(Adnkronos) – “For the air conditioning sector, the first quarter of 2024 is confirmed from the outset as a difficult year to interpret, with some sectors, such as residential, certainly suffering more than others due to the policies on tax credits and with very positive numbers in areas other than residential. The heterogeneity of the results reflects the complexity of a sector which in any case has a single common thread: the increase in investments in national production and the attempt of an industry to strengthen itself while remaining rooted. to the territory”. This was told to Adnkronos/Labitalia by engineer Federico Musazzi, association manager of Assoclima-constructors of air conditioning systems, an autonomous association federated to Anima Confindustria, where various product groups converge: electric heat pumps, air conditioning devices and systems, rooftops, chillers, fan coils, cooling towers, fans, ventilation and air handling units (uta), residential ventilation units (vmc). Data in hand shows a slightly uphill start in the first quarter of 2024 for the air conditioning sector: the data collected by Assoclima in the January-March period indicate modest growth in terms of units and slightly negative percentages in value in the direct expansion sector, one of the most economically significant product categories. As of March 31, 2024, the data shows a percentage change of +0.3% in volume and -6.8% in value for monosplit air conditioners and of +2.3% in volume and -3.2% in value for systems multisplit. However, the miniVRF and VRF systems saw slight growth in both volume (+3.9%) and value (+2.9%). The performance of air-cooled hydronic equipment was negative, for which the Assoclima survey revealed overall percentage data (cooling + heating) of -34.2% in volume and -17.4% in value. The figure is mainly affected by the decline in sales of hydronic heat pumps intended for the residential sector: the first quarter of 2024 reports -33.3% in volume and -36.1% in value for models with power up to 10 kW, and -46% in volume and -49.3% in value for equipment with powers from 11 to 17 kW. Positive signals arrive from the water-condensed liquid chillers, which close the first quarter of 2024 with +38.1% in volume and +10.8% in value, from the air treatment plants (+18.8%% in volume and +18.4%% in value), from systems for residential mechanical ventilation (+4.2% in volume and +15.8% in value), from packaged and rooftop air conditioners (+25.5% in volume and +20.2% in value) and from packaged air conditioners (+75.6% in volume and +83.8% in value). Assoclima’s survey then records negative percentages for terminal units (-5.8% in volume and -3.7% in value) and transferable air conditioners (-32.5% in volume and -39.7% in value). —lavoro/[email protected] (Web Info)
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