RAC/PAC
India’s RAC Energy Efficiency Standard to Rise from 2014
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) announced its first set of efficiency standards and labels for room air conditioner (RAC) in July 2006. The RAC labeling program introduced Minimum Efficiency Perform...
Establishment of Daikin Air Conditioning Saudi Arabia
Daikin Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daikin, has established Daikin Air Conditioning Saudi Arabia in a joint venture with RIRAC, a Saudi joint company between Rajhi Holdings and Al Mutlaq Group...
Cyber Attack Risk for ACR Systems
A targeted attack from computer hackers who are capable of taking over control of centralized air conditioning and building energy management systems and embedding viruses is already a reality. Cyber security is a new discipline which has evolved to protect installations against this risk. Hugh Boyes writing in the CIBSE Journal instances some of the possible threats: altering control settings, in...
Defining Air Conditioning
The terms air conditioning and climate control have become an important feature of local and international energy regulations and standards in Europe. But as Prof. Achim Trogisch of the Dresden University of Applied Sciences (Germany) points out, the exact meaning of these terms can be critical when used in a legal context where correct interpretation is vital in deciding on whether a system confo...
Hitachi Air Conditioning Launches Aircademy Training Center
Hitachi Air Conditioning Products Europe announced the launch of its newly refurbished Aircademy training center in Maidenhead, Berkshire in the United Kingdom. Hitachi’s Aircademy has recently...
Samsung Innovative Triangle Body Design AC
On December 1, Samsung announced the launch of the new Samsung air conditioner (AR09HSSFAWK) engineered to deliver exceptional cooling, comfort and health benefits with a striking triangle body design...
Leveraging Branding for Long-term Growth
-- Interview with Takeshi Ebisu, Daikin Senior Executive Officer In September 2012, JARN interviewed Takeshi Ebisu, senior executive officer of Daikin, about Daikin’s acquisition of Goodman. Th...
Technological Review of Japanese Room Air Conditioners
Room air conditioner (RAC) shipments in Japan have topped 8 million units for three consecutive years. This is attributed not only to intensive heat waves in summer, but also to increasing recognition...
Ductless AC Wave
-- What Is behind Hitachi’s Strategy of Spinning Off Hitachi Appliances’ Overseas Business to JCI? The U.S. air conditioner market is seeing brisker business activity than other regions as the ...
Trane Improves Infrastructure and Lighting for Missouri Scho
Dec. 18, 2013 Administrators at Dunklin R-V School District, located in Herculaneum, MO, in suburban St. Louis, expect recently completed infrastructure and lighting updates to save nearly $27,000 a y...
