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Highly Building Large AC Compressor Plant in India
As the first listed refrigeration compressor company in China, Highly has been developing along with the Chinese economy and refrigeration industry for 20 years. Achieving fast growth by introducing t...
Bitzer Expansion
German compressor manufacturer Bitzer is to expand its existing production center at Schkeuditz which the company originally bought from former East German MAB in 1991. A 30 million expansion plan is ...
Domestic Heating and Ventilation in France
The heat pump market in France is a disaster, so says the president of the ACR trade association Uniclima in commenting on the latest sales figures. Only 53,000 air-to-water units sold in 2012 compared with Germany’s 60,000. Ground-source systems have suffered the most, sales falling by 17%. Air-to-air reversible multi split units sold the largest number but this marked a fall of 16%. By contrast,...
Swegon Acquires Walter Meier
Swedish ACR equipment specialist Swegon has announced an agreement to acquire Walter Meier (Klima Deutschland) in Germany, a subsidiary of the Swiss Walter Meier Group. In Germany, the company recorded a turnover of 37 million in 2012, selling air conditioner units from Fujitsu General (Japan) and chillers from Blue Box (Italy). With the sale of its German subsidiary, Walter Meier in Switzerland i...
French AHU Market Falls
The freeze in construction and renovation in the commercial and industrial sectors has depressed sales of air handling units (AHUs) in France, figures for 2012 showing a fall of 8% compared with the previous year-according to statistics from the trade association Pac&Clim’Info. The design of AHUs has also been changing, driven mainly by the RT 2012 energy regulations which require heat recover...
Holland Heating Now Part of Systemair
Air handling unit manufacturer Holland Heating (turnover 33 million in 2012) became part of Carrier in 1997 and has recently been sold to Systemair in Sweden. Systemair pioneered the inline centrifugal fan in 1974 and now has a wide range of air system products including chillers. Sales in 2011-2012 were Swedish Krona 4 billion. Source: ACR News, UKcialiscialislevitraorder generic levitraorder gen...
Potential for District Cooling in Europe
A project led by Dresden University (Germany) aims to promote the use of district cooling in 15 major European cities. Currently the penetration of district cooling is less than 2% of total cooling demand-the equivalent of around 3 TWh. The Renewable Smart Cooling for Urban Europe (RESCUE) project is supported by some of the leading energy utilities and given a 75% funding from the EU. Denmark upc...
Mini Heat Pumps
Very low energy houses are destined to become more common in the near future now that the French energy regulations RT 2012 have come into force. Some air-to-water heat pump manufacturers (Atlantic for example) have introduced models specifically designed for this market with ratings around 5-6 kW for houses of typically 110-120 m2 floor area. The ground floor would be heated by embedded coils and...
Supermarket Refrigeration
In a paper read to the British Institute of Refrigeration, it was argued that the case for natural refrigerants was flawed when contrasted against the real performance of supermarket refrigeration equipment. An evaluation of a range of installations in Asda stores over the last few years showed that given a strict regime of containment, R407F-based equipment showed better performance in terms of e...
AHRI Submits Letter on Montreal Protocol Amendment
Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) recently submitted a letter to the Department of State and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the recent North American HFC phase down amendment to the Montreal Protocol. The letter noted that when the amendment was originally proposed in 2009, the phase-down schedule for developed countries included a 2013 start date and 2...