Chemours Expects Opteon Line to Cut 325 million t CO2 Equivalent by 2025
The Chemours Company announced that it has increased the expected greenhouse gas reduction provided by its Opteon portfolio by over 8 %. The company now expects that its line of low GWP refrigerants and blowing agents will eliminate an estimated 325 million t CO2 equivalent by 2025 on a global basis.
The Opteon line is based on hydrofluoro-olefin technologies, such as HFO-1234yf and HFO-1336MzzZ, and was developed to help meet the increasing global phase out of hydrofluorocarbons. Chemours has commercialised Opteon products for use in automotive air conditioning, stationary and transport refrigeration and chillers. The company says it also has a development pipeline of additional Opteon solutions for stationary air conditioning, foam blowing agents, and waste heat recovery.
The announcement comes in support of a call from global leaders of over 100 countries to amend the Montreal Protocol in order to accelerate the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
“Chemours fully supports the continued effort to reduce the use and emissions of high GWP HFCs,” said Paul Kirsch, president of Chemours Fluoroproducts. “We believe that our portfolio of Opteon low GWP solutions provides the industry with … .
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