MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada — The Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) announced that its annual statistics forecast for the year 2003 projects that residential air conditioning shipments and residential furnace shipments will decrease by 6% and 3% respectively compared to the projected 2002 figures. Commercial air conditioning shipments are predicted to remain the same as those in 2002.
The 2001 actual, projected 2002, and forecasted 2003 figures are as follows: