-2021 China Refrigeration Exhibition awarded YORK YVAG the outstanding energy-saving solution for residential heat pumps
-Demonstrating Johnson Controls’ dedication to sustainable development and innovation; meeting the growing market demand for professional heat pumps in Europe and China
-Strengthen Johnson Controls’ commitment to OpenBlue and its full set of interconnection technologies, products and services provided to customers and partners
Cork, Ireland, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), a global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, announces its YORK® AMICHI™ YMPA air-cooled vortex DC Inverter reversible heat pump, using low global warming potential (GWP) R454B refrigerant, won the annual heat pump product award in the 2021 ACR News Awards competition. Johnson Controls also won the 2021 CRH Innovation Award for its high-quality residential YORK YVAG heat recovery pump at the China Refrigeration Exhibition.
YORK AMICHI heat pump is one of the 11 winners of the annual competition, which aims to recognize the best products, companies and people from the air-conditioning and refrigeration industries. YORK YVAG is one of 112 products submitted by 52 companies, covering residential and commercial heating. The excellent energy-saving heat recovery system provides an excellent solution for year-round residential heating applications.
“These awards further demonstrate our dedication to innovation and sustainability and recognize products that have achieved significant changes in independent performance. When integrated with our OpenBlue platform, they have achieved sustainability and energy efficiency. Significant improvement,” Johnson’s chairman and CEO George Oliver said of Control. “Our European and Chinese teams have invested countless hours, conducted multiple field tests, and combined customer feedback to create these truly groundbreaking products.”
The award also supports Johnson Controls’ commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040 and increase customers’ opportunities to reduce carbon emissions. Johnson Controls recently announced plans to reduce operating emissions by 55% and customers’ emissions by 16% by 2030. Its OpenBlue platform, which is used to optimize the sustainability of buildings, will be at the core of achieving these goals and ultimately create an environment for healthy people, healthy places and the environment. A healthy planet.
Oliver stated that these awards reinforce Johnson Controls’ commitment to OpenBlue and the complete set of interconnected technologies, products and services it provides to customers and partners. OpenBlue was launched in 2020 and includes tailored artificial intelligence service solutions such as remote diagnosis, predictive maintenance, compliance monitoring and advanced risk assessment.
On a global scale, Europe has been leading the way to carbon neutrality by 2050. It has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030 (from 1990 levels) and proposes to increase this target to 55%. European Green Agreement (EGD). Recently, Europe has placed climate change and energy transition at the core of its economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, providing economic incentives for the implementation of low-carbon technologies and energy efficiency. The heat pump is an important part of the equation.
Jeff Williams, President of Johnson Controls Global Products, pointed out that YORK AMICHI and YVAG heat pumps are just two of Johnson Controls’ industry-leading heat pumps. Over the past 40 years, Johnson Controls has developed a broad portfolio of heat pumps for residential, commercial and industrial applications. These heat pumps are used as carbon-neutral heating sources while relying on low GWP refrigerants such as ammonia. The breadth of Johnson Controls’ product portfolio in terms of size, efficiency, and temperature range is world-class, and continues to help customers reduce carbon emissions. Since 2002, Johnson Controls has reduced its own greenhouse gas emission intensity by more than 70%.
“Heat pumps have always been the DNA of industrial refrigeration. They have been used in food and beverage, dairy and other processing industries to recover waste heat and convert it into low-cost, high-temperature heat,” Williams said. “Our technology is helping to meet the growing demand for heat pumps in the European and Chinese markets and other regions.”
Johnson Controls recently provided heat pump solutions for more than a dozen district heating and cooling applications in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Norway.
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The picture shows that YORK AMICHI (above) heat pumps provide low global warming potential refrigerants to meet the increasing market demand for professional heat pumps in Europe. In addition, the YORK YVAG heat recovery pump (bottom photo) is specifically designed to solve heating applications by integrating cooling, heating and hot water functions in one unit.