China

2012.02.08

Galanz Q-series Inverter ACs Enter Market

Inverter air conditioners started to have a price advantage since the end of the national home appliance subsidy policies. In February 2011, Galanz entered the inverter air conditioner market. With th...

2012.02.12

Shenzhen Takes Lead Promoting HC Refrigerant AC

Shenzhen has been taking a lead in promoting the HC refrigerant air conditioner. Recently, the Shenzhen Residence Environment Committee organized residential air conditioner service technician HCFC operation training so as to widely promote the application of the new environmentally friendly HC refrigerant residential air conditioner, which replaces the R22 refrigerant that is currently used in mo...

2012.02.07

Heat Pump Refrigerants for Sustainable Future

- Recently Released Issue of Heat Pump Centre Newsletter   Heat pumps are a key technology in reducing CO2 emissions. However, most residential heat pumps presently use hydrofluorocarbons(HFCs)or hydrochlorofluorocarbons(HCFCs) as refrigerant, which have various degrees of global warming potential (GWP), from low to very high. Combating climate change calls for heat pumps with low greenhouse ...

2012.02.07

Fuerda Holds First Sales Meeting with Carrier

Shandong Fuerda Air-conditioner Equipment held its 2012 national sales meeting at the Ramada Hotel Wujiaochang Shanghai. About 200 distributors have attended the meeting.   Wang Fuming, chairman ...

2012.02.02

Energy Efficient Solar Water Heating Systems to be Standardi

The ‘Minimum allowable values of energy efficiency and energy efficiency grades for domestic solar water heating systems’ was recently approved by the relevant national agency and will be implemented during the 9th China (Changsha) Exhibition of Solar-Energy Products to be held on March, 15, 2012.   The drafting of the standard was led by the National Development and Reform Commission, China ...

2012.02.05

China Heat Pump Industrial Alliance Council Founded

The Heat Pump Industrial Alliance Council of the China Energy-saving Association held its founding ceremony at the National People’s Congress Conference Center on December 8, 2011.   With the adv...

2012.02.05

Panasonic Targets Rural Market

The director of Panasonic Appliances Air-Conditioning (Guangzhou) sales department said that the share of inverter air conditioners in the Chinese market would increase in 2012 and lead to fiercer com...

2012.02.04

TCL Increases Net Profit by 120% in 2011

According to the 2011 performance report from TCL released on January 4, 2012, the company’s net profit in 2011 is estimated to be between RMB 950 million and 1.1 billion (US$ 150 - 175 million), an i...

2012.02.02

China Refrigeration

The 23rd International Exhibition for Refrigeration, Air-conditioning, Heating and Ventilation, Frozen Food Processing, Packaging and Storage will be held on April 11-13, in New China International Ex...

2012.02.23

Gree Develops Large Centrifugal Chiller with Built-in DC Inv

- Expanded Cooling Capacity up to 1,400 RT   China-based Gree recently announced that it had developed a series of high efficiency centrifugal chillers adopting an inverter-driven DC permanent ma...