Honeywell plans early exit of high GWP refrigerants

摘要

Honeywell is planning to exit the sale of Genetron 404A (R_(404)A) and Genetron AZ-50 (R_(507)) refrigerants in the European Union in 2018 as contracts permit, in order to meet the deadline set by the European Union's F-Gas regulations, which stipulate the phase-out of high global-warming-potential (GWP) hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by 2020. The company is taking this action in anticipation of the expected scarcity of high GWP products due to the F-Gas Regulation phase-down schedule. The F-gas Regulation states how much refrigerant can be placed on the European market each year, based on GWP. It requires significant and increasingly larger and faster reductions of the highest -GWP HFCs well ahead of 2020. Due to the large, mandated reduction in quota to be implemented on January 1, 2018, it is expected that an accelerated phase-out of high-GWP products will be required in order to cope with the phase-down timing. This means that customers need to convert now to more environmentally preferable solutions in order to prepare for the scarcity of high-GWP products anticipated in 2018 and to fully meet the F-Gas requirements by the end of 2019.