By refrigerant

A new EU proposal to phase-down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol could have the potential to unlock negotiations, according to a leading green group.

A member of the powerful Committee on Energy and Commerce has written to the EPA expressing serious concern over plans to ban certain high GWP refrigerants.

UNEP has produced two guides to assist article 5 countries in their phase-out of HCFC refrigerants.

Bitzer has become the first compressor manufacturer to approve a full range of new low GWP refrigerants.

Following hot on the heels of Bitzer, Emerson has announced the approval of new low GWP refrigerants R448A and R449A in its Discus and Copeland Scroll compressors.

The EU’s REAL Alternatives learning programme for engineers working with low GWP alternative refrigerants will launch on March 19 with a free webinar.

Swedish retailer ICA Gruppen has achieved the 30% CO₂ reduction target it set in 2006, six years ahead of schedule.

Daikin says its acquisition of Solvay’s European refrigerants business will boost sales to €230m by 2018.The deal reported to be worth around €22m gives the Japanese company, best known in the West as an air conditioning manufacturer, its first refrigerant manufacturing base in Europe.

Five managers of waste sites have been given prison terms of up to four years and 200 more could face court for incorrectly disposing of refrigerators.

Honeywell has today officially launched four new lower GWP refrigerants for applications ranging from supermarket refrigeration to industrial cooling.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is to crack down on refrigeration facilities that are failing to implement procedures to prevent the release of ammonia.

Customs officers intercepted or prevented the worldwide trade in over 1300 tonnes of ozone depleting refrigerants over an 18-month period to April 2014.

Retailers have called on the cooling supply chain for solutions to help them meet a triple challenge of tight margins; smaller store footprints and new refrigerant choices.

A leading maritime equipment supplier has warned that the shipping industry is ill-prepared for the new F-gas regulations.

A petition calling for a ban on the use of “dangerous substance” R1234yf in vehicle air conditioning systems has been rejected by the European parliament.

DuPont has created an updated version of its DuPrex 4.0 refrigerant comparison software to mark the sales launch of its new Opteon product range.