Refrigerant
Past events: The IIR around the world, April 2023
2023/04/26 This month, the IIR conference on HFOs welcomed 200 delegates, and one of Asia's largest exhibitions in HVACR, China Refrigeration, set a new record with 60,000 visitors and 1,100 exhi...
EPA Announces Enforcement Actions to Control HFC Imports
On March 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced civil penalties applied to imports of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as part of the HFC phasedown being implemented under the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act. Importers of HFCs are required to report the quantities of HFCs they import under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) and comply with the allowance syst...
Europe Accelerates HFC Phase-out
On March 30, 2023, the European Parliament decided to accelerate the phase-down of fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) and to achieve total phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by 2050. Then on A...
Hoshizaki to Adopt Natural Refrigerants for All Domestic Ref
Hoshizaki has started accepting orders for commercial-use non-fluorinated hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerant refrigerators from May 2022 and freezers from August 2022 in the Japanese market. At present, the...
New Refrigerant and R290 Technology Forum Opened
On February 18, the New Refrigerant and R290 Technology Forum took place. The event was named after Emerson Climate Technologies (Suzhou). ...
First Supermarket Chain Installs Honeywell’s Solstice N71 Re
On February 6, Honeywell announced that the first supermarket had installed refrigeration equipment using its R471A refrigerant, marketed under the brand name Solstice N71. The refrigerant is being us...
Chemours Receives Two Awards from U.S. Department of Energy’
April 13, 2023 The company was recognized for its outstanding accomplishments in energy efficiency and emissions reduction at the DOE Better Buildings, Better Plants Summit WILMINGTO...
BESA Calls For Calm In Face of F-Gas Furore
APR 12, 2023 The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has urged the UK government to keep “a sense of perspective” in the face of a growing row over the European Commission&...
F-Gas Mandate Lacks Sufficient Precision
Risk to Europe’s Energy Transition Remains Brussels, 6th April 2023: An alliance of 10 leading European associations and global partners responded to the European Council’s announcement...
Joint industry letter ahead of F-Gas COREPER I meeting
Apr 5, 2023 Eurovent signed a joint industry letter together with twelve other associations on COREPER, showing concern about the adopted European Parliament Report and the recently publi...
eurammon Symposium 2023
Apr 5, 2023 the eurammon symposium 2023 provides expert knowledge on current developments and applications with natural refrigerants. Frankfurt, 5 April 2023 – From 26 to 30 Ju...
Adoption of the European Parliament’s position on F-gas: Amb
Apr 03, 2023 AREA, the European association of refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump (RACHP) contractors, is concerned by the European Parliament’s position on the revision of the F-gas...
