EDITORIAL LETTER

As a journalist and editor of ACR Latin America Magazine, I feel very indignant when I try to communicate with a certain company for an interview or consultation and their response is: "No thanks, I am not interested in participating."

Respecting, of course, all positions and decisions, I feel that these kinds of answers belong more to thoughts of the last century, when being conservative was a position that companies used to protect themselves from competition, so to speak.

At the beginning of this year I saw two pieces of news that caught my attention and that make me think that in Latin America you can progress in the same way as it happens in other latitudes in terms of regulations for air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

2018 will have different events that will give an interesting dynamic to the economic sector in each of the countries of Latin America. The context seems to be favorable, according to analysts, which we expect will also have an impact on our HVAC/R industry.

The Internet changed our lives. Nowadays many of our functions, tasks, appointments, even business, depend heavily on this platform. It is clear that this technology has led us to progress, that we are already much better informed, that we can control what we want to see, we can even buy almost anything we want.

Several Latin American cities have become the epicenter of development par excellence for various industries, including our guild of air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration. This is largely mediated by the region's peaceful economies and the protectionist policies of the governments of those countries.