Refrigerant
EU Sets PFAS Restrictions in Consumer Products
May 11, 2023 By Roberta Canciello, senior technical specialist, Retail Consumer Products team, UL Solutions Several regulatory actions are being taken to regulate per- and polyfluoro...
Trialogue negotiation on F-Gas Regulation: final text before
05 May 2023 In an article for La Rpf – Revue Pratique du Froid, the AFCE (Alliance Froid Climatisation Environnement) suggested that a final text may emerge from the trialogue discussions...
AREA welcomes the launch of the European Year of Skills 2023
9 May 2023 To achieve the EU’s decarbonisation goals and deployment of clean, low-carbon and efficient heating and cooling technologies, a skilled workforce with the proper training and...
While most EU economic sectors saw emission increases in 202
05 May 2023 The EU National Inventory Report (NIR) for GHG emissions, published on the UNFCCC website, shows that total GHG emissions (including Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, or LULUCF, and...
A-Gas Breaks Ground on Additional Refrigerant Separation Tow
A-Gas broke ground on another set of separation towers at its Rhome, Texas plant, strengthening the company’s commitment to the circular economy. This expansion project is another example of A-G...
Arkema Helps Its Customers Select Most Sustainable Refrigera
At 2023 AHR Expo held at the beginning of February in Atlanta, the United States, JARN visited Arkema’s booth and interviewed Scot Swan, its business manager, Refrigerants, Fluorochemicals, to h...
Key message of the President of the Organizing Committee: F-
5 May 2023 This 10th IIR conference was organized by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – Skopje in cooperation with the International Institute of Refrigeration. This event was org...
March 2023: An active communication and awareness campaign f
March 2023 was marked by a series of communication events for INDEE+, gathering all project partners and key Indian HVAC&R stakeholders in India. Date : 2023/04/26 Subject : Developing c...
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...
