JARN News
AREA Welcomes New President, Secretary General, and Board
During the annual General Assembly in May 13, Air conditioning and Refrigeration European Association (AREA) members unanimously elected Coen van de Sande, director of the Dutch Refrigeration Engineer...
Great Eastern Retail Takes Over 15 Sargam Electronics Stores
Kolkata-based consumer electronics retailer Great Eastern Retail has taken charge of 15 stores of Delhi-based retailer Sargam Electronics by settling the rent due for over six months, taking on its payroll some manpower and paying a cost for the store fixtures. The deal will allow Great Eastern to make a beginning in the Delhi markets. Great Eastern will invest around INR 500 million (about US$ 6....
LG Starts Manufacturing Inverter Window ACs in India
Consumer durables manufacturer LG Electronics announced on April 28, 2022 that it has begun manufacturing dual inverter window air conditioners at its plant in Greater Noida in northern India. The company will invest in building the capability to manufacture up to 300,000 units of window air conditioners. South Korea-based LG entered India in 1997. The company has a manufacturing unit in Greater N...
Johnson Controls Chiller Testing Facility Is AHRI Certified
The new manufacturing plant of YORK, a brand of Johnson Controls, at Pune in western India has announced that its chiller testing facility, having the capability to test water-cooled chillers of up to...
Blue Star to Double Production Capacity of Deep Freezers
Air conditioning and commercial refrigeration manufacturer Blue Star has set up a new manufacturing facility at Wada in Maharashtra, western India at a cost of INR 1.3 billion (about US$ 17 million) t...
NABL Accreditation for Climaveneta Test Lab
Climaveneta has received accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) for the chiller test lab located at its manufacturing facility at Narasapura In...
Huge Savings Potential by Shifting to Water-cooled HVAC in M
Conversion of air-cooled centralized cooling systems in prime office buildings in Mumbai to water-cooled air conditioning can lead to savings of INR 1.75 billion (about US$ 22.9 million) in electricity bills annually, JLL India, a real estate service provider, said on May 4. The property consultant said Mumbai’s Grade A office space currently stands at 144 million ft2 (about 13.4 million m2)...
METUS Celebrates Distributors at Diamond Leadership Conferen
Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US (METUS) held its 2021 Diamond Leadership Conference at the Ritz Carlton Key Biscayne in Key Biscayne, Florida, from March 11 to 15. The conference recognized distribu...
Daikin Europe Starts VRV Production in Turkish Factory to Se
On May 25, 2022, Daikin Europe announced that it has invested €13 million (about US$ 13.9 million) to start the production of variable refrigerant volume (VRV) systems at its Turkish factory. Pro...
Eurovent Holds Annual Meeting in Spain
AFEC was the hosting association that supported the organization of the 66th annual meeting of Eurovent, Europe’s industry association for indoor climate, process cooling, and food cold chain te...
