A-Gas Says ‘Time Is Running Out’ and Urges Industry to Replace R-404A
For European industry, the time to switch is now
A-Gas is urging the refrigeration industry to switch to low-global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants R-448A and R-449A before shortages of R-404A begin to bite.
A-Gas Managing Director John Ormerod said, “Time is running out but some contractors are still ignoring the fact that supplies of R-404A will shrink over the next two years and by 2018 there simply won’t be enough to go around. It is no good making the switch at the last minute — there is a huge bank of equipment out there which will have to be updated with low-GWP refrigerants.”