US: Honeywell has announced that increasing global adoption of its range of low-global-warming-potential (GWP) products will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by an equivalent of 475Mt of carbon dioxide by 2025, the equivalent to removing 100 million cars from the road for one year.
The projections represent an increase of 36% over projections the company made a year ago when it committed to reducing the production of high-GWP hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in applications ranging from refrigeration to air conditioning to aerosols.
"In just the last year, Honeywell has started two production facilities in the US to manufacture two of its new low-GWP Solstice® HFC replacements and completed 17 long-term supply agreements with a range of customers," said Ken Gayer, Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell Fluorine Products. "We continue to see strong demand for these environmentally-preferable technologies as we continue to invest in new production here in the US."
In September 2014, Honeywell said that it would increase production of its low-GWP refrigerants, insulation materials, aerosols and solvents, and, prior to 2020, would drive a 50% reduction in its annual production of high-GWP hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) on a CO2 equivalent basis. In the past year, Honeywell has shipped enough low-GWP Solstice products to replace HFCs with 10Mt of CO2 equivalent.
