Refrigerant R22 - How was the exit?
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Refrigerant R22 - How was the exit?
In the early 1980s, the international debate on the elimination of HCFCs and CFC refrigerants began, and with it the search for alternatives. It was decided to gradually reduce the use of these refrigerants by 2040 and then ban them altogether.
R22 was explicitly part of this solution. In the US, the use of R22 even increased thereafter, as the
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