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March Shipments Up Seven Percent from Last Year

ARLINGTON, VA - Combined U.S. factory shipments of 780,407 central air conditioners and airsource heat pumps for March were up seven percent, compared to shipments from the same month last year, according to Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI). Heat pump shipments of 188,512 were also

up twelve percent compared to March 2004. Total shipments of 1,667,520 units for the first three months of 2005 are up five percent.

U.S. factory shipments of unitary air conditioners and heat pumps during March 2005 (see Chart A):

* totaled 780,407,

* up 7% from March 2004,

* year-to-date total 1,667,520,

* up 5% from January - March 2004.

Heat pump shipments included in the March 2005 figures (see Chart B):

* totaled 188,512,

* up 12% from March 2004,

* year-to-date total 442,415,

* up 6% from January - March 2004.

March 2005 factory stocks:

* up 67,261 units from February 2005,

* down 68,581 units from March 2004.

March 2005 distributor inventories:

* up 98,210 units from February 2005,

* up 94,122 units from March 2004.

March 2005 distributor shipments:

* up 7% from March 2004,

* year-to-date shipments up 9%.

Inventory figures are estimates that are derived from the best available figures supplied by a sample of ARI member companies.

IMAGE CHART 1

Chart A. Unitary Shipments, January 2003 - March 2005

Chart B. Air Source Heat Pump Shipments, January 2003 March 2005

This report is published monthly reflecting industry figures of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps

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