Honeywell announced that Organic Foods and Café, a grocery retailer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), adopted Solstice N40 (R-448A) refrigerant to retrofit one of its Dubai store locations currently using R-22. Organic Foods and Café plans to continue retrofitting stores throughout the UAE with Solstice N40 to prioritize sustainability and support their business’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.
Based on hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) technology, Solstice N40 has become the supermarket industry’s most widely adopted, lower-global-warming-potential (LGWP), nonflammable refrigerant replacement for legacy hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerants such as R-22 and other hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) alternatives.
Since its release in 2015, there have been more than 60,000 installations of Solstice N40 globally, supporting compliance with current and proposed regulations, including the internationally adopted Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, with the aim of reducing the use of ozone-depleting HCFCs and high-GWP HFCs. Solstice N40 is easy to implement, requiring minimal changes to existing systems, offers a GWP that is approximately 68 percent lower than legacy HFC refrigerants, and allows for up to 15 percent lower energy consumption, reducing carbon emissions.
“Solstice N40 is already a leading choice for supermarkets worldwide and its growing adoption in the region is a sign of growing awareness and action against global warming as customers move away from legacy refrigerants such as R-22,” said George Bou Mitri, vice president and general manager of Performance Materials and Technologies for the Middle East at Honeywell. “Switching to this ready-now, environmentally-preferable, longer-term solution will not only contribute to the sustainable practices of Organic Foods and Café, but will also help to accelerate the industry’s conversion to alternatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
