Japan
Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning employee Koichiro

November 5, 2019 | Written by Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning Communications Staff The Government of Japan awarded the 2019 Medal of Honor with Yellow Ribbon to our employee Koichir...
PAM RAC registered as an Essential Historical Material for S

Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning has announced that the Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) inverter room air conditioner (RAC) (RAS-501HX2), originally released by Hitachi in 1997, has been reg...
Toshiba Carrier’s Inverter AC Registered as Mirai Technology

Inverter air conditioners for residential use, precisely inverter-driven RAS-225PKHV air conditioners, developed by Toshiba in 1981, have been selected by the National Museum of Nature and Science for...
MHI Thermal Systems Receives Two Awards at Commendation Cere

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Thermal Systems has received the outstanding performance award for its ETI-Z series next-generation centrifugal chiller on the occasion of the 22nd Ozone Layer Protec...
Daikin Releases Four New Products in New Ururu Sarara Series

On October 3, Daikin held an event during which new products were unveiled. The company has newly launched the ‘Ururu Sarara series’ brand line comprising air conditioning products that fe...
Last-Minute Demand Occurs in Japanese Market Due to Tax Incr

In Japan, starting from October 2019, the consumption tax increased to 10% from the previous 8%. A tax increase from 5% to 8% was implemented in April 2014, triggering last-minute demand, and greatly ...
Fujitsu General Thailand Starts Operation of New Factory in

Fujitsu General (Thailand) launched a new factory (Factory-2) in the same industrial Estate as its first factory. It started operation on October 2. With the launch of this factory, Fujitsu General...
JATL Contributes to AC&R Energy Savings with Its Cutting-edg

On September 27 during Bangkok RHVAC 2019, Tomoyoshi Takeuchi, executive director of the Japan Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Testing Laboratory (JATL), made a presentation and introduced JATL and...
Japanese AC Manufacturers Further Strengthen Technical Capab

According to the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), domestic capital investment in fiscal year 2019 (end of March 2020) is planned to achieve double-digit growth in both the manufacturing and non-manufa...