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Dark Cloud Casts Shadow on 2009 AC Market
The year 2008 will definitely be remembered as the most imbalanced year in the last ten years. In the first three quarters of the year, almost all of the air conditioner manufacturers were plagued by increased production costs caused by the roaring prices of crude oil and other raw materials. In the fourth quarter of this year, the entire world, including the air conditioning industry, was swept b...
Nitrogen Trifluoride May be Included in the List of Emission
Representatives, attending the United States Climate Change Negotiation in Accra, the capital of Ghana said on August 22, that the emissions of nitrogen trifluoride, fluorinated ether and other industrial gases increase dramatically during the production of LCD television and refrigerants in recent years. Thus nitrogen trifluoride, fluorinated ether and other industrial gases are possible to be li...
Meitav-tec Announces New Fan Coil Thermostat
Meitav-tec, one of the world leading companies in the area of intelligent HVAC temperature controls in Israel, is launching a new distinguished Fan-Coil thermostat, FMHC220-FC-MDB01, which is an upgraded version of the popular, widely sold FMH220-FC-SUPER3, and includes also Modbus communication interface to be compatible for Building Management Systems (BMS). With the new FMHC220-FC-MDB01 thermos...
AMCA and AFMA Technologies Join Forces in Singapore
The Air Movement and Control Association International (AMCA) and Singapore-based AFMA Technologies have joined forces on HVAC product ratings. Last September, AMCA and AFMA entered into a Memorandum ...
Bosch Joins Chicago Climate Exchange
Aug. 1, 2008. The Bosch Group has become a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction, registry, and trading program. In joining, Bosch has committed to achieve a 6% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in its U.S. operations by 2010, from a baseline of the company’s average greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2000. The company m...
Financial Storm Slams Air Conditioning Industry
Recent weeks have been the climax of a longstanding recipe for disaster that boasted such ingredients as deregulation, sub-prime loans, and a housing bubble. The result could be the worst economic cri...
Form-E helps Aux ACs’ Exports to Malaysia
In June 2006, Aux declared Form-E to Yinzhou Entry- Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau for Air- conditioners exported to Malaysia, which helped Aux establish stable international customer base. In July 2005, an agreement on merchandise trade between China and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) came into effect comprehensively, following mutual tariff cuts on products under agreement and originally...
Was This Summer Hot ?
An analysis of number of hot days in major markets Room air conditioner (RAC) sales volume may be determined by external factors such as temperature, business conditions and new home construction starts, and by internal factors such as the introduction of new products by air conditioner manufacturers and advertising/sales promotional activities to distributors and end users. RACs are ...
