China. Chemours Fluoroproducts has announced that it has doubled the supply of low GWP refrigerants (HFO-1234yf) in Zhonghao, China.
The additional supply allows Chemours to meet growing needs for more sustainable mobile and stationary air conditioning applications. This capacity increase is particularly significant due to the July 2 announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a final rule to remove HFC-134a from its list of acceptable refrigerants for new automotive air conditioners, effective by model year 2021.
Chemours now forecasts that there will be more than nine million vehicles using HFO-1234yf on the roads by the end of 2015.
Chemours Fluoroproducts President Thierry FJ Vanlancker said, "Chemours was the first company to establish HFO-1234yf capacity and now has the largest capacity in the world. We were the first company to offer commercial-scale manufacturing, and we made the first commercial shipments from our initial facility in Japan in November 2011 and our China facility in 2012. With this increase in capacity at our Zhonghao facility we believe we have a sufficient supply to meet the current demand of our customers; and our next capacity increases are in the final stages of planning to ensure we find greater future demand."
