Market Report

2022.08.08

ABRAVA Reinstates Board Members for 2022–2025

Prior to celebrating the 60th anniversary of its foundation on June 9, 2022, the Executive Board, the Administrative Council, and the Fiscal Council members of ABRAVA, the Brazilian heating, ventilati...

2022.08.01

China’s VRF Market Has Further Growth Potential

China’s variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system market has experienced more than 20 years of continuous development. In 2021, it exceeded 1.33 million units, accounting for more than 64% of the g...

2022.08.01

Chinese Manufacturers Cope with Global Supply Chain Challeng

China is a key link in the global supply chain in the air conditioning industry, in which manufacturers are facing greater challenges and pressures such as production halts during lockdowns, high raw material prices, semiconductor shortages, and turmoil in Chinese currency and maritime traffic. Manufacturers are meeting these challenges by devising various solutions.   Production Challenges...

2022.08.01

Fujitsu General Announces Premier Program Strategic Partners

Fujitsu General America has partnered with Service 1st Financial to offer the Premier Program to its contractor partners. This partnership allows Fujitsu contractors to provide homeowners with a Home ...

2022.07.31

Cubigel Compressors Releases Cooling Expert+ Brand Strategy

Cubigel Compressors of Huayi Group, a Spain-based global leading compressor manufacturer, released a new brand positioning strategy titled ‘Cooling Expert+ for the Commercial Refrigeration Indus...

2022.07.26

Midea Wows Middle East with New Inverter Wonder AC

The window air conditioner is a mainstay category in households throughout the Middle East. Yet despite this ubiquity, these window air conditioners are noisy, inefficient, inconvenient to operate, an...

2022.07.25

Italian & European ATW HP Markets Register Historic Growth i

Reported by Jacques Gandini, managing director of Studio Gandini (Italy) The air-to-water (ATW) heat pump market in Italy and Europe as a whole registered historic growth in 2021. Several factors g...

2022.07.25

Air Distribution & Controls

Reported by Zhou Xiang, Li Zhengwei, and Ye Wei, associate professors, and Wang Siqi, He Ling, and Li Yiqun, postgraduates, Tongji University At China Refrigeration Expo 2021 (CR 2021), a i r handl...

2022.07.18

Chinese AC Manufacturers Enhancing Investments in India

In the past two years, China’s exports of air conditioners to India have declined, due to India’s tariff barriers and the pandemic. Under the protection policy of the domestic industry, th...

2022.07.13

Can India Become the Second AC Powerhouse after China? — Mi

The Indian air conditioner market showed vigorous recovery in 2021, as JARN reported in the cover story of the April regular issue. This summer, India recorded all-time high sales of air conditioners ...