China
China to Receive US $ 385 Million to Eliminate HCFCs
Up to US$ 385 million is to be given to China to end its production of R22 refrigerant. The money from the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol is designed to help ensure the entire elimination of China’s industrial production of ozone depleting substances by 2030. China has agreed to retire its current HCFC production capacity and will also retire surplus produ...
Haier’s Centrifugal Chiller Exported to Australia
On May 24, Haier exported China’s first batch of magnetic bearing centrifugal chillers to Australia. Australia remains a ‘restricted area’ for Chinese corporations resulting from its high entrance sta...
Tica Obtains National Certificate of Green Industrial Buildi
In May, Tica was certified by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) as a green industrial building, first in China. Currently there are only seven industrial buildings in China that...
Green Building Standard to be Implemented in Beijing
During the eco-city and green building promotional meeting held in Beijing recently, the Beijing Municipal Commission of City Planning announced that starting in June, new buildings in Beijing will be required to be 75% more energy-saving than current buildings, reaching the level of the widely-acknowledged Green Building Standard. According to the Building Energysaving Plan during the 12th...
Chigo Activates Jiujiang Base
Based on the principle of a ‘local market supplied by local production,’ both production and sales of Jiujiang Chigo have begun increasing recently as the air conditioner sales season comes along with...
GMCC Develops Aluminum Refrigerator Compressor
To cope with the trend toward high energy efficiency, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology implemented a subsidy program for high efficiency products in 2012, pushing home appliance makers to improve the efficiency of their products. For the refrigerator industry, developing high efficiency compressors is the key to reduce the power consumption of refrigerators. To lower materia...
Sales of Scroll Compressors Increase 25% in 1Q
The sales volume of scroll compressors in the first quarter of 2013 increased 25% compared with that of the same period last year. The growth rate of domestic sales even reached 28.2%. The dema...
AC Manufacturers Selfmanufacturing Their Compressors
Many air conditioner manufacturers in China are now focusing on self-manufacturing compressors. Gree, Midea, Chigo, Galanz, TCL, Samsung, Mitsubishi Electric and Panasonic have all established their compressor factories. Gree has its Landa compressor factory in Zhuhai, Midea has Guangdong Meizhi Compressor Company (GMCC) and Welling, Galanz has expanded annual manufacturing capacity of its air con...
Landa Wuhan Compressor Factory Puts into Operation
Landa Compressor, a subsidiary of Gree, started up its Wuhan factory in April. The factory is now at a trial operation stage. Three manufacturing lines are planned for the phase one project, with annu...
Steady Growth of Refrigerator Compressor Market in 1Q of 201
The recovery of the domestic refrigerator market has driven up sales of refrigerator compressors. In the first quarter of 2013, the domestic sales volume of refrigerator compressors was 19,801,000 uni...
Highly India Holds Opening Ceremony in Shanghai
On April 28, Highly Electronics (India) hold the Highly India opening ceremony in Shanghai. Shen Jianfang, chairman of the Highly Group, Guo Zhuping, general manager of the Highly Group and Dong Xiaoq...
ACs for Data Center Grows by 18.3% in 4Q of 2012
As released by Sina.com, the sales volume of air conditioners for data center in the fourth quarter of 2012 hit 84,000 units, a 18.3% year-on-year growth. China’s economy bottomed out in the third quarter of 2012 and started to rise in the forth. Triggered by a release of annual budget for all industries before the year-end, as well as stable investment in information technology, increasing demand...
