Charlotte McLaughlin, Author at R744

METRO opens CO₂ TC ejector store in Croatia

German multinational wholesaler METRO has opened a new CO₂ transcritical store in Dubrovnik.

The latest was a CO₂-based store for local retailer Cencosud in Chile.

Italian compressor manufacturer Frascold announced the opening of a new factory in India.

But CO2 refrigerant was still only 0.42% by weight in 2017 across 11,257 stores in EPA program.

Belgian retailer Colruyt has won a ‘Factory of the Future’ award for a meat factory that uses a ammonia heat pump.

Stiebel’s air system, using a Denso CO2 heat pump, was launched in 2017.

SIAD recently opened an R744 gas plant in Tuscany, Italy.

A Panasonic CO2 condensing unit cools a new walk-in freezer in an M&S Simply Food franchise located in a large NHS hospital.

At Refrigera, Panasonic and SCM Frigo both report success with CO2 condensing units in Italy.

German system manufacturer TEKO has installed over 3,200 CO2 systems in Europe since 2006.