ARLINGTON, Va. - Combined U.S. factory shipments of 388,533 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for November were up 9 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 116,964 also jumped 26 percent compared to November 2003. Total shipments of 6,443,615 units are up 1 percent from 2002 and are on pace to meet or exceed 2002 record shipments of 6,746,326 units.