Large cooling still needs a resumption of investment

Large cooling, for commercial ventures such as shopping malls and corporate slabs can continue suffering the consequences of the economic crisis, which has reduced your production and still impacts the investments in the area.
According to the President of the Brazilian Association of refrigeration, air conditioning, ventilation and heating (Abrava), Arnaldo Basile Jr., the segment was boosted by the boom of the construction market, which followed until the middle of this decade. "With regard to central air conditioning segment, used for larger enterprises, unfortunately there was no recovery yet in 2017, just stabilization. The recovery expected for last year may be for 2018, "he says.
The leader, who this week the fair Expo Chicago 2018, AHR in the USA, the main global event, points out that the resumption of the market will depend on the rhythm of growth of the economy, which would pull again the investments, mainly those of civil construction.
"Historically, our industry always grew at least double or triple of what grows the GDP of the brazilian economy. So in 2018 should occur an advancement of the industry revenues as a whole, "he says.
According to him, with the confirmation of the recovery, the large area – which includes central air conditioners, chillers (chillers) and VRF/VRV (evaporators) – could achieve, in optimistic, an increase between 5% and 6% of tons of Refrigeration (TR), which is the measure used by the sector to measure the rate of growth, since a smaller number of units sold could be offset by greater cooling capacity. According to the Association, this thread presented high of 230,000 tons of TR in 2017, a result similar to 2016.
The difficulty of resumption of this segment is given by the long process of maturing investments, between the decision of construction, execution of the work and your submission, with the consequent acquisition of refrigeration equipment, theoretically one of the last components of a work.
In the field of refrigeration for supermarkets, cold industries – such as food manufacturers – and convenience stores, there was a smaller impact of the crisis, due to the need of the companies to maintain the machines always in operation. "The cooling markets have suffered less than air conditioning, since there's not much room to hold the Exchange", explains. According to him, a resumption of consumption of nondurable goods – such as food and beverage – can ensure a high of TR around 5% this year. Among the reasons for the acquisition of new equipment is the search for devices that, in some cases, arrive to consume 40 percent less energy.
Accommodation
On the other hand, the residential segment has already started your resume from last year, when the expansion, in terms of TR, arrived approximately 7%. For this year, the high could reach 10%. Only in the air conditioners of the split type, the change may be more considerable, between 10% and 12%. In a consolidated manner, the increase could vary positively between 7% and 8% this year.
These numbers reflect a big reversal of production, whereas the residential and central cooling segments, which retreated 60% in 2015 and 2016, after the peak of 6.5 million expansion of TR marketed only in 2014.
Export
In Brazil, most of the air conditioning industries installed in Brazil is foreign, but there is a range of national companies that are exporting, mainly for countries of Latin America, such as Argentina and Mexico. "Small businesses are selling components such as filtering systems, electronics, and of air," says Basile, about 12 companies at the Expo Chicago, on a mission sponsored by Apex-Brazil and Abrava.