Japan
Hoshizaki America Earns 2021 Energy Star Award
Hoshizaki announced that Hoshizaki America has received the 2021 Energy Star ‘Partner of the Year-Product Brand Owner’ for the 10th year in a row, thanks to their superior contributions in...
Mitsubishi Electric Wins Noteworthy Welding Invention Award
On June 7, 2021, Mitsubishi Electric announced that Takeshi Monodane and Hidetoshi Takeyama of Manufacturing Engineering Center, and Hiromichi Motegi, Masayoshi Ishida, and Tsuyoshi Suda of Gunma Work...
Daikin Sets up Integrated Production Center within its Kashi
Daikin has set up an Integrated Production Center (IPC) within its Kashima Plant in Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture, where fluorinated chemical products are manufactured. With a view to improving the ...
Panasonic Refrigerated Smart Showcase Installed in Beer Bar
Panasonic Commercial Equipment Systems has delivered a refrigerated smart showcase of the inner box type to the ‘Yamato Craft Beer Switch,’ which Kintetsu Retailing opened on July 1, 2021 ...
Japan’s AC Shipments Continued to Increase in May
The Japan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association (JRAIA) released the latest statistics on domestic room air conditioner (RAC) and packaged air conditioner (PAC) shipments, on June 21...
Inoac Launches Drain-up Pipes Called Drain Hose Light II for
In July 2021, Inoac has launched eight models of drain-up pipes DRL2-20L25L-1000 for packaged air conditioners (PACs) on the European market through overseas distributors. Drain-up pipes are defined a...
Daikin Places R290 Plug-in RDCs on Domestic Market
On June 15, 2021, Daikin began selling plug-in refrigerated display cases (RDCs), which have been developed by AHT, a Daikin Group company in Europe, in the Japanese market under the Daikin brand. Wit...
Food Technologies Gather at Fooma Japan 2021
From June 1 to 4, 2021 International Food Machinery & Technology Exhibition (Fooma Japan 2021), Asia’s largest comprehensive trade show in the food technology sector, sponsored by the Japan ...
Mitsubishi Electric: Refrigerant Circuit
Aug. 8, 2021 In every HVAC unit, big or small, the refrigerant circuit is fundamental, without which there would be no air conditioning. The refrigerant circuit contains four major components: the co...
Refrigerant Management Status and Proposals in Japan
Reported by Prof. Noboru Kagawa, School of Systems Engineering, National Defense Academy Introduction Fluorocarbons are working fluids for air conditioning and refrigeration (AC&R) sys...
