(History of switching to HFC refrigerants)
| May 1997 |
air- conditioners for residential-use in Europe |
| January 1998 |
multiple air-conditioners for buildings |
| April 2000 |
air-conditioners for commercial use/marine vessel air conditioners and refrigerating units |
| November 2000 |
ice storage type V R V (Valuable Refrigerants Volume) system/air-conditioners for retail locations and offices |
| January 2001 |
inverter type air cooled water chillers |
| May 2001 |
ducted type packaged air-conditioners |
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Development of air-conditioners using natural refrigerants
The industry considers HFC as the optimal refrigerants for air-conditioners because of its efficiency and economical reasons. However we make efforts to use natural refrigerants whenever it is possible.
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Absorption chiller with ammonia, water chiller with ammonia and water heating system with CO2 for residential use.
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Support for making system to collect, reproduce, and destroy the refrigerants
Since 1999,we have set up the destruction equipment of CFC, HCFC in our plants and started to collect and destroy the refrigerants when the air-conditioners were broken or abandoned. We are making great efforts to build up the social system to collect, reproduce, and destroy the refrigerants.
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Mr.Satoshi Mizuno's (Senior Managing Director in charge of environmental preservation) statement about winning the award.
We are very honored to receive the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award, as we are the only manufacturer related to both air-conditioning and fluorochemical businesses that has much to do with environment.
We Daikin strongly take the 21st century as the century to be responsible for the environment. One of our main targets of running the businesses is to deal with environmental issues.
Recognizing the importance of the award, we are eager to make every effort to develop and broaden environmental preservation activities.
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