INEOS Fluor announced it has become a member of the GREENCHILL Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, an EPA cooperative alliance set up to work with the supermarket industry and other stakeholders to promote technologies, strategies, and practices that reduce emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), greenhouse gases (GHGs) and increase refrigeration system energy efficiency.

“The HCFC-22 phaseout that begins in 2010 is leading many supermarkets to retrofit their existing refrigeration equipment to use non-ozone-depleting refrigerants. INEOS Fluor is helping supermarkets reduce their impact on the ozone layer with its alternative refrigerants,” says Julius Banks, Acting Branch Chief of EPA’s Alternatives & Emissions Reduction Branch. Peter Geosits, Commercial Director of INEOS Fluor Americas, adds: “INEOS Fluor has a solid track record of product innovation and we continue to deliver new refrigerants to meet our customers’ environmental concerns. Our membership in the GreenChill initiative very much underpins this philosophy.”

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