Summary

Chapter 1:

• Introduction
• Report coverage

Chapter 2:

• The market
• Consumer demands
  
• Suppliers
  
• Market shares
  
• World market
  
  • European market
    
  • North American market
    
  • South American market
    
  • Japanese market
    
• Market forecast
  
  • Overview
    
  • European market
    
  • North American market
    
  • Japanese market
    
  • Asian market
    
  • World market
    
• Aftermarket opportunities
  
  • Merger, acquisition and joint venture activity
    

Chapter 3: Technical review

• Air conditioning: How it works
  
• HVAC module: What is it?
  
• Some trends in automotive air conditioning and climate control
  
• Impacts of diesel engines
  
• Modularisation
  
• Air conditioner design time to be cut
  
• Fuel consumption concerns still paramount
  

Chapter 4: Manfacturers

• Behr
  
• Calsonic Kansei
  
• Delphi Automotive Systems
  
• Denso
  
• Sanden
  
• Valeo
  
• Visteon
  
• Zexel

List of figures

• Figure 1 Behr's consumer survey: the growing importance of air conditioning systems as a comfort feature, 1995 and 2001
  

• Figure 2 Behr's consumer survey: full automation and independent adjustment capability for driver and front seat passenger have high innovation potential and are considered an attractive feature by around half of drivers
  
• Figure 3 Shares of the global OE air conditioning system market, 2000
  
• Figure 4 Shares of the Western European OE air conditioning system market, 2000
  
• Figure 5 Shares of the North American OE air conditioning system market, 2000
  
• Figure 6 Shares of the South American OE air conditioning system market, 2000
  
• Figure 7 Shares of the Japanese OE air conditioning system market, 2000
  
• Figure 8 Coolant circuit of an air conditioning system
  
• Figure 9 Trends in automotive air conditioning
  
• Figure 10 Visteon's CO2 system
  
• Figure 11 Visteon's energy efficient thermal system
  
• Figure 12 Reducing ventilation loss with a lwo-layer flow
  
• Figure 13 Denso's two-layer flow HVAC system
  
• Figure 14 Denso's single fin cooling module
  
• Figure 15 Behr's sales by product division, 2000
  
• Figure 16 Behr's climatic wind tunnel (1 of 2)
  
• Figure 17 Behr's climatic wind tunnel (2 of 2)
  
• Figure 18 Behr's thermal dummy
  
• Figure 19 Solar radiation on the vehicle
  
• Figure 20 Valeo's fragrance diffuser
  
• Figure 21 Valeo's air quality sensor
  
• Figure 22 Valeo's thermal management intelligent system
  

List of tables

• Table 1 Production of sunroofs to all light vehicles, Western Europe, Japan and North America, 2000-2005
  

• Table 2 Climate Control System manufacturers and products supplied
  
• Table 3 Air conditioning: Who supplies whom in Europe, 2001
  
• Table 4 Western Europe: air conditioning penetration by vehicle segment, 2000-2010
  
• Table 5 Worldwide OE sales of air conditioning systems for passenger car applications, Western Europe, Japan, NAFTA and Worldwide, 1999-2005
  
• Table 6 Recent major merger, acquisition and joint venture activity in the HVAC equipment sector