UPWARD TREND: Recent events in China and Washington, District of Columbia, mean the prices of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), such as R-410A, are likely to remain high this summer. July 3, 2017 Contractors ...

It is more expensive to keep older cars cool this summer. The price of R-12, a refrigerant used in the air conditioners of an estimated 157 million cars and light trucks, has as much as doubled in ...

EPA has again revised standards for refrigerant used in vehicles. R-12 refrigerant (aka “Freon”) was the go-to coolant for more than 50 years. Then it was discovered that chlorine atoms in escaped ...

A worldwide demand for sulfur and the resulting sulfuric acid is adding to pricing pressures on HCFC and HFC refrigerants that contractors use every day. The issue first arose with an announcement in ...