Carlo
Grossi,
CEO of DeLclima S.p.A. – the parent company of Climaveneta –
visited Bangalore for the exhibition. He looks at India as a
significant market in the medium and long term, and foresees a lot of
work preparing the ground for the future. He feels that the decision
to start a manufacturing facility at Bangalore was good and timely.
Climaveneta plans to launch its Climapro chiller plant manager for
high end real time chiller optimization based on embedded performance
graphs that help chiller sequencing.
Ingersoll
Rand Climate Solutions showcased
its air cooled chillers, water cooled chillers, condenser-less units,
air-to-water and water-to-water heat pumps, air handling units,
terminal units, rooftops, split systems and condensing units,
residential ACs, VRFs, and AMS advanced multi-splits.
Sudarshan
Ananth,
Senior Director, Ingersoll Rand highlighted that seven variants
across a spectrum of products were launched by IR in the last one
year. These include high efficiency water cooled chiller, Dragon
screw chiller from China, and RTAF air cooled chiller. On the cold
chain front, the Chennai plant of Thermo King has started production.
Service offerings are also being expanded. The rental offering has
been extended to light commercial systems. Auto tube cleaning is
being offered as a part of new chillers, as well as a retrofit –
even for non-IR chillers. Retrofit with VFD is also being offered
now.
Tecumseh
Products India manufactures
compressors with three technologies – reciprocating, rotary and
screw. It produces 3.5 million compressors annually for domestic and
commercial refrigeration applications. Its stall exhibited air
conditioning and refrigeration compressors, and split ACs – a
business it has entered recently in India. The company is also
expanding into condensing units and outdoor units.
Caryaire
is
a joint venture between Nicotra Gebhardt S.p.A. and Caryaire
Equipments India. Both Nicotra Gebhardt and Caryaire brands were on
display in the large prominently located stall, showcasing light and
medium duty centrifugal
and axial fans. The company has recently launched plug fans with
aerofoil blades. Caryaire won a special mention in the Innovation
category in 2015 ACREX Awards of Excellence.
Thermax
exhibited
its triple effect absorption chiller that won the 2015 ACREX Award of
Excellence in the Energy Efficiency category. Its vapour absorption
chiller, which generates chilled water at 1°C using special
metallurgy and controls to prevent water freeze-up, was the runner up
in the 10th Bry-Air Awards in the product design category.
Mitsubishi
Electric India showcased
a wide range of HVAC products like Mr. Slim room air conditioners
(fixed speed and inverter), heat pumps, light commercial and packaged
air conditioners, and City Multi VRFs with scroll compressor using
inverter technology.
Hitachi
Home & Life Solutions (India) manufactures
window and split RACs, commercial ACs including chillers, VRF
systems, ductables and telecom ACs at its plant in Kadi, Gujarat. It
displayed its inverter models using R410A and fixed speed models
using R22.
Shanghai
Hitachi Electrical Appliances Company is
a joint venture between Highly Group of China and Hitachi Ltd. of
Japan, for the manufacture of rotary compressors for room ACs. It
displayed its range of rotary compressors.
International
Aircon is
the Indian distributor for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Japan.
Its prominent stall had a display of MHI’s wide range of HVAC
products, including high wall splits, cassettes, ductable ACs and VRF
systems.
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