When walking into the LG Components 2020 AHR booth, one of the first things a visitor would see is LG Component’s display of compressors. In 2006, LG started selling compressors into the U.S. market. In the first year, it sold 16,000 compressors. This past year, the company sold 1.6 million in the U.S. market. And at the 2020 AHR Expo, the company announced the addition of a new compressor to its product line — the R1. The product will launch in late spring 2020.
The R1 compressor is engineered for energy-efficient operation in residential and light commercial applications It has evolved from LG’s traditional scroll compressor and rotary compressor, providing efficiency improvements including a hybrid scroll wrap, a lower-sound-generating structure, and a mid-bearing scroll assembly that reduces tilting movement, thereby lowering wasted energy usage.