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The outdoor plug-and-play unit, which contains 12 l of R290, is designed for small stores.

The European Commission sees current flammable refrigerant standards as a barrier to low GWP alternatives and recommends that these should be urgently addressed.

Decision XXVII/6 on potential areas of focus for the 2018 quadrennial reports of the Scientific Assessment Panel, the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel and the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, adopted at the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Parties in November 2015, requests the three assessment panels to prepare quadrennial assessment reports in 2018, to submit them to the Secretariat by 31 December 2018 for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group and by the Thirty-First Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in 2019. A synthesis report of the three Assessment Panels will be made available by 30 April 2019.

Store cuts energy consumption by 33% and saves $74,640 over 13-month period, thanks to cascade system and other improvements.

Standards, codes and legislation must be adapted to encourage wider rollout of HFC alternatives, argues an upcoming European Commission report.

A potential hydrocarbon charge increase being considered by an international standards body should create new business opportunities for manufacturers of plug ‘n’ play refrigeration systems.

The low-temperature freezers are aimed at the research sector.

France sees natural refrigerants as market-ready alternatives to HFCs, according an energy ministry official.

A new paper published by the UK Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) considers the future choice of refrigerant for small industrial refrigeration applications.

The European Commission has warned that the uptake of training in alternative refrigerants is too low to match the requirements of the F-gas phase down.

During the official opening ceremony of the Caribbean Ozone Officers’ Network Meeting, held at the Radisson Aquatica Hotel, Bridgetown, Barbados, Marco Pinzon, the Regional Network Coordinator, OzonAction, United Nations Environment, Regional Office for Latin America (UNEP-ROLAC) reminded persons present that it has been over 30 years since Governments agreed to protect the ozone layer and to phase out the ozone depleting substances, noting that it will be a challenge to do so, because the potent and harmful chemicals are used in a variety of applications, but are mainly seen in the refrigeration and air conditioning sectors.

Nine national refrigeration associations met with a UN body in Belgrade, Serbia recently to tackle the HCFC phase out and hear about how to leapfrog HFCs by using natural refrigerants.

The Japanese multinatonal will offer a 10 HP system to the commercial refrigeration sector next April.

On December 5, 2016, CRC Canada Co., located in Mississauga, Ontario, was sentenced in the Ontario Court of Justice and was ordered to pay $225,000 after pleading guilty to two counts of contravening the Ozone-Depleting Substances Regulations, 1998 under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). The fine will be directed to the Environmental Damages Fund (EDF).

German compressor manufacturer Bitzer has established a subsidiary company in Iran.

Two ammonia heat pumps from Star Renewable Energy have been shortlisted for awards in the UK.

The Fire Protection Research Foundation wants to evaluate the fire hazard posed by flammable refrigerants as a pathway to raising their charge limit.

More than 160 refrigerants are maintained under ASHRAE’s refrigerant classification standard, and that list continues to grow as the industry’s need for new refrigerants increases.

The EPA’s SNAP program will allow propane for ice machines, water coolers and very low-temperature equipment.

The 77th meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol was held at the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Montreal, Canada, from 28 November to 2 December 2016.