Japan
Panasonic Releases Humidifying ‘nanoe’ Air Purifiers
In September, Panasonic’s Appliance Marketing Japan Division released new models of humidifying air purifiers that can collect house dust near the floor about 50% faster than previous models thanks to...
Daikin Launches 3 New Models of Humidifying Air Purifiers
In September 2012, Daikin released 3 models in the ‘Mild Moisturizing (Uruoi) Hikari Kurieru’ humidifying air purifier series that adopt a new ‘active plasma ion’ generator in addition to the company’...
Residential Air Quality Appliance Market
Responding to increasing needs for higher indoor air quality (IAQ), residential air purifiers and humidifiers are attracting greater attention. The air purifier market has continued to grow to such an...
MHI Delivers World’s Highest Level Efficiency Chiller to Tok
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) delivered two units of large centrifugal chiller (cooling capacity 1,350 RT) to the Tokyo Skytree? area district heating and cooling (DHC) plant. Having one of the wo...
Ebara Delivers Three Types of Chillers to Tokyo Skytree
Ebara Refrigeration Equipment and Systems delivered three different types of chillers to the district heating and cooling (DHC) plant of the Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo Skytree town(R), which opened on May...
MHI's Matsusaka Plant Receives Award from General Motors: ‘S
- Only Car Air-Conditioner Manufacturing Plant in Japan Selected - Tokyo, Nov 27, 2012 --The Matsusaka Plant of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) in Mie Prefecture, which belongs to MHI’s Air-C...
Ziehl-Abegg’s Fan Satisfies Good Design Jury
Ziehl-Abegg presents its successful ZAplus, which is higher efficiency through a new design and simple handling. “I’m very happy that our new fan system ZAplus has won a Good Design Award,” say...
Daikin Subsidiary Develops ‘Smart Dry’ Dehumidification Syst
From November 1, Daikin Applied Systems, a fully owned subsidiary of Daikin Industries, began receiving orders for the Smart Dry, a dehumidification system for dry cleanrooms used mainly in lithium io...
Turnaround of the ground-source heat-pump market in Japan
22/11/2012 After having declined steadily between 2006 and 2010, the ground-source heat pump market showed 26% growth in 2011 compared with 2010. Japan has experienced electricity shortages si...
Panasonic to Establish Fujisawa Town Management Company
Panasonic, as the primary party in the land readjustment project, has gained approval to go ahead with construction of the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (Fujisawa SST), a pioneering smart city proje...
Daikin: Dreaming without Limits
-- Second Installment of Interview, November Issue The first of two installments of an interview with Mr. Ebisu was published in JARN’s October issue. This November issue carries the second installmen...
Market and Product Developments
Centrifugal Chiller Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) offers six models to its ‘eco Turbo ETI’ series of inverter-driven centrifugal chillers. The models range in capacity from 150 to 700 RT. With the...
