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Hindustan Unilever, an India-based subsidiary of Unilever, yesterday announced it is rolling out freezer cabinets that use hydrocarbon refrigerants.

Carrefour Belgium has opened its first ever store fitted with a propylene water-loop refrigeration system. The retail giant will test the system over the next twelve months before deciding whether to roll out the concept in other locations.

This December, Hannaford Supermarkets, a division of Ahold Delhaize, will begin installing a transcritical CO₂ refrigeration system in an existing store in Raymond, New Hampshire, its first such retrofit project and one of only a few in the United States.

Environmental group the EIA has called on major global fast food chains to reducing their refrigeration footprint in India.

The Japanese company has placed its first CO₂ system in Europe, in a COOP store in Randers, Denmark.

Two U.S. supermarkets that use ammonia/CO₂ cascade refrigeration systems – a Whole Foods Market and a Piggly Wiggly – received the GreenChill Award for “Best of the Best” certified stores from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Partnership.

France’s HFC phase-down obligations under the EU’s F-Gas Regulation are helping to increase uptake of ammonia refrigeration technologies in industrial applications.

US retailer Piggly Wiggly has recorded energy savings averaging 28.5% over a seven-month period in a Georgia store, thanks mainly to its NH₃/CO₂ refrigeration system.

French firm Atlantic Compressors is delivering an NH₃-CO₂ cascade system to serve the cooling needs of a distribution centre for one of France’s main supermarket chains. The system will be up and running next month.

Emerson Climate Technologies has released three new digital scroll compressors, extending its Summit K5E series to 15hp.

A Waitrose supermarket is said to be achieving refrigeration energy savings of nearly 7% following the replacement of R404A with a new HFO-based blend.

In UK, Space Engineering has launched a new CO₂-based integrated refrigeration system which is said to offer the possibility of impressive energy and financial savings for convenience stores.

Independent tests are said to have proven the energy saving capabilities of Adande’s Aircell air flow management system.

Space Engineering has launched a new CO₂-based integrated refrigeration system which is said to offer the possibility of impressive energy and financial savings for convenience stores.

The successes of the Consumer Goods Forum’s five-year commitment to replace HFCs in refrigeration systems are recorded in a new publication.

A third or more of annual food production is never eaten, yet more than 50% of the wasted food could have its shelf-life extended by the cold chain.

A Trane air-cooled chiller employing a new low-GWP refrigerant replacement for R410A is to be presented at the IIR conference in Yokohama.

A settlement has been reached in the court case between the AHRI and the US Department of Energy’s energy efficiency standards for commercial walk-in coolers and freezers.

A recently completed project to improve refrigeration technologies throughout the European food cold chain has furthered our understanding of the viability of alternative technologies.