Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0664-0128
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2010-06-21T04:00Z

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From: "Chiang, Amy" [Amy.Chiang@Honeywell.com]

Sent: 05/25/2010 11:54 AM MST

To: Tom Land; <mcclean.brian@epa.gov>; Drusilla Hufford; Cindy Newberg

Subject: Apollo Announcement

Just wanted to give you a heads up in case you didn't see it... 

Honeywell will begin supplying commercial quantities of a new

refrigerant - HFO-1234yf - in the fourth quarter of 2011.

SUMMARY ON RELEASE:

Honeywell and DuPont announced a manufacturing joint venture to produce

the HFO-1234yf refrigerant for use in automotive air conditioning

systems.  The new refrigerant has a lower global warming potential (GWP)

of 4. 

Honeywell and DuPont introduced HFO-1234yf to the automotive industry in

2007, and since then, it has undergone extensive testing for safety and

efficacy by independent testing groups such as the Society of Automotive

Engineers International Cooperative Research Program, in which leading

automobile manufacturers participated. 

 

Attached please find a copy of the press release outlining the

manufacturing joint venture.