China
Johnson Controls affirms strategic commitment to China with
New facility designed to achieve highest level of China Three Star Green Building and LEED Platinum building certifications with plans to reduce energy use by 48 percent per year Shanghai, Sept. 17, 2...
How emerging economies are changing the landscape of global
As China and Brazil step up their energy innovation efforts and foreign direct investment, they create new avenues for technology co-operation 16 September 2013The landscape of global energy innovatio...
Safety for systems with natural refrigerants
For environmental reasons, the trend today is moving towards natural refrigerants. Two categories are worth considering: non-combustible refrigerants such as CO2 and combustible refrigerants such as p...
Johnson Controls plans further production expansion in China
Presence in China will get stronger with 11 new production facilities PLYMOUTH, MICH. (September 12, 2013) - Johnson Controls, a global leader in automotive seating, seating components, automotive ele...
Carlyle Group Invests in Chinese Warehouses
Deal is the Latest Private-Equity Investment in China Logistics Sep 4, 2013 BY CHAO DENG Shanghai-U.S. private-equity firm Carlyle Group CG -1.02% is tying up with a real-estate investment manager and a large Chinese developer of logistics warehouses to invest $400 million in 17 warehouses in China, underscoring interest in the country’s logistics sector. Carlyle said on Thursday that it and The ...
Ammonia leak kills 15 in Shanghai
2 - September - 2013 Fifteen people were confirmed dead and 25 others injured, five critically, after a liquid ammonia leak at a refrigeration unit in Shanghai on Saturday. The accident took place in a factory at Shanghai Weng’s Cold Storage Industrial Company in Baoshan District, the municipal government said in an official statement. According China’s official news agency, Xinhua, the initial ...
China to raise energy efficiency standards
By Xie Chuanjiao and Hu Qing 2013-09-02 China will carry out new energy efficiency standards for five categories of home appliances, including variable frequency air conditioners, washing machines, flat panel TVs, extractor hoods and heat pump water heaters starting Oct 1, according to an announcement made by the Standardization Administration of China. The electricity consumption of variable freq...
AC Market Special: China
While Chinese air conditioner demand in 2012 fell somewhat compared with the previous year, it recorded a slight increase in the first half of this year compared with the same period of 2012. If the h...
As Air Conditioning Use Grows, Are We Cooling Our Way to a H
Aug. 30, 2013 No other country uses as much energy for air conditioning today as the United States. And it isn’t difficult to understand why, especially in a summer when devastating heat waves have sw...
Yunnan builds the largest ammonia distribution centre
28 August 2013 The South Eastern Chinese 180,000 m2 distribution centre, completed in August 2013, handles agricultural products from across the province. The cooling capacity of the cold storage is 6...
