ARLINGTON, Va. — Combined U.S. factory shipments of 682,810 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for July were down 1 percent compared to shipments from the same month last year, according to statistics from the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI).
Heat pump shipments of 147,634 were up 15 percent compared to July 2002. Total shipments for the first seven months of 2003 were down 1 percent from the same time period last year.