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California has moved ahead of the Kigali amendment to phase-down HFCs by approving plans to implement its own phase-down of HFCs.

Climaveneta heat pump chillers using low GWP, HFO refrigerant R1234ze are to reclaim waste heat from a data centre for one of Finland’s largest district heating networks.

Retailers are beginning to offer hydrocarbon-cooled pick-up stations for food purchased online.

The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has decided that US industry is being materially injured by cheap imports of refrigerant R134a from China.

Fifty National Ozone Officers from the English-speaking and French-speaking African Network countries gathered in Abidjan from 20-24 March 2017 to review and address challenges related to the phase-out of HCFCs and their national Montreal Protocol activities as well as to discuss strategic frameworks and plans of action for hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) phase-down.

More refrigerant suppliers across the UK have announced price increases on middle to high GWP refrigerants from April 1.

Several manufacturers at German trade show ISH displayed efficient systems using the natural refrigerant propane (R290).

Daikin has launched the refrigerant blend R407H as its lower global warming potential replacement for R404A.

Kaplanlar Cooling is entering the natural-refrigerant market with its ‘CORE’ transcritical CO₂ solution.

Austrian company AHT already has over one million propane-based food and beverage retail cabinets in operation worldwide.

Refrigerant safe handling register Refcom has created a search facility on its website to allow refrigerant suppliers to check whether customers are properly F-gas certified.

Michael Nagler, business development manager for CO₂ applications at GEA, believes that new regulation in Germany will drive the market.

Alessandro Franchin, export area manager at SCM Frigo, reports growing demand in southern European markets as CO₂ refrigeration technology develops.

R514A, the low GWP refrigerant replacement for R123, has been added to Bacharach’s library of detectable gases.

Whatever the climate, the CO₂OLtechEvoTM offers substantial energy savings for supermarkets, warehouses and process cooling.

Retrofitting the cooling system at grocery delivery service Verscentrum Nederland’s (VCN) facility led to huge energy savings in winter.

Refrigerant users face new price increases of as much as 30% as Europe transitions away from high GWP HFCs.

Carrier’s latest transcritical CO₂ refrigeration system – CO₂OLtech Evo – features the newly developed adjustable modulating vapour ejector technology.

SANDEN Environmental Solutions is integrating CO₂ refrigeration units into cabinets built by Hauser, Arneg and TEKO.

Italian multinational CAREL believes natural refrigerants will continue to play a central role in making the European food retail sector more sustainable.