Argentina. With the signing of the industrial reconversion agreement, the country's air conditioning manufacturing companies committed to the Ministry of the Environment to implement cleaner production processes to eliminate the emission of HCFCs, a substance that considerably deteriorates the ozone layer.
The agreement aims to establish the aspects for the implementation of the project to reconvert the domestic air conditioning manufacturing sector, approved by the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol and for which this organization will donate about US$7 million in financing funds for the companies.
Thus, with the change, companies will not only protect the ozone layer but also improve the efficiency of their processes. "This agreement allows companies to make a contribution so that they can be competitive and maintain sources of work and thus defend the national industry based on sustainable development," said Juan José Mussi, Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of the South American Nation.
