Organic Foods and Café retrofits Dubai store location with lower-global-warming potential Honeywell Solstice N40 refrigerant

Organic Foods and Café retrofits Dubai store location with lower-global-warming potential Honeywell Solstice N40 refrigerant

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Honeywell today announced that Organic Foods and Café, a grocery retailer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), adopted Solstice® N40 (R-448A) refrigerant to retrofit one of its Dubai store locations currently using R-22. Organic Foods and Café plans to continue retrofitting stores throughout the UAE with Solstice N40 to prioritize sustainability and support their business’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.

Based on hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) technology, Solstice N40 has become the supermarket industry’s most widely adopted, lower-global-warming-potential (LGWP), nonflammable refrigerant replacement for legacy hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerants such as R-22 and other hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) alternatives.

Since its release in 2015, there have been more than 60,000 installations of Solstice N40 globally, supporting compliance with current and proposed regulations, including the internationally adopted Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, with the aim of reducing the use of ozone-depleting HCFCs and high-GWP HFCs. Solstice N40 is easy to implement, requiring minimal changes to existing systems, offers a GWP that is approximately 68 percent lower than legacy HFC refrigerants, and allows for up to 15 percent lower energy consumption, reducing carbon emissions.

“Solstice N40 is the practical and economical choice to support sustainable operations while reducing energy costs,” said Nils El