China
Central AC Market Drops 10% in First Half of 2012
According to the latest statistics, for the first half of 2012, the sales revenue of China’s central air conditioner market including VRFs declined by 10% compared to the same period last year. The industry hopes the market will rebound in the second half. Broken down by regions, except Anhui Province, sales in other Central China provinces including Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai saw diff...
Three-door Refrigerator Retail Value Ranks First in Market
In recent years, thanks to constant enterprise promotion as well as protection of industry policies, the three-door refrigerator has taken the leading share in the domestic market. As some data show, by the end of April 2012, the retail sales volume for three-door refrigerators has reached 34.6%, while the retail sales value reached 38.4%. At the same time, the retail sales volume for two-door ref...
Alfa Laval China Receives Best Corporate Brand Award
Alfa Laval China, the global leader in thermal transfer, separation and fluid processing technologies, received the ‘2012 Best Corporate Brand Award’ at the 2012 China Finance Summit held in Beijing. Award winners were selected based on four criteria: environmental friendliness, innovation, integrity and development. The selection procedure includes several rounds of careful screening and r...
Honeywell To Provide Safety & Security Solutions For New BAS
Aug 30, 2012 Honeywell will partner with BASF to provide complex, integrated safety and security solutions for its latest methylene diphenyl diiscoynate (MDI) plant being developed in Chongqing, China...
Sanhua Leads Micro Channel Heat Exchanger Technology
Micro channel heat exchangers (MCHE) are booming in HVAC&R industry, for its great advantage on the environment and efficiency to the traditional fin and tube (F&T) heat exchanger. Sanhua is l...
China Gas Association Distributed Energy Committee Formed
The distributed energy committee of the China Gas Association was recently established in Beijing. This professional committee was officially established receiving approval from the Ministry of Housin...
Chinese Data Center AC Market to Expand in 2012
It is estimated that China’s data center market reached RMB 2.9 billion (US$ 460 million) in 2011, and will grow to RMB 3.1 billion (US$ 490 million) in 2012. Base stations and core data centers toget...
Installation Regulation of VRFs Announced in Shanghai
On June 27, the Air Conditioning Professional Committee of Shanghai City Installation Industry Association held a press conference at the Radisson SAS Lansheng Hotel to announce the technical specification for installing heat pump VRFs. Officials from the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision and the Shanghai City Installation Association attended this conference. Other re...
McQuay Launches Inverter Type VRF MDS Carefree
McQuay has launched its new DC inverter type VRF MDS Carefree series, adopting high energy efficiency, low noise, intelligence and tailor-made features, which can be widely applied in commercial build...
Shanghai to Promote PE of Building Energy Consumption
According to the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, more than 600 existing state office buildings and large public buildings in Shanghai will install an energy consumption ‘physical examination’ (PE) system this year to monitor their energy consumption status as the baseline for later renovations,. The Internet-connected PE system will be installed using one uniform stand...
