India
Danfoss Collaborates for Advanced Drives Lab
Danfoss India has inaugurated its first Advanced Drives Laboratory at the prestigious Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Tamil Nadu, south India as a part of its industry academia initiative to ...
ISHRAE & ASHRAE Hold Refrigeration Seminar
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE) held a seminar on refrigeration ...
JCI Launches BMS Training Center at Pune
Johnson Controls (JCI) has started a Building Management System (BMS) training center at Pune, west India in partnership with Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Engineering and Technology (DYPIET), ranked am...
Gaurang Pandya, UTC New India President
Gaurang Pandya has been appointed as president of India Operations, UTC Building & Industrial Systems. In his new position, he will have the responsibility for leading brands such as Carrier, Otis...
Heat Wave Sweeps India
India has recently suffered from a fatal heat wave. JARN received news of the extreme heat from our reporter in India, Rakesh Kumar, technical editor of ISHRAE Journal, to share with our readers. &nbs...
ACREX India to Return to Mumbai in February 2016
ACREX India is returning to Mumbai after the 16th edition at Bangalore, where the event had participation from more than 25 countries including Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, ...
Another Engineer Dies in Air Conditioning Explosion
12 June 2015 INDIA: One person was killed and three others were injured yesterday in an incident at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) headquarters in the province of Dehradun. According to reports, the four workers who worked for a local air conditioning company were carrying out repairs to an air conditioner when there was a loud explosion and engineer Mahipal Khatri who was worki...
INDIA: Service tax to apply to AC restaurants only
10 June 2015 India’s Finance Ministry has announced that restaurants without air conditioning facility will not charge any service tax. It added that that those including air conditioning will ...
Food processing: a priority sector for India
29/05/2015 India’s food minister believes that with a better supply chain, the country could be a global food processing powerhouse. Food processing’s growth rate of 8.4% is one of the fastest in India’s economy. The food processing industry is one of the major employment-intensive segments, constituting over 13% of employment generated in all registered factory sectors in 2012-13. H...
India and Tonga receive R22 seizure awards
May 27, 2015 THAILAND: UNEP has rewarded India and Tonga for the seizure of contraband R22 and their efforts to enforce ODP regulations. The Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards were made at t...
2.5 India
VRF takes a large share of commercial projects in India and demand in 2014 is estimated at 25,500 units. Its most common application is multi-story residential buildings, followed by office buildings ...
1.4 Indian Subcontinent: 1.4.1 India
Reported by Rakesh Kumar, Technical Editor, ISHRAE Journal,India Political and Economic Situation The major political development of 2014 was the change of government in May. The Narendr...