Appliance Design
magazine has announced the winners of its 21st
Annual Excellence in Design competition. Thirty-five
winning products were named from a record number of
entries.
Entrants were evaluated by an
independent panel of three experts in the field of
design. The products were judged by four criteria:
aesthetics, human factors, innovation, and technical
merits.
Products were entered into one of several
categories. The winning entries, listed by category
below, received recognition at one of three levels:
Gold, Silver, or Bronze.
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more...
U.S. factory shipments of
residential cooling and heating equipment declined in
February, compared with the same month a year ago, while
the commercial market for these products maintained
steady growth, according to the Air-Conditioning,
Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI).Read
more...
Underwriters Laboratories
(UL), of Northbrook, Ill., a world leader of product
safety testing services, recently issued the first
Normas Oficiales Mexicanas (NOM) Mark to a global
electronics manufacturing customer entering the Mexican
market. In a global marketplace with multiple standard
certifications, companies need to be able to go through
a single third party testing organization such as UL for
all their product certification needs in order to move
products into the market more quickly. UL worked closely
with the government of Mexico to obtain accreditation as
a third-party product certification organization to help
speed entry into the market. Read
more...
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"This acquisition represents a
milestone in our 130-plus-year corporate history
and points Henkel clearly in the direction of
further profitable growth," said Ulrich Lehner,
Chairman of the Management Board of Henkel KGaA.
The acquisition was preceded by the carve-out of
the businesses to be acquired by Henkel and the
requisite antitrust and anticompetitive
investigations by the relevant authorities.
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more...
Samsung Electronics has
acquired the IP assets of Clairvoyante Inc., an IP
licensing company based in Cupertino, Calif., that
developed the PenTile subpixel rendering display
technology and associated gamut mapping
algorithms. The financial terms of the agreement
were not disclosed.Read
more ...
Perlick Corporation
has surpassed Energy Star standards by an average
of 23.7% on its products receiving the Energy Star
award since February 2007. Continuing its
commitment to green practices, Perlick is proud to
announce, after an extensive study, its usage of
ecomate, a new blowing agent and family of
polyurethane foam systems, as the best choice in
its efforts to maintain eco-friendly manufacturing
practices. Read
more.
Oneida Ltd., the 128
year old company with products including tabletops
and kitchen gadgets for both the consumer and food
service industries worldwide, signed a licensing
agreement with Greystone Brands Ltd. Under the
terms of the agreement, Greystone will license the
Oneida brand for use in marketing a wide range of
small electrics products for home kitchen
use.Learn
more.
63rd National Hardware Show and Lawn
& Garden World May 6-8, Las Vegas,
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The Gourmet Housewares
Show May 6-8, Las Vegas, Nev. Contact:
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SMMA
Spring Management Conference May 7-9, Palm Beach
Gardens, Fla. Contact: 508/979-5935 Webhttp://www.appliancedesign.com www.smma.org
AHRI Spring Meeting May 17-20, Colorado Springs,
Co. Contact: 703/524-8800 Webhttp://www.appliancedesign.com www.ahrinet.org
The
first major phase change for refrigerants has not even
been completed yet and
already many are urging yet another. The long, hard,
costly journey away from ozone-depleting
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which began in the early
90s, continues, with a 2010 step down in production and
eventual phase out of hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC)-22
refrigerant in new HVAC/R applications. But soon after
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) became the established
alternative, many in Europe began urging yet another
costly, arduous trek - away from HFCs and toward
"natural refrigerants." The igniter behind all the
commotion is the hot topic of the day - global
warming.Read
more ...
Cooling with the
power of sound might very well represent the next
wave in refrigeration. The science behind the idea
is called thermoacoustics, and was originally
developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The
technology has since matured into an
environmentally friendly cooling technique that is
now available for some cryogenic applications and
poised to break out into larger markets.
Learn
more.
Improving the efficiency
of vapor-compression systems has justifiably focused on
the electro-mechanical devices that actually consume
energy, such as compressors and fans, but more attention
is now being paid to heat exchangers, those passive,
unheralded components that play a key role in overall
system efficiency. It's actually a dual role, as one
heat exchanger rejects heat on the condenser side of the
system and another heat exchanger absorbs heat on the
evaporator side. Find
out more.
