A-Gas (UK) has “gone live” with a dedicated website to help businesses gain further insight and help with the virgin HCFC use ban. The re-packager of refrigerant and other gases says that, “despite all the publicity and warnings”, there are still end-users unaware that they may be storing illegal refrigerants.
A-Gas’s aim is to ensure that gas-using organisations know the various options. The company said: “By logging onto www.hcfcphaseout.com, end-users, distributors, contractors, installers, or service engineers, have a useful tool that provides accessible, up-to-date information, advice, and options. Ken Logan, MD, said: “Many businesses may not realise that the phase-out presents a number of opportunities, including switching to energy-efficient systems with the help of a Government-backed loan, or taking advantage of more environmentallyfriendly refrigerants that could also improve energy efficiencies and running costs.” A-Gas is also offering a reclaimed HCFC service to ease users through the next stage of the phase-out, when HCFCs will be banned in 2015. Reclaimed HCFCs are recovered HCFC gases chemically reprocessed to a specified standard.
