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Tetsuro Homma - Introduction of Panasonic CO2 condensing unit (CU) and further development
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published on 3 February 2015
Tetsuro Homma, Senior vice president of Panasonic corporation, identified and explained Panasonic’s efforts to improve their use of natural refrigerants and Panasonic’s penetration of the natural refrigerants based market in Japan which is continually expanding.
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Kuniaki (Nick) Kawamura - The market trend of natural refrigeration systems in Japan
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published on 3 February 2015
Kuniaki Kawamara, Mayekawa’s executive director, explained the increasing government support for the usage of natural-refrigerants-based systems in Japan and gave us an overview of Mayekawa’s Newton industrial refrigeration system which uses CO2 and NH3.
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Junya (Joe) Ichikawa - In partnership with nature
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published on 3 February 2015
Junya Ichikawa, Sanden’s head for CO2 refrigerant related business, spoke over the hope that CO2 heat pumps and refrigeration systems will be the focus of the Japanese HVAC market.
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Nina Masson - Natural refrigerants in Asia & the world - an overview of market, technology and policy trends
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published on 3 February 2015
Nina Masson, shecco’s deputy managing director, spoke in detail over the prevalent market and policy trends in Asia and around the world. There was a particular focus on North America, Europe and China with regards to the availability of natural refrigerants and their adoption in supermarkets.
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Bob Hurley - The best environmental solutions in a climate that is cost driven
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published on 3 February 2015
Robert Hurley, Tesco Group's head of Refrigeration and HVAC&R since 2005, presented the best environmental solutions in a cost-driven climate, arguing that refrigeration remains a core engineering discipline in the retail food sector and one of its biggest spending areas.
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Ian Crookston - CO2 transcritical system benchmarking
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published on 3 February 2015
Ian Crookston, Sobeys' manager of energy management, presented CO2 transcritical system benchmarking. One of Canada's two national supermarket retailers, Sobeys now has 72 CO2 transcritical systems after installing its first in 2009. Crookston outlined Sobeys' benchmarking journey adopting CO2 transcritical, comparing two systems in their Milton and Stradford store locations - the first using low and high temperature evaporators, the latter three temperature ranges and mechanical sub-cooling.
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Shinichiro Uto - Introduction of natural refrigerant (CO2) technology by Lawson
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published on 3 February 2015
Lawson's director Shinichirou Uto talked about the Japanese convenience store's plans to install CO2 in all new outlets and reduce energy consumption by 20% across all stores compared with FY2010. To achieve this, Lawson has addressed a knowledge gap by training 889 technicians, with the support of system manufacturers. Still, Uto noted that Japan still lags behind Europe in terms of CO2 transcritical installations (570 by the end of February) in its quest to become the number one natural refrigerant retailer in the world.
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Yoshinari Okuyama - Phase-out F-gases and shift to natural refrigerant
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published on 3 February 2015
As a member of Coca Cola's Tokyo Research & Development Company Limited, Okuyama addressed the global initiative to phase out F-Gases and shift to natural refrigerants. Coca Cola Japan's goal is to adopt natural refrigerants in all its vending machines by 2020 with the company's machines proven to be 78% more energy efficient than equivalent HFC models. Coca Cola already has 1.5 million HFC-free units globally, a 20% improvement on 2013.
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