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ASEDAS urges realistic F-Gas timeline for Spanish supermarkets
ASEDAS cites a €2.5 billion bill, technician shortages and tighter gas quotas as barriers to compliance, and proposes a 2032 deadline.
UNEP and ASEAN advance passive cooling to cut HFC demand
A regional roadmap estimates that envelope measures, ventilation, cool surfaces and shading could cut ASEAN cooling demand by nearly 42%.
US States and New York City Sue EPA Over Delayed HFC Phaseout
The challenged rule extends compliance deadlines by up to six years, while EPA says the changes will curb costs for food and semiconductors.
UNEP and AREA highlight RAC technician training in Thailand
UNEP OzonAction and AREA jointly organized a side event during OEWG-48 in Thailand to examine the role of the refrigeration and air-conditioning servicing sector in supporting the Montreal Protocol and Kigali Amendment. Around 90 participants, 45% of them women, represented governments, industry associations, training institutions and international organizations. The event focused on technician skills needed
SDRS and TRUSCO develop Dohiemon Box for full-body cooling
The enclosure uses R1234yf and a 400 W inverter compressor, with listed energy use of 0.51 kWh at 35°C ambient.
MarketsandMarkets forecasts refrigeration coolers market at $6.85 billion
The global refrigeration coolers market is projected to grow from USD 4.72 billion in 2026 to USD 6.85 billion by 2032, according to MarketsandMarkets. The research firm forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 6.4% during the period. Market growth is linked to investment in energy-efficient refrigeration infrastructure across retail, food and beverage processing, logistics
UNEP and Syria strengthen coordination on Montreal Protocol implementation
Stakeholders prioritized stronger ozone governance, updated RAC standards and expanded technician training across Syria.
UNEP releases guide for national refrigerant lifecycle plans
The roadmap covers policy, infrastructure, financing and monitoring, with lifecycle measures projected to avert up to 67 Gt CO2e by 2100.
UNEP advances ODS bank and RAC certification plans in Africa
Recommendations set a June 2027 deadline for national ODS and HFC bank inventories and call for a common ECOWAS technician licence.
UNEP strengthens Montreal Protocol implementation across West Asia
Officials from five countries agreed follow-up actions to accelerate ozone projects and deepen cooperation on Kigali Amendment delivery.
Daikin and Itochu Partner on Commercial AC Recycling in Japan
The alliance will manage collection through new-product manufacturing, with traceability, refrigerant recovery and staged nationwide expansion.
HARDI Joins Washington Refrigerant Task Force
Todd Titus will represent distributors as the panel weighs the feasibility and timing of a shift to lower-GWP refrigerants by 2035.
Insights on Refrigerants
Power, Water, and Heat: How Site Resources Now Decide the Refrigerant in a Data Center
For an engineer reading a data center brief in 2026, the first constraint is rarely the heat load. It is whether the site has the electricity, the water, and a use for the rejected heat to run a given cooling scheme at all. The cooling technology, and with it the refrigerant, follows from what the
EPA Delays Low-GWP Refrigerant Deadlines, Splitting the US Cooling Industry
The deadline that supermarkets faced to install new refrigeration systems running on low-GWP refrigerants was January 1, 2027. It is now January 1, 2032. On May 21, 2026, alongside President Trump in the Oval Office, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced final revisions to the 2023 Technology Transitions Rule and a proposed technical fix to the
How Europe’s HVAC Market Is Shifting: A Conversation with Johnson Controls’ Jens von Ebbe
At MCE 2026 in Milan, Sergei Mukminov, Editor-in-Chief of Refindustry.com, spoke with Jens von Ebbe, General Manager HVAC Equipment EMEA at Johnson Controls. The conversation covers three years of market shifts under his leadership — from the accelerating move to natural refrigerants and the explosive growth of data centre cooling, to the 41-city Innovation Studio