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History and Achievements
History
- The Refrigerants, Naturally! initiative was launched in 2004 by The Coca Cola Company, Unilever and McDonald's. These companies committed to an HFC-free future during the "Refrigerants, Naturally! Conference 2004", where innovative technologies were showcased.
- In 2005, Refrigerants, Naturally! was the recipient of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Protection Award for their efforts in fighting global warming.
- Later on, PepsiCo joined the initiative.
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In 2008, Refrigerants, Naturally! hosted successfully a side event at the 8th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Working Fluid in Copenhagen and presented achievements in natural refrigerants technology to an interested audience of corporate members and supporters, other end-users, suppliers, policy-makers and media.
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In 2011, Refrigerants, Naturally! received the Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership of Harvard University`s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Later on, RedBull joined the initiative.
Together these companies are reducing their impact on climate change
- by replacing refrigerants with HFC-free cooling agents,
- by using HFC-free insulation material,
- by reducing the energy consumption of new refrigeration equipment.
Achievements
- Over the last years the companies of the Refrigerants, Naturally! initiative have, together with their suppliers, developed, tested and placed equipment using natural refrigerants on the market.
- By 2011, Unilever has placed more than 900,000 hydrocarbon-based ice cream cabinets throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia. About 800,000 bottle vending machines have been installed in China, Europe and Latin America by RedBull, PepsiCo and The Coca-Cola Company, either operating with CO2 or Hydrocarbon as refrigerant. Further, since 2004, McDonald's has opened several completely HFC-free pilot restaurants in Europe, which allowed it to monitor and test HFC-free equipment and performance.
- Research and development including testing of pilot equipment is ongoing and relevant information is regularly exchanged within the network.