Energy saving has become a key issue for the accelerated upgrading of China’s household air conditioner industry . The total whole-year shipment of 81.8 million sets of China’s household air conditioners far exceeded manufacturer’s anticipation; the recovery in the global demand for air conditioners further greatly boosted enterprises’ confidence. It can be argued that the development of China’s household air conditioner industry for industry year 2010 has reported one after another success.
Energy saving and eco friendliness become focus of the industry
The energy saving and eco-friendly requirement on the one hand drives the enterprises to speed up the elimination of backward air conditioners, on the other hand it pushes forward full-scale upgrading of the air conditioner industry. To empty stock and phase out backward products, reducing product price become the top choice to the manufacturers. This drives down the average prices of domestic products in 2010, and is also
the key reason behind the fact that the sales income growth in the first quarter and first half year of many listed companies evidently fell below the growth in production and sales as reflected in our statistical data. The great number of consumers became the largest beneficiaries of the state government’s energy saving policies.
On the other hand, mainstream enterprises in the industry intensified efforts in R&D, and introduced a variety of energy saving and ecofriendly products. Because energy saving is a key advantage of variable frequency air conditioners. In 2010, mainstream brands including Chigo, Midea, Haier, Hisense Kelon all intensified deployment efforts in variable frequency air conditioners. Chigo Air Conditioner introduced new variable frequency products with energy efficiency ratio (EER) up to 8.36, which created the top record in EER worldwide, Chigo also pioneered energy saving technology of variable frequency ice cold storage in central air conditioning system sector; Midea Air Conditioner adopted three core components to fully enhance energy saving effects of the products; Haier Air Conditioner is equipped with four fold energy saving safeguards, thus fully achieved the fast heating, power saving and eco friendly functions of Haier Freon-free variable frequency air conditioners. Hisense Kelon is long dedicated to the promotion and development of highly energy efficient air conditioners, its subordinate Hisense Air Conditioner introduced the first variable air conditioner in China, and for many years afterward it dedicated itself to the R&D of variable frequency technology.
Written by Nicolas Yang
