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Danfoss Wins 2009 AHR Innovation Awards for Cooling and Refr
Danfoss will be honored with an unprecedented two Innovation Awards at the AHR Expo, including coveted awards in both Cooling and Refrigeration categories.For Cooling, the award will be given for the Danfoss Apexx VSH compressor, the first high-capacity (12 to 40 tons of refrigeration) R410A variable speed scroll compressor for air conditioning and heat pumps. The Apexx solution offers continuous ...
Daikin Partners with ASHRAE in Building Sustainable Headquar
Daikin parent company of Daikin AC(Americas), based in Texas, donated a heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system that services the first floor of the new ASHRAE renewal headquarters, located in Atlanta Georgia. Daikin also provided the funding for a vegetative roof garden, which will be named the Daikin Sustainability Garden.ASHRAE’s newly renovated headquarters effectively serves as...
Mitsubishi Electric in U.S. Promotes Key Member of Staff
Mitsubishi Electric HVAC Advanced Products Division, headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, the United States, has recently promoted Meredith Emmerich to Director of application support. “With her technical expertise and knowledge of the HVAC industry, Meredith and her team are an asset to our division and will be instrumental in providing even stronger technical support,” said Bill Rau, Senior Vice P...
AHRI Releases September Heating, Cooling Equipment Shipment
Central Air Conditioners and Air-Source Heat PumpsCombined U.S. factory shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for September totaled 420,726, down 20 % compared with the same ...
Freshvector from Dunham Bush
Freshvector is an innovative new product from Dunham Bush that combines passive, natural ventilation with the company’s Finvector perimeter heating system. It addresses the need to ensure high air quality with minimum energy consumption and low noise in classrooms and many other applications.Specially developed vents with motorized dampers and attenuators are fitted into the wall of the building, ...
Financial Storm Slams Air Conditioning Industry
Recent weeks have been the climax of a longstanding recipe for disaster that boasted such ingredients as deregulation, sub-prime loans, and a housing bubble. The result could be the worst economic cri...
THE 2009 AHR EXPO, One of the World’s Largest Exhibitions
The 2009 AHR EXPO will be held on January 26 -? 28 at Chicago’s McCormick Place in the United States.The latest in ‘green’ products, technologies, trends and solutions will take center stage at the 20...
Panasonic Seeks Capital Alliance with Sanyo
Birth of Japan’s Largest Electronics Manufacturer Panasonic Corporation(Panasonic) (President: Fumio Ohtsubo) and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Sanyo) (President: Seiichiro Sano) held a joint press con...
Roaring Raw Material Prices Force AC Makers to Find New Stra
Accompanying the roaring price of crude oil from the beginning of this year, prices of raw materials, especially those used in the air conditioning industry such as steel, copper, and plastics, experi...
Ingersoll Rand Opens Its Trane China New Plant
On July 23, 2008, Ingersoll Rand Company held the opening ceremony of its Taicang new plant of Trane in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China. This is the first time for Trane to expose to the public as Ingersoll Rand’s family member after the completion of the acquisition on June 5, 2008. Mr. Herbert L. Henkel, Chairman, President and CEO of Ingersoll Rand, and many other Inge...
Carrier and Midea to Form J.V. in China
Carrier, a unit of United Technologies, and Guangdong Midea Electric Appliances, a unit of the Midea Group, have signed an agreement to form an air-conditioning manufacturing joint ...
RAC Sales in Southern Europe Decline
Despite Europe’s sound economic fundamentals, the strong headwinds, which include persistent uncertainties about the duration and the ultimate cost of the world credit turmoil, surging commodity prices, a weakening U.S. economy, a downturn in business indexes originating from the subprime loan issue in the US and an increasing rate of unemployment, have begun t...
