International. United Tech, one of the largest North American manufacturers of air conditioning equipment recently reported that its sales in the previous year rose by 0.6%, a significant fact if one takes into account the current economic crisis that large countries are going through.
The previous figure is equivalent to US$14.97 billion. However, market analysts' expectations were well above that figure ($100 million more). This is a reflection of the low demand from countries such as China, according to the financial president of the multinational, Greg Hayes, in an interview for the portal Terra.com.
Despite the decline, the organization announced that its profit target for 2012 forecasts an increase of between 6 and 9%. Added to this, the acquisition of the Goodrich company for US $ 16,500 million, which is still pending and will add to this year's profits, counts as positive.
Another North American company that welcomes the arrival of 2012 is Rockwell, manufacturer of industrial automation systems, where they consider that the growth will be from 5 to 13%. For this multinational 2011 was not good either, which is why this year is so important to recover and position itself in international markets taking advantage of the arrival of summer in the middle of the year.
In this way and slowly the companies of the industry are emerging from the crisis in which they were plunged in the last two years.
