MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Chemours Company,a global chemistry company with leading market positions in titanium technologies, fluoroproducts and chemical solutions, has announced that it has increased the expected greenhouse gas reduction provided by its Opteon portfolio by over 8%, reported GV.
The company now expects that its line of low GWP refrigerants and blowing agents will eliminate an estimated 325 million t CO2 equivalent by 2025 on a global basis.
The Opteon line is based on hydrofluoro-olefin technologies, such as HFO-1234yf and HFO-1336MzzZ, and was developed to help meet the increasing global phase out of hydrofluorocarbons. Chemours has commercialised Opteon products for use in automotive air conditioning, stationary and transport refrigeration and chillers. The company says it also has a development pipeline of additional Opteon solutions for stationary air conditioning, foam blowing agents, and waste heat recovery.
The announcement comes in support of a call from global leaders of over 100 countries to amend the Montreal Protocol in order to accelerate the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
"Chemours fully supports the continued effort to reduce the use and emissions of high GWP HFCs," said Paul Kirsch, president of Chemours Fluoroproducts. "We believe that our portfolio of Opteon low GWP solutions provides the industry with a clear path forward when it comes to transitioning to more sustainable alternatives, without reducing performance."
Chemours recently announced two major investments in the large scale manufacturing of Opteon products. In May 2016, the company announced that it will invest hundreds of millions USD over the next three years to construct a new HFO-1234yf plant in Corpus Christi, TX, USA, with expected start-up in the second half of 2018. In November 2015, the company also officially broke ground on the world’s first full-scale production facility for HFO-1336mzzZ, with expected production beginning mid-year 2017.
As MRC wrote before, in May 2016, Chemours announced that it has begun the commercial startup of its new titanium dioxide (TiO2) line at its Altamira plant in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Chemours reached mechanical completion of the line in December 2015. Thus, the company began to run the new line using the Chemours chloride process, producing Ti-Pure TiO2 pigment for customer qualification. Production on the new line is expected to ramp up steadily with full nameplate capacity of 200,000 metric tonnes per year being achieved over a few years. As this happens, Chemours will balance utilization across its other facilities to align with our customers' needs.
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