International. The demand for air conditioning systems for vehicles is currently divided between Asia, the European Union and America, with the largest markets in China (26.1%) and Europe (22.3%), according to a study published by the Green Cooling Initiative.
The demand for this class of systems follows the production of automobiles. Most of the cars are manufactured by some dominant brands in the US, Japan and Europe.
In Latin America, Brazil and Mexico are the countries with the largest markets in this sector. In unit sales, Brazil reports 4.9% of the world total of 52 million units, while Mexico occupies 1.2%. In the production of these systems, Brazil registers 4% of the total and Mexico 2.6%.
The estimated global distribution of the production of cars equipped with air conditioning systems in 2012 is 57 million units, including 13.3 million in Europe, 13.2 in China, 8.6 in Japan, 4.1 in the United States, 4 in South Korea, 2.6 in India and 2.3 in Brazil.
Japan (4.6 million unit sales, and production capacity of 8.6) and the European Union (11.3 million unit sales, and production capacity of 13.3), which have a surplus of production over sales, are considered to be the leading automotive exporting countries.
