VW plans to shift all EVs air conditioning systems to environmentally friendly carbon dioxide by 2030 On February 9, ATMOsphere, Belgium based environmental services firm announced that Volkswagen Group plans to transition all battery electric vehicle (BEV) models' mobile air conditioning heat pumps to carbon dioxide (R744) by 2030, as stated in its public comment on the European PFAS Restriction Proposal. Some BEVs, like the ID. models, already ...

News  Updated at: 2024/02/15

Continental opens new hose plant in Sino-German Ecopark, China Continental announced that the new plant in Qingdao invested by the technology company Continental has been relocated to the Qingdao Sino-German Ecopark and now officially opened. With a total investment of approximately CNY 240 million and an area of approximately 84,000 square meters, the new plant in Qingdao provides high quality hose products and mobile fluid system solutions for ...

News  Updated at: 2018/10/18

Yokohama Rubber develops car air-conditioner hoses for next-generation refrigerant The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed new car air-conditioning hoses that are compatible with the increasingly common HFO-1234yf next-generation car air-conditioning refrigerant for North American automakers. The new hoses have an inner structure that protects the inner resin layer from corrosion from the use of HFO-1234yf. High- and low-pre...

News  Updated at: 2018/08/06

Honeywell production of next-generation refrigerants for car air conditioners in U.S. Honeywell International Inc. announced that production facilities for its Solstice next-generation air conditioning refrigerant (HFO-1234yf), which was newly added to its Geismar manufacturing site in Louisiana, U.S., have begun commercial operations. The company has not disclosed the facilities' annual production capacity, but it says the capacity will be one ...

News  Updated at: 2017/06/01

Yokohama Rubber develops new car air conditioning hose The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed a new hose called AC6B 11 for car air-conditioning units. The new hose is compatible with air conditioners that use the next-generation refrigerant HFO-1234yf, the adoption of which is currently increasing in Europe. Yokohama Rubber has already started supplying several air-conditioning system manufacturers with the new hose, whic...

News  Updated at: 2015/04/30

AGC to produce new refrigerant, HFO-1234yf for automobiles in Japan from 2015 Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (AGC) will produce HFO-1234yf, a refrigerant for automotive air conditioners from 2015. HFO-1234yf was jointly developed by Honeywell International, Inc. (Honeywell) and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), both headquartered in the U.S. AGC will build a new plant in Chiba to produce the new refrigerant by using the company's proprietary f...

News  Updated at: 2014/01/24

Honeywell to construct new refrigerant plant in Louisiana, USA Honeywell International Inc. announced that investments of approximately USD 300 million will be made by the company and key suppliers to increase production capacity for HFO-1234yf. Among these investments, Honeywell will construct a high-volume manufacturing plant using new process technology at the company's existing Geismar, Louisiana, refrigerants manufacturing site, which is exp...

News  Updated at: 2013/12/10

Honeywell Japan starts operations of HFO-1234yf refrigerant filling facility in Chiba Honeywell Japan Inc. announced that it has set up a new facility in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture to fill tanks with Solstice yf (HFO-1234yf) refrigerant for automotive air conditioning systems. The Solstice yf refrigerant is produced at Honeywell’s Chinese plant and delivered to the Japanese plant, where it is then stored in smaller, mobile tanks and shipped to ...

News  Updated at: 2013/07/31

Honeywell stands by the safety of HFO-1234yf refrigerant Honeywell of the U.S. announced that safety of its HFO 1234yf refrigerant has been proven by SAE International and several other independent institutions worldwide, expressing its surprise at Daimler's announcement about not using the 1234yf in its vehicles due to safety issues. The 1234yf was developed as a replacement refrigerant with low global warming potential (GWP) for car air conditi...

News  Updated at: 2012/10/10

New refrigerant developed by Honeywell and DuPont chosen as global standard for next generation car air conditioners A new car air conditioner refrigerant developed jointly by Honeywell and DuPont is likely to be used as a standard product by global automakers. The HFO-1234yf fluorinated gas solution is designed to meet European Union's low global warming potential (GWP) requirements, which will become effective in 2011. Carbon dioxide had also ...

News  Updated at: 2010/06/28

Honeywell and DuPont announce joint venture to produce new refrigerant Honeywell and DuPont announced a manufacturing joint venture to produce a new refrigerant for use in automotive air conditioning systems. The refrigerant, known as the HFO-1234yf, has a 99.7 percent lower global warming potential (GWP) than the HFC-134a that is used in today's automotive air conditioners. The product meets EU regulatory requirements for lower GWP refrigerants ...

News  Updated at: 2010/05/26

Honeywell and DuPont announced a manufacturing joint venture to produce a new refrigerant for use in automotive air conditioning systems. The new refrigerant has 99.7 percent lower global warming potential (GWP) than the current refrigerant. Under the agreement, DuPont and Honeywell will construct a manufacturing facility for the new refrigerant, HFO-1234yf. The product meets European Union regulatory requirements starting in 2011. The joint vent...

News  Updated at: 2010/05/20

Honeywell's low-global warming refrigerant for vehicle air conditioning approved for import into Japan Honeywell International Inc., U.S.A., announced that its new low GWP (global-warming-potential) refrigerant for vehicle air conditioning, HFO-1234yf, has been approved for import for commercial use by the Japanese government. For commercialization in Japan, HFO-1234yf has been reviewed by the Japanese authorities concerned with the Chemical Subs...

News  Updated at: 2009/08/15

DuPont and Honeywell develop new-generation refrigerant for car air-conditioners The next-generation refrigerant jointly developed by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. and Honeywell International Inc., HFO-1234yf, is expected to be utilized as early as 2011, while replacement for the refrigerant of car air-conditioners have been sought after to abate global warming, Although there were other replacement options including CO2, HFO-1234yf can be use...

News  Updated at: 2009/01/10