News

  • F-Gas policing debate rages on after wholesaler revelation

    28 September 2011

    The debate over who polices F-Gas rages on after it was revealed that an electrical wholesaler is selling refrigerants on the open market, backed by a major supplier.

  • European countries secretly releasing HFC-23 despite environmental impact

    23 September 2011

    European chemical manufacturers are surreptitiously venting large quantities of HFC -23, according to a new study.  The study, by EPMA, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, claims that Western European emissions of HFC-23, a super greenhouse gas with a global warming potential some 14,800 times higher than CO2, are as much as 140 per cent higher than the figures contained in national emissions reports.

  • Inquest opened into fatal propane blast

    07 September 2011

    The Icepak coldstore which exploded in 2007 following a propane refrigerant leak had no gas detection systems in place and had experienced a massive leak just six months earlier, an inquest has heard.