Japan
Kobe Symposium Rescheduled to October 2021
The next edition of International Symposium on New Refrigerants and Environmental Technology (Kobe Symposium) is planned to be held from October 14 to 15, 2021, which was rescheduled from December 10 ...
The new town “HARUMI FLAG” that accommodates up to 12,000 re
December 28, 2020 “HARUMI FLAG” is a big project that was developed as part of the Harumi 5-Chome West District Category 1 Urban Redevelopment Project in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. The city of Tokyo...
Meet Mr. Matsushita
Dec 28, 2020 Panasonic's roots trace back to its founder, Konosuke Matsushita, and his vision to create what would benefit the greater good. Let's look at how the business he started to build...
HVAC&R Expos beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has altered the way people go about doing almost every kind of activity. It would not be an exaggeration to say that COVID-19 has upended daily life as we know it. The vague term ‘New N...
MHI Opens New Development and Testing Facility for AC&R Syst
October 22, 2020, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems (MHI Thermal Systems) announced that it has completed construction of a new development and testing facility for commercial-use air condit...
Fujitsu General Demonstrates Visualization/Digitalization of
In October, in the Advanced Engineering Lab (AE Lab) within the Innovation & Communication Center (ICC) of Fujitsu General’s Head Office in Kawasaki, in collaboration with KOA and Kyushu Kei...
Mitsubishi Electric’s Net Zero Energy Building Test Facility
On October 14, 2020, Mitsubishi Electric completed the construction of its SUSTIE net zero-energy building (ZEB) test facility located on the premises of the company’s Information Technology R&a...
Chillers Adopting R32 Are Penetrating the Japanese Market
In the Japanese market, triggered by the announcement of room air conditioners (RACs) adopting R32 in 2012, the use of R32 in RACs and packaged air conditioners (PACs) now has become the mainstream. A...
Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning Receives 2020 Good
On October 1, The Japan Institute of Design Promotion revealed the winners of the 2020 Good Design Award. Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning’s ‘Silent-Iconic’ design panel and...
Fujitsu General Releases RACs with AI Automatically Heating/
From November 14, 2020, Fujitsu General began releasing the artificial intelligence (AI)-aided nocria X series of room air conditioners (RACs) featuring a sophisticated cleaning function featuring &ls...
