RAC/PAC
Don’t toss your air conditioner to the curb
October 25, 2013 Christopher Swain did not have old beat-up air conditioners in mind when he first began working on his organization, One Healthy Ocean, in 2007. Properly recycling unwanted air...
Electrolux portable air conditioner (EXP09HN1WI) review
23/10/2013 Summer might be all but over, and that might lead you to ask why we’re publishing an air conditioner review on this date. Well, there are a couple of reasons, which will become obvious as w...
Hitachi Releases New RACs in Stainless Clean White Bear Z Se
From late October, Hitachi Appliances began releasing a total of nine models of room air conditioners in the Stainless Clean White Bear Z series incorporating the ‘Living Camera Twin’ to more closely ...
Brisk Demand for RACs Continues Toward Winter
Thanks to intense heat waves in July and August and subsequent high temperatures in late summer, the Japanese room air conditioner (RAC) market showed a brisk sales trend in the first half of fiscal 2...
Denso Attains Cumulative Car AC Production of 300 Million Un
Denso announced that the company’s cumulative car air conditioner production reached 300 million units on September 30. Since 1952 when the company began producing car heaters as the starting point of car air conditioner production, the company has produced 300 million units in just 60 years. Denso plans to be going to secure 30% of world market by 2015. The company launched overseas operat...
Rise of E-commerce Sales Channel of AC in China
In the 2013 refrigeration year (RY), China’s air conditioning market finally saw the period of recovery. As the new round of the ‘Energy-saving Products Waste Management Project’ (Energy-saving Produc...
Gree Centrifugal Chillers Installed at Jin Bo Square
China’s centrifugal chiller market has seen signs of recovery. Leveraging outstanding technologies, Gree won the bid of phase I commercial air conditioner project for Guangzhou Jin Bo Square, supplyin...
Shunde Exports 8.06 Million ACs in January-July
According to Foshan Customs, from January to July, 2013, Shunde exported 8.06 million units of air conditioners, signifying 8.4% year-on-year growth. Total export value reached US$ 1.88 billion, marki...
Improvement on RAC Export
After high speed growth for several years, export market of China room air conditioners (RACs) showed year-onyear decrease as impacted by sluggish global economy in 2012 Refrigeration Year (RY; ending August 2012). According to the latest statistics from China Customs, export in RY 2013 indicated signs of recovery and export volume of RACs amounted to 43 million units, or year-on-year growth of 1....
Commercial AC Sales Hit RMB 30 Billion in First Half of Year
According to China’s official statistics, market value of commercial air conditioners in China including VRF hit RMB 30 billion for the first half of 2013, or slight year-on-year growth. Despite gloomy economy in the first half of the year, shipment volume of commercial air conditioners has shown signs of growth all around the country thanks to increasing projects in infrastructure, real estate an...
Price of AC Increases 7% in RY 2013
According to the White Paper of 2013 China Air Conditioning Market released on August 22, the sales volume of air conditioners in major Chinese cities in the 2013 refrigeration year (RY: end July 2013...
Major Changes in AC Market
In the last 20 years, China’s air conditioning industry has been developing at the same high speed as China’s economy. The market expansion has also caused tremendous changes in the market structure. ...
