Coca-Cola, the world’s largest beverage company, has a long history of using carbon dioxide as the fizz in its soft drinks. Now CO₂ is also Coke’s refrigerant of choice in its beverage coolers, vending machines and fountain equipment. At ATMOsphere America 2015 Coke presented on a light-commercial refrigeration panel on their journey to achieve HFC-free status for all new cooling equipment. On the same panel, four of Coke’s CO₂ equipment suppliers described their progress with CO₂ technology.

“We are reaching an inflection point in our HFC-free global system adoption,” said Antoine Azar, global program director for the Coca-Cola Company and chair of Refrigerants, Naturally!, a consortium of packaged goods companies advocating the replacement of HFC refrigerants. “We are at the phase where (CO₂) is the technology that fits our portfolio of equipment.”

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