Refrigerant
Carrier Confirms its Low Global Warming Potential Refrigeran
MONTLUEL, France - Jun. 5, 2019 Carrier confirms its refrigerant strategy in Europe by choosing HFO refrigerants with low Global Warming Potential (GWP) for most of its commercial heating, ventilatin...
Chemours Receives Sustainability Award for Opteon Refrigeran
Sources report Chemours' next generation of more sustainable, low-Global Warming Potential refrigerants is becoming accepted around the world. WILMINGTON, Del., June 4, 2019 — The C...
NEDO Begins Development of Next-Generation Refrigerants
On April 25, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) announced that it has launched the development of next-generation types of refrigerants centering on green refrige...
Refrigerant Supply Situation in China
Recently, the price of refrigerants, such as the hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerant R22, has been soaring with a supply shortage of refrigerant raw materials such as fluorite. Such a phenomeno...
Petra Starts a New Project with UNIDO Aiming to Implement Us
Petra started a new project aiming to implement the use of propane (R290) in the manufacturing of large com mercial unitary roof-top air conditioning units with capacities of up to 400 kW at Petra in ...
Washington Signs HFC Bill & Vermont Announces HFC Plan
By Alec Johnson May 30, 2019 A few more dominoes fell this week in the HFC phase down across the United States. I had reported a few weeks ago that Washington State’s HFC phase down had passed...
Daikin: Notice of Establishment of New Subsidiary in China
30 May 2019 Daikin Industries, Ltd. announces that a resolution was passed at the Board of Directors meeting held on May 30, 2019, to establish a new subsidiary in China for the manufacture and sales...
Flammable refrigerants: the IEC approves the charge increase
29/05/2019 The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is in charge of standardization in the fields of electricity, electronics, electromagnetic compatibility, nanotechnology and related tec...
Ohrid 2019: latest technology trends for ammonia and CO2
29/05/2019 During the 8th IIR Conference on “Ammonia and CO2 Refrigeration” in Ohrid, North Macedonia, on April 11-13, 2019, 51 papers were presented, including 21 on ammonia, 22 on CO2 a...
Record 25-ton Seizure of HFC Refrigerants in Poland
Polish authorities have seized almost 25 tons of illegal hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants. Believed to be the largest seizure of its kind in Europe, the 24,459-kg shipment from Ukraine included cylinders of R134a, R404A, and R410A and is estimated to be worth about €600,000 (US$ 672,000). Tax Administration Chamber officers in Łódź discovered the HFCs during customs clearance of tw...
Opteon™ XL41 (R-454B) and Opteon™ XP10 (R-513A) Refrigerants
Opteon™ selected to replace R-410A and R-134a in Chiller and Heat Pumps in Europe WILMINGTON, Del., May 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chemours Company (Chemours) (NYSE: CC), a global che...
Toshiba DesignAirs Software Automates Refrigerant Capacity C
Toshiba has released a new generation of DesignAirs, an air conditioning system design software enabling contractors to carry out split and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system selection and automated EN378 and F-gas compliance checks for the first time. DesignAirs was originally developed by Toshiba in Europe, and the company recently adopted the system as its global air conditioning design ...
