RE: Ben & Jerry's Hydrocarbon Cabinet Program

Gosselin, Pete to: Monica Shimamura 04/17/2008 02:46 PM

Cc: "Gerrard, Alan", "Asch, Andrea", "Shakalis, Andrew", Karen Thundiyil

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Monica,

Thank you. If you feel you are up to speed, then let's not meet for the sake

of meeting. I really just wanted to extend the opportunity to answer any

questions regarding our initiative as you and Karen came on board, and to make

introductions with our team. 

We look forward to working with you and I am sure we will communicate again

soon.

Pete Gosselin

Gearhead

Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.

30 Community Dr.

South Burlington, VT 05403

802 846 1543 x7636

802 345 5858 - Mobile

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From: Shimamura.Monica@epamail.epa.gov [

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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:14 PM

To: Gosselin, Pete

Cc: Gerrard, Alan; Asch, Andrea; Shakalis, Andrew;

Thundiyil.Karen@epamail.epa.gov

Subject: Re: Ben & Jerry's Hydrocarbon Cabinet Program

Hi Pete,

Thank you for your e-mail. Since, I was on the conference call with Ben and

Jerry's at the beginning of the month, right now I don't have any questions.

However, I have sent your message to Julius Banks and Dave Godwin, our

technical leads on the submission, to see if they had any follow up questions. 

I will get back to you asap as I hear from them.

Conversely, do you have questions or comments which you or your team would

like to discuss with us?

Looking forward to working with your team as well.

Cheers,

Monica

Monica Shimamura

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Stratospheric Protection Division

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (6205J)

Washington DC 20460

(tel) 202.343.9337

(fax) 202.343.2362

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 "Gosselin, Pete" 

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 enjerry.com> To

 Monica Shimamura/DC/USEPA/US@EPA,

 04/15/2008 12:20 Karen Thundiyil/DC/USEPA/US@EPA 

 PM cc

 Margaret 

 Sheppard/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, 

 "Shakalis, Andrew" 

 <Andrew.Shakalis@unilever.com>, 

 "Asch, Andrea" 

 <Andrea.Asch@unilever.com>, 

 "Gerrard, Alan" 

 <Alan.Gerrard@unilever.com> 

 Subject

 Ben & Jerry's Hydrocarbon Cabinet

 Program 

 

Hello Monica and Karen,

Congratulations on your new assignments! I am the engineering manager at Ben

&Jerry's and wanted to take the opportunity to briefly introduce our HC

Cabinet initiative and the team from B&J/Unilever that is leading it. Alan

Gerard, Andrea Asch, Andrew Shakalis and I met with Margaret, Dave and Julius

last month at the EPA offices to present our goals and experience with HC ice

cream cabinets.

As I am sure Margaret has briefed you, our objectives for this program

are:

1) To prepare a successful SNAP application for the US introduction of

Hydrocarbon ice cream freezers with less than 150 g refrigerant charge.

Work on this is in progress.

2) Conduct a market test of these cabinets in the US over the next two years

commencing in late June, 2008. A letter outlining the necessary parameters of

this test is being prepared per the requirements of the SNAP test market

exemption.

Ben & Jerry's is planning to draw on the successful experience of our parent

company, Unilever, with safely placing and operating over 250,000 HC cabinets

worldwide over the past four years. Alan Gerard presented a lot of the data

around this experience during our visit, which I assume has been forwarded to

you in your new role. If either of you would like an electronic copy of this

presentation, please let me know and we can have one forwarded to you.
We would like extend the opportunity to answer any questions you may have

about our program goals, timing, submittals etc. Might you both be available

this Thursday (any time) or Friday in the a.m. for a brief phone conference? 

Please let me know if there is a time that works best for you. We can arrange

the call from here.

We look forward to working with you on this initiative and hope to speak with

you soon.

Pete Gosselin

Gearhead

Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.

30 Community Dr.

South Burlington, VT 05403

802 846 1543 x7636

802 345 5858 - Mobile