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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.

The first ever “Ozone2Climate” Technology Roadshow and Industry Roundtable under the HCFC Phase out Management Plan project was organized by the Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan, UN Environment Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) Asia and Pacific Office AP team in association with UNIDO and the Pakistan Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Industry Association. The Technology Roadshow and one-day Roundtable was organized as a part of the launch of the recently approved Stage 2 project for HCFC phase out and helped the participants understand the implications of the recently agreed Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol for the phase down of HFCs.

Swiss OEM’s R290 and R600a refrigerators and freezers meet new ENERGY Star 4.0 efficiency standard.

Multinational beverage giants like Unilever, Pepsi and the Coca-Cola Company are driving Ugur to supply propane cabinets throughout the world.

The low-charge units, using only 1 lb./TR of NH₃, provide air conditioning at about 10 warehouses.

But the company is finding slow uptake in the U.S. as customers don’t see a sufficient number of trained propane technicians.

Italian water vending machine and water cooler manufacturer Blupura expects to grow by 43% in 2017 – largely thanks to its commitment to future-proof natural refrigerants.

The global family-run business presented new hydrocarbon stand-alone cabinets aimed at the commercial market.