Food retailers shared their concerns and experiences with refrigeration systems that use alternative refrigerants at the Food Marketing Institute’s (FMI’s) 2023 Energy & Store Development Conference that was recently held in Baltimore, Maryland. Particularly, grocers noted the problems they’d experienced with refrigerant leaks in their CO₂ systems. In addition, food retailers discussed systems that were poorly designed and did not perform how they were supposed to. And with this HFC refrigerant phasedown being so prominent in the industry, some say the industry just needs more time to develop solutions for the phasedown of refrigerants, that actually work.

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