Harold Karp, CEO, Tecumseh Products Co., Ann Arbor, Michigan, introduces the company’s revamped, enhanced compressors during a press conference at the 2015 AHR Expo in Chicago.

Tecumseh is deeming 2015 as the year of new products.

During a press conference Monday at the 2015 AHR Expo, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company pledged its support behind a new board of directors; a new CEO, Harold Karp; and the power of 2, introducing the AK², AJ², and TA² compressor lines. Each compressor is designed to offer high-efficiency performance and capacity in a smaller package. The AK², AJ² and TA² Series are all smaller, more efficient, and in most cases, quieter, when compared to the company’s previous units. All three are also optimized for green refrigerants such as R-290 (propane), R-600a, and R-1234yf.

The Tecumseh compressor offering also includes new VSC air conditioning and commercial refrigeration scroll and TA light commercial refrigeration compressor models, an AG “stretch” version with increased capacity, an Eclipse² direct current (DC) model, and a new higher-efficiency AW² air conditioning model.

“We took our AE compressor and started over from the beginning,” said Keith Gifford, director of global marketing. “We ended up with a group of HC [hydrocarbon]-optimized compressors that offer more capacity in the same footprint, or smaller.”