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Daikin announces new R&D centre to develop commercial air conditioning |
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
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Daikin
has announced the opening of a new $52m R&D facility to develop global
products and  facilitate their rapid introduction to the market, intending to
take a leading role in large commercial air conditioning. The new facility
at the Daikin McQuay Applied Development Centre in Minneapolis will be the centre for the
development of screw and centrifugal chillers and other large applied air
conditioning products.
The new R&D facility is capable of simulating ambient
temperatures of -20ºC to 60ºC and testing to the differing supply frequencies
and voltages of each country of the world. It will call on Daikin's heat pump
and inverter technologies and McQuay's applied air conditioning system technologies
and will be used to develop global base models and customise them to regional
requirements.
According to Daikin, the company now intends to take advantage of its
acquisition of the OYL Group, which included McQuay, a company with the world's
fourth largest share of the large-scale commercial air conditioning market, and
has prepared a product development system to lead in applied air conditioning
in each region of the world.
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