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NORTH AMERICAn INDUSTRY SURVEY
RESPONDENTS' PROFILE
35%
70%
30%
34,5%
60%
61,3%
54,1% 52,7%
40,5%
25%
26,4%
24,6%
50%
20%
40%
15%
18,3%
30%
37,9%
31,7%
10%
13,1%
9,9%
20%
25,4% 22,7%
20,1%
19,4%
5%
0%
Engineering
Contractor
System
Manufacturer
Component
Supplier
ORGANIZATION TYPES
End User
Training
Research
Consultancy
Marketing
3,4%
Association
10%
0%
Refrigeration
Commercial
Air Conditioning
Industrial &
Commercial
Refrigeration
Industrial
Refrigeration
Light-
Commercial
Heating -
Industrial &
Commercial
Air Conditioning
- Residential
ACTIVITIES / INDUSTRY SECTOR
Refrigeration
- Domestic
Heating -
Residential
Air Conditioning
- Mobile
Refrigeration
- Transport
Total responses: 556
87
More than one third of HVAC&R respondents represent
the engineering / contracting sector (35%), followed by
system manufacturers (26%), and component suppliers
(25%). Associations and marketing consultancies are
significantly less represented with values below 10%.
End-users make up close to one fifth of responses (18%),
whereas training & research activities are carried out by
13% of respondents. Multiple responses were possible.
The largest share of respondents (61%) is active in
the commercial refrigeration sector, followed by the
industrial & commercial air-conditioning business (54%),
and by industrial refrigeration (53%). Less pronounced
are activities in the light-commercial refrigeration
sector. Mobile air conditioning (20%) and transport
refrigeration (19%) attracted the lowest share of
respondents – industry sectors where the adoption of
natural refrigerants has not been as pronounced as in
other areas. Multiple responses were possible.