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Wholesaler Beijer Ref is continuing to benefit from investment and expansion of its manufacturing activities, reporting growth of around 21% in the first quarter of this year compared to 2017.

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has turned down a request from the country’s heat pump association for exemption from the F-gas quota system.

The US air conditioning and refrigeration industry claims that the country’s failure to ratify the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFCs will lead to job losses and a decline in US exports.

The Blu-Astrum line, which has been sold in Europe, has an ammonia charge of between 110 and 242 lbs.

The company reduced the charge from 3,600kg to just 750kg of ammonia at the existing plant while operating efficiently.

Panasonic has become the latest air conditioning manufacturer to announce a full switch to the lower GWP refrigerant R32.

F-gas registration company Refcom has backed a report criticising the Environment Agency for failing to enforce the F-gas regulations.

Refrigerant supplier and reclaimer A-Gas has expanded its European influence with the acquisition of German company Arthur Friedrichs Kaeltemittel GmbH.

Faced with increasing costs of R404A, cold store rental company Blue Cube is switching to lower GWP refrigerant blends.

Bitzer has supplied its landmark 100,000th CO₂ refrigeration compressor produced at its Schkeuditz factory to long-term supermarket customer Aldi Süd.

Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration has launched a low-charge NH₃/CO₂ cascade system for industrial applications, based on a similar commercial system.

On 26 March Lidl opened a new ammonia/CO₂ logistics centre for fruit in Moerdijk, in the West Brabant province of the Netherlands.

The UK government should reform the Renewable Heat Incentive to ensure heat pumps use lower GWP refrigerants, according to the Environmental Audit Committee.

A report published today by the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee claims the Government needs to do more on F-gases like HFCs that contribute significantly to global warming.

Taking advantage of the Trump administration’s anti-regulation posture, the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration (IIAR) is making progress working with federal agencies to update regulations in ways that will both benefit the industry and augment safety, according to a presenter at the IIAR 2018 Conference & Expo in Colorado Springs, Colo., in March.

Refrigerant supplier A-Gas reports that price and supply issues with R404A appear to have stabilised but R410A may face further price rises.

The low GWP refrigerants training project, REAL Alternatives 4 LIFE, is to organise a programme of study and train the trainer events.

Toshiba UK has announced an immediate switch to lower GWP refrigerant R32 across its entire residential and light commercial air conditioning ranges.

M&M Refrigeration, a Federalsburg, Md.-based manufacturer of industrial refrigeration systems, has introduced a line of low-charge ammonia configurable modular systems – another entry in the growing field of packaged low-charge systems.

The UN’s development organisation is to cooperate with Japan’s refrigerant conservation group JRECO to identify and fund climate-friendly technologies.