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At AHR Expo, the Italian company offered propane chillers designed for supermarkets and warehouses.

Development of climate-friendlier truck refrigeration systems in South Africa using R290 will be presented by Daniel Colbourne.

140 papers were presented during the successful 12th IIR Gustav Lorentzen conference on Natural refrigerants. CO₂ was the most addressed refrigerant (74 papers), followed by hydrocarbons (34), ammonia (21) and water (4). We present below the summary of a paper along with the direct link where the paper can be downloaded in Fridoc database.

The ECOLINE+ six-cylinder line is a follow-up to the UL-approved OCTAGON Transcritical line; both cut commercial system costs and lend themselves to industrial applications.

GreenChill webinar with Consumer Goods Forum will take place February 28, as planned; check website for updates on others.

Refrigerant choices – webinar with Andy Pearson, IOR Past President and Chair of Technical Committee. On behalf of the CIBSE ASHRAE Group, UK.

Australian gourmet food firm F. Mayer Imports has commissioned a transcritical CO₂ plant with ammonia chillers.

A recent study shows that HFCs may remain in the oceans for far longer than originally thought.

Last week’s AHR Expo in Las Vegas provided the platform for the official US launch of Carrier’s new AquaEdge 19DV centrifugal chiller using low GWP refrigerant R1233zd(E).

Mayekawa’s NewTon unit installed at a candy plant consumes 32% less energy than an R507A system, reports ASHRAE Journal.

The Canadian city has already converted most municipal skating and hockey rinks from R22 to environmentally friendly ammonia, with more conversions planned.

Refrigerant manufacturer Chemours has broken ground on a new R1234yf production facility at its Corpus Christi plant in Ingleside, Texas.

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for the EU to ratify the amendment to the Montreal Protocol on a global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), tackling the rapid growth of emissions of these potent greenhouse gases.

Tecumseh says it will be releasing a full line of R449A compressors and condensing units for low, medium and high temperature commercial refrigeration applications.

Retailer Aldi Süd claims to have reached the milestone of 1000 CO2 refrigeration system installations in its stores.

Yamato Co. Ltd., a Japanese engineering company specialising in the planning, design and installation of HVAC&R facilities, has developed and tested a new CO₂-based brine-ice thermal storage system.

The EMC compressor – one of the world’s most efficient single speed compressors – for propane applications is among the technologies on display.

The air-cooled units employ CO₂ and water/glycol as secondary fluids as an alternative to HFC systems.

Propane remains the company’s preference for fractional-horsepower compressors.

The supply of R-22 is dwindling. Back in October 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final phasedown schedule regarding the production and importation of HCFC-22. The order called for an immediate drop from 51 million pounds allowed in 2014 to 22 million pounds in 2015 and 18 million pounds in 2016. The supply will be further slashed to 13 million pounds this year, 9 million pounds in 2018, and 4 million pounds in 2019. No new or imported R-22 will be allowed in the U.S. on or after Jan. 1, 2020.