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Midea RACs Achieve Fruitful Results in 2023
Affected by inflation and unfavorable weather in 2023, consumption in major markets such as Europe and the United States was sluggish. However, Midea’s residential air conditioner (RAC) business...
Mitsubishi Electric Adopts Multi Strategies for Its Overseas
Mitsubishi Electric deploys a wide range of products in its air conditioning and refrigeration (AC&R) business throughout the world. JARN interviewed Masahiko Konishi, senior general manager, Over...
Daikin Targets Top Position in European Heat Pump Heating Ma
Daikin’s heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) business sales in Europe for fiscal year 2022 ending March 31, 2023, ranked second after the Americas among the gr...
Toshiba Carrier Gains Customers’ Confidence with Its Chiller
Toshiba Carrier became a part of Carrier last summer. About a year later, JARN interviewed Toru Kubo, president, HVAC Japan, Carrier, to hear about the company’s chiller business and positive ch...
Hitachi air365 Hybrid Is a Powerful Drawcard for Flexible Cl
In September, Johnson Controls–Hitachi Air Conditioning launched Hitachi air365 Hybrid, an emissions-reducing residential heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) dual fuel heat pump sy...
Hisense HVAC Attracts Customers with Its Excellent Products
Hisense HVAC held a launching conference for its new heat pump products in Paris, in June. Seizing this opportunity, JARN interviewed Li Youbo, vice president of Hisense HVAC and general manager of Gl...
Epta Restores the Future with Its Sustainable Refrigeration
At EuroShop 2023 held from February 26 to March 2 in Düsseldorf, Germany, JARN interviewed William Pagani, chief marketing officer (CMO) of Epta, a commercial refrigeration leader based in Italy....
Saginomiya Driving the Market through ‘Glocalization’
In the middle of July, JARN visited Saginomiya headquarters located in the center of Tokyo, and interviewed Shigeyuki Nishimi, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Saginomiya, a global leadi...
Panasonic Connects Global Cold Chain with Natural Refrigeran
JARN interviewed Yasuyuki Tsuchiya, vice president of Panasonic Cold Chain Solutions (CCS) Company, director of CCS Company’s Cold Chain Business Division, and vice president of Panasonic Commer...
JRAIA International Symposium to Update on HVAC&R Industry E
The Japan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association (JRAIA) will hold the International Symposium on New Refrigerants and Environmental Technology 2023 at the Kobe International Conferen...
Low-GWP Refrigerants to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Tipping P
JARN interviewed Richard (Tad) Ferris, senior counsel, and Dr. Stephen O. Andersen, director of Research, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD), to ask these two specialists ab...
Danfoss Invests to Create Attractive Value
At the end of April, Kim Fausing, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Danfoss, and Jürgen Fischer, president of Danfoss Climate Solutions, visited Japan. JARN seized this opportunity a...
