NHL Partners With Chemours On Refrigerant Solutions
The National Hockey League® (NHL) and The Chemours Company announced a multi-year partnership focused on providing Opteon™ refrigerant solutions to rinks across North America. The partnership announcement follows the release of the 2018 NHL Sustainability Report, which assesses the NHL’s environmental impact and its commitment to ensure all levels of hockey – on frozen ponds, community rinks, or in-arena – thrive for future generations. The report also supports the NHL Greener Rinks Initiative, a League-wide program committed to sharing sustainable business practices with community rink owners and operators.
Chemours will work with the NHL and community rink owners and operators to identify cost-effective, sustainable alternatives, such as Opteon refrigerants, which are non-ozone depleting and have a low global warming potential (GWP). This effort comes at a crucial time as many community rinks across North America currently use HCFC-22 which is being phased out pursuant to the Montreal Protocol, or HFCs, which are being phased down through the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.