RAC/PAC
Central Air Conditioner and Air-Source Heat Pump Shipments J
19 February 2015 ARLINGTON, Va. -- United States shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps totaled 461,835 units in December 2014, up 50.9 percent from 306,141 units shipped in December 2013, according to the latest statistics from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). U.S. shipments of central air conditioners increased 49.3 percent, to 278,369 u...
CRH 2015 Expo to Open Soon in Shanghai
The 26th International Exhibition for Refrigeration, Air-conditioning, Heating and Ventilation, Frozen Food Processing, Packaging and Storage (CRH 2015) is scheduled to be held from April 8 to 10, 201...
Elite Becomes the Official Distributor of RC Group in Russia
Elite offers Russian customers products from RC Group, a leader in the field of cooling equipment for the IT sector as well as air conditioning and industrial refrigeration equipment. RC Group ...
Failure of Air Conditioning Inspections Scheme
The EU requirement that all air conditioning systems installed since 2004 and rated at 12 kW plus must be independently evaluated for the efficient use of energy looks unlikely ever to meet its targets. As part of the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), which came into force in 2007, it gave October 2014 as the deadline for all these inspections to be completed. It also spec...
HARFKO 2015 to Offer HVAC&R Business Chance March 10-13, 201
HARFKO 2015, the 13th Heating, Air-Conditioning, Refrigeration and Fluid Exhibition Korea, will be held from March 10 to 13, 2015, at Kintex exhibition center in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The exhibition is ...
Green Building Initiative Recognizes ASHRAE’s Green Globes A
Green Building Initiative (GBI), a nonprofit organization committed to accelerating the adoption of sustain-able building practices and providers of the Green Globes rating system, congratulates the A...
Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Ch
Reported by Zhang Yanbin, All View Consulting According to All View Consulting (AVC), the retail sales volume of room air conditioners (RACs) was 43.9 million units in 2014, rising slightly by ...
Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Sp
Reported by Jose Ma Ortiz, JARN’s Spain Correspondent The decline of air conditioner sales in Spain over the last seven years took place in the context of restrictions on public spending to con...
Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Ch
Reported by Joaquin Gentzch, HVAC&R Consultant Economy Politically and economically speaking, 2014 was a rather unsettling year in Chile. The new government, a center-left coalition in which the communist and socialist parties play an important role together with the Christian Democrats, took office in March 2014. A new set of priorities and a new agenda were imposed on the count...
Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--Ru
Reported by Dmitry Kuzin, executive director of the Association of Professional Companies in the Industry of Climate (APIC, Russia) In 2013, 1.9 million air conditioners were sold to end users in Russia, but only 1.65 million were sold in 2014. For 2015, projected demand is in the range of 1.3 million units. The rea-sons for the sales decline are market saturation and the huge inventory bui...
Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II--In
Reported by Rakesh Kumar, Technical Editor, ISHRAE Journal India had a mild summer in 2014, especially in April and May. This caused the room air conditioner market to grow at a slow pace. Alt...
Review of the 2014 Global Air Conditioner Market Part II
-- Continued from January Issue Europe Conditions in the European market remain challenging. While expanded demand was seen in Germany and the United Kingdom, where the economy is showing recovery, markets in Italy, Spain, and Greece have fallen sharply from their peak. The moderate recovery trend in France is now looking more fragile. Italy’s economy continues to flounder. Turkey, w...
