The ATMOsphere Podcast Network

Magnotherm has announced Stellar , a new refrigerant-free magnetic cooling system with a max capacity of 125kW (35.5TR) designed for both commercial refrigeration and commercial HVAC. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

ATMOsphere, publisher of NaturalRefrigerants.com , has launched a new website showcasing the 2026 ATMO Approved Label Companies. The site features individual profiles for all of the companies approved for the 2026 version of the label. Each profile contains an “impact report” that details how the company’s products or work – contractors are also eligible for the label – have contributed to a reduc...

Commercial refrigeration manufacturer Epta is focused on providing integrated sustainable solutions, with its EptaTechnica brand offering modular CO2 (R744) systems, new Zenith cabinets compatible with CO2 or propane (R290) and Servitization equipment management. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

On April 6 Texas-based Buc-ee’s opened its first travel center featuring CO2 (R744) refrigeration in Huber Heights, Ohio, according to Scott Ray, the company’s Director of Design, Construction and Procurement. ⁠Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com⁠

In addition to the industry’s general growth, its acceptance of higher water temperatures and simultaneous concerns around excessive water use have stoked demand for Jaeggi’s hybrid dry cooler. Jeffrey Hargreaves, Business Development Director for Data Centers at Jaeggi, has been in the data center industry for more than a decade, and, since he started, acceptable water temperatures for cooling ha...

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)’s Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) has concluded that trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), formed in the atmosphere by the breakdown of certain f-gases, should be classified and labelled as toxic to reproduction. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

In addition to what we published this week, these stories caught our eye. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

A major American tech company is decarbonizing hydronic space heating and domestic hot water production in its San Francisco Bay Area buildings by replacing legacy gas boilers with water-to-water CO2 (R744) heat pumps manufactured by Flow Environmental Systems. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

After receiving industry input, the U.K.’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has announced that it will delay implementing changes to the country’s HFC phasedown schedule. The proposed changes, which were open for public comment from November 5 to December 17, 2025, were intended to address shortcomings in the U.K.’s HFC phase-out commitments.  Read the full story on Natur...

Elemental Impact, a nonprofit that invests in climate tech, has launched the Data Center Innovation Initiative (DCII), with up to $5 million (€4.3 million) in funding available to companies developing “novel industrial cooling solutions to reduce energy and water use.” Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

ALDI achieved the highest score among 16 U.S. food retailers in the Environmental Investigation Agency’s (EIA) 2026 Climate-Friendly Supermarkets Scorecard, which evaluates the progress supermarkets are making in phasing out HFCs from their refrigeration systems.  Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Jaeggi is a Swiss manufacturer of dry coolers and gas condensers, founded in 1929 in Berne. The company began producing finned heat exchangers for refrigeration systems in 1934 and later developed hybrid dry cooling technology, introducing its HTK hybrid dry cooler in 1988 and patenting the innovation in 1992. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

A diverse panel of HVAC experts, who are helping to chart a path for natural refrigerants like CO2 (R744) and propane (R290) to be used in HVAC applications in the U.S., described their approaches at the ATMOsphere (ATMO) America 2026, held June 2–3 in Tarrytown, New York. (ATMOsphere is the publisher of NaturalRefrigerants.com.) Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science and technology agency, has opened a new edge data center designed to assist in the development of robots and related sensors that uses two air-cooled 100kW (28.4TR) CO2 (R744) chillers for cooling. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

A panel of independent New York grocers from the National Supermarket Association, Aurora Grocery Group and Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace highlighted the importance of embracing CO2 (R744) refrigeration ahead of the state’s HFC regulations at ATMOsphere America Summit 2026 . Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

ATMOsphere, publisher of NaturalRefrigerants.com , will host a webinar to discuss the findings of a recently published report by Hanon Systems estimating the amount of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) generated in Europe by emissions of refrigerants HFC-134a and HFO-1234yf from car cooling and heating systems. The webinar will be held on June 18 at 3 pm CEST. You can register for the event here . Read t...

ATMOsphere, publisher of NaturalRefrigerants.com, estimated that ⁠there were just 10⁠ transcritical CO2 (R744) refrigeration systems installed in South Korea as of December 2025. In this nascent market the leading player is Arneg Korea, which was ⁠founded in 1999⁠ and has been developing CO2 refrigeration technology for the food retail sector since 2008, according to CEO SungKyu Lee.  ⁠Read the fu...

New Jersey-based Saker Shoprite opened its first CO2 (R744) supermarket in 2024, and, according to Michael J. Marotta, VP of Technical Services, the biggest takeaway from the project wasn’t that the technology worked but “how our people adapted faster than expected.” Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

The articles in the podcast are as follows: Hanon Systems Estimates TFA Levels Generated by Automotive F-Gas Emissions Sanden Is Developing a Propane-Based MAC System for EVs with a ‘Major’ Chinese Automaker Aldi Opens the U.K.’s ‘Largest Supermarket Distribution Center,’ Which Is Equipped with an 8.2MW CO2 Refrigeration System Caverion Commissions 12MW of Fenagy’s 30MW Hydrocarbon Heat Pump Syste...

Bluu unit, a European alliance of HVAC&R contractors dedicated to promoting the use of natural refrigerants, has appointed Patrick Peters as its Co-CEO. Peters will be responsible for operational strategy development for organic growth, with a focus on sales, business development, procurement, marketing and technical advancement. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Finnish contractor Caverion is commissioning two hydrocarbon heat pump modules in Kajaani, representing 12MW (3,412TR) of a planned 30MW (8,5230TR) system. The units, manufactured by Fenagy , support the city’s district heating network using data center waste heat. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com.

Engineering startup Nusku aims to replace gas boilers in U.K. homes with an air-to-water propane (R290) heat pump featuring an integrated storage tank, according to CEO Russell Murchie. The startup designed the heat pump for use in retrofit applications in existing U.K. housing with hydronic radiator systems. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Hanon Systems , a major South Korean provider of automotive thermal management systems, has released a report estimating the amount of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) generated in Europe by emissions of refrigerants HFC-134a and HFO-1234yf from car cooling and heating systems. The report also describes the opportunity to limit TFA creation via the use of CO2 (R744) and propane (R290) as alternative ref...

Aldi has announced the opening of what it said is the U.K.’s largest supermarket distribution center , a 120,000m2 (1.2 millionft2) facility in Bardon, England, equipped with an 8.6MW (2,445TR) CO2 (R744) refrigeration system. Details about the site’s refrigeration system were shared in a LinkedIn post by Ed Whinyates, Business Development Manager at Space Engineering Services , which designed and...

Sanden has announced that it is co-developing a propane (R290)-based integrated thermal management system (ITMS) for electric vehicles (EVs) with a “major” Chinese automaker . Sanden’s system uses an indirect setup with separate coolant and refrigerant circuits. The design is popular in mobile air-conditioning (MAC) systems for electric vehicles as it keeps propane out of the cabin. Read the full...