On September 8, 2018, the Spanish government has approved the Royal Decree 1114/2018 which plans to release EUR 1.5 million to help supermarkets to convert or to replace their refrigeration system in order to comply with the F-gas regulation

Laurianne Rossi (LREM) has proposed a new amendment for an HFC tax in France. The objective is to promote the use of HFC free HVACR installations in France.

At the occasion of its traditional symposium end of September, the French association AFCE published the key results of a new study about lower GWP refrigerants and their energy efficiency, carried out by Cemafroid, Citepa and Ereire and commissioned by AFCE.

The Global Forum for Advanced Climate Technologies (GlobalFact) is supported by refrigerant manufacturers Arkema, Chemours, Daikin, Gujarat Fluorochemicals, Honeywell und Mexichem. The group’s aim is to provide factual information about refrigerants with lower and low GWP.

The EHPA market outlook is out and it reveals a growing market for the 4th year in a row! At the end of the year, the counter had reached 10.6 million, the result of 1.11 million units sold in 2017 (+10%). Signs from several markets in Europe indicate, that this growth continues in 2018 since more than 11 million HPs (in total) were installed by the end of the first half of 2018.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently published a report dedicated to air conditioning which was reviewed by the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR). The report clearly shows a dramatic increase in air conditioning needs and indicates that energy consumption linked to air conditioning could triple by 2050.