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Russian retailer Magnit opened a new supermarket featuring a CO₂ transcritical refrigeration system manufactured and installed by NORD-SM with UNIDO technical support.

Ice plant installer Vink sees CO₂ systems as the cheapest available option for light industrial applications like in the fishing sector.

“The use of natural refrigerants [like ammonia] is probably more prevalent in breweries than in most industrial or commercial refrigeration plants,” said Mark Bulmer (global segment manager (cooling), GF Piping Systems) at BrauBeviale an international beverage trade fair taking place in Nuremberg, Germany on 8-10 November.

This Information Sheet is aimed at individuals and organisations that carry out F-Gas handling operations related to stationary refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pumps (RACHP) and refrigerated trucks and trailers (RTT). For mobile air-conditioning applications the requirements are different.

Hydrocarbons are expected to replace HFCs R404A and R134a in beer fridges the world over.

The Swedish transcritical CO₂ supplier sees the U.S. food retail sector turning towards natural refrigerant systems.

Eurocold recently installed a CO₂ system with parallel compression at a Recheio store in Torres Novas, Portugal.

Investigators have so far refused to confirm or deny whether the refrigeration system was the source of yesterday’s fatal ammonia leak at the Carlsberg brewery in Northampton.

Supermarkets are using chillers with self-contained units in ‘propane-propane’ configuration.

From 2020 onwards, Deutsche Bahn AG plans to make their air-conditioning in new trains use natural refrigerants.

Manufacturers see potential for natrefs in onboard trucking in U.S. market.

Japanese manufacturer Mayekawa sees natural refrigerants playing a huge role in industrial refrigeration, both now and in the future.

An SCM Frigo-designed CO₂ system in an Italian supermarket featuring parallel compression, a CO₂ heat pump and air conditioning is delivering strong energy savings.

Speaking on the first day of the Chillventa Congress, Van Baxter – an engineer from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US state of Tennessee – said that the growth of the United States heat pump market was largely due to the lumber industry.

Adcock Refrigeration and Air Conditioning has completed a major R22 replacement project at leading IT systems, services and products company Fujitsu Services.

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.

Apprentices at consultants ARUP are gaining gaining valuable knowledge of chillers and air handling units through a placement scheme with Daikin Applied.

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.