new delhi ac sales are on fire charged up by the scorching heat across many parts of the country top manufacturers such as lg voltas godrej and lloyd have seen record sales this season even leading to shortages in some of the markets where demand remains strongwith temperature soaring in most parts of the country ac makers are expecting the surge in demand to continue for some more weeks making 2019 one of the strongest bumper seasons after many years of slowtomoderate numberstill midmarch the market was not that great and we had average sales after march 15 there has been a tremendous growth in demand something that we have not witnessed over the past decade or so vijay babu vp home appliances at lg india told toi in april and may we faced a stockout situation across some of the locations we are ramping up numbersbabu said lg has doubled its manpower in ac business and now has almost 8000 technicians as it catches up with the strong demand most of our technical manpower has been diverted towards ac business a key demand of customers generally is to get sameday installation and thus we have increased our team strengthcompanies have been asking component makers for fresh supplies as inventory levels dry uppradeep bakshi md ceo of market leader voltas said numbers have moved up by doubledigits this year our preparation for this season had started almost by fourth quarter of last year and thus we were organised and stocked up by februaryjapanese brand panasonic has also seen brisk numbers with heavy footfalls at dealerships triggered by the heightened demand for appliances in the summer season ac sales started on a positive note we have recorded strong numbers in april and may clocking over 40 growth manish sharma president ceo of panasonic india said sharma said demand is there not only for entry models but even for more sophisticated higherspecification modelsshashi arora ceo of havellsowned lloyd said 60 of ac sales happen in summer primarily between march and june easy consumer finance has helped drive in numbers and nearly 90 of demand is coming for split acs there has been healthy pickup for energyefficient inverter acs also