Honeywell has announced that increasing global adoption of its range of low-global-warming-potential (GWP) products will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by an equivalentof 475 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2025. The projections represent an increase of 36% over projections the company made a year ago. In the last year, Honeywell has started two production facilities in the U.S. to manufacture two of its new low-GWP
Solstice® HFC replacements, and completed 17 long-term supply agreements with a range of customers. Honeywell and its suppliers are in the middle of a $900 million investment program in R&D and new capacity to produce next-generation refrigerants, insulation materials, aerosols and solvents, which have global warming potentials equal to or better than carbon dioxide and at least 99% lower than most technologies used today. They have invested nearly $500 million to date and have affirmed their plan to spend approximately $400 million more. Honeywell’s Solstice line of HFOs include Solstice yf for automobile air conditioning, Solstice Propellant for aerosol applications, Solstice Liquid Blowing Agent and Gas Blowing
Agent for foam applications and Solstice Performance Fluid for use as an industrial solvent. Each of these products has been approved under the EPA’s Signifi cant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program. HFO-1234yf is being used in more than 7 million vehicles globally. In addition to its line of lowglobal-warming-potential HFOs, Honeywell’s Fluorine Products business manufactures and supplies non-ozone-depleting refrigerants used by top air-conditioning and refrigeration makers worldwide, blowing agents for energy-efficient foam insulation, and hydrofl uoric acid and precursors for nuclear fuel.