It did not take long for the HVACR industry to respond to reports from overseas about rogue refrigerants used in hundreds of transport HFC-134a refrigeration systems, which allegedly were responsible for a number of explosions and at least three deaths. The NEWS first reported on these developments in its Jan. 9 issue.
In a statement issued Jan. 24, Polar Technology, a Nashville, Tenn.-based refrigerant management company that specializes in reclamation and recycling, said it “has developed a series of 18 repeatable testing and recovery procedures to be used on potentially contaminated shipping containers that are believed to have been serviced in Vietnam.”