ARLINGTON, VA — Combined U.S. factory shipments of 358,596 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps in October were up 12 percent from October 2001, according to statistics provided by the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI).
Heat pump shipments of 88,191 units were down 6 percent from October 2001. Combined shipments for the first ten months of 2002 are up 7 percent from those of last year.