryer Released
The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance have jointly released the Notice about Implementation of Initial Processing of Agricultural Products at Place of Origin in 2014. Accordin...
Government Invests in Cold Chain Construction in Hainan
National Development and Reform Commission recently released the 2014 central budget for investment programs regarding agricultural products cold chain projects. Five cold chain projects in Hai...
Compressor Export Grows by 8%
According to a statistics from a local data company, export of air conditioner compressor has exceeded 13 million units in the first half of 2014, indicating 8% year-on-year growth. The industry saw a...
China’s Refrigeration Market Continues to Grow
The refrigeration equipment and transport refrigeration market in China is rapidly expanding. China has the world’s largest population, and its refrigeration market is growing along with rapid economi...
Record High Rotary Compressors Sales Laden with Risks
Sales of several compressor manufacturers hit the record high in the 2014 refrigeration year (RY 2014: from August 2013 to July 2014). Industry statistics showed that the total sales volume of rotary ...
Huayi to Exhibit Cubigel Brand Compressors
Huayi Compressor Barcelona is part of Huayi Compressor group and specializes in designing, manufacturing and selling hermetic compressors and condensing units for the light commercial refrigeration ma...
UN climate summit: China pledges emissions action
26 September 2014 China has pledged for the first time to take firm action on climate change, telling a UN summit that its emissions, the world’s highest, would soon peak. Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli also said China would make its economy much more carbon efficient by 2020. US President Barack Obama said climate change was moving faster than efforts to address it, and the US and China had a respons...
Haier becomes first refrigerator maker to offer a lifetime c
Sep 24, 2014 Haier’s new high capacity refrigerators, launching in the European market, feature a lifetime warranty on their compressors. The new refrigerators have storage capacity of up to 792L. "T...
China sets ambitious emission cuts for HFCs
18/09/2014 China announced a short-term target for reducing emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by the equivalent of 0.28 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2015 - similar to the annual CO2 emissions of Spain. The announcement by the State Council on reduction of HFC emissions was included in the 2014-2015 Energy Conservation, Emissions Reduction and Low Carbon Development, released to the public on May...
