The ATMOsphere Podcast Network

Hillphoenix is aiming to cut down lead times and lower the total cost of ownership for end users with its new industrial rack platform for transcritical CO2 (R744), according to Ousama Sabra, Industrial Sales Manager East at the company. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Refra , a Lithuanian manufacturer of natural refrigerant-based chillers, heat pumps and refrigeration equipment, has launched Oasis , a new standard line of propane (R290) water-to-water heat pumps and chillers. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

The articles in the podcast are as follows: ATMOsphere Releases New Report on Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration with Natural Refrigerants New York Grocer DeCicco & Sons to Open Ninth CO2 Store and First R290 Store Panasonic Launches Heating-Optimized Air-to-Water R290 Heat Pump Range for Commercial Applications IIAR 2026: Copeland Makes SPH’s High-Temperature Heat Pump Available in North...

Enrico Boscaro, Group Marketing Manager for HVAC Industrial at Carel, has a unique vantage point into where the data center cooling sector is headed. Along with his work at Carel he is also the chairman of Eurovent’s IT cooling task force. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com.

ATMOsphere, publisher of NaturalRefrigerants.com, has released a new report, “Refrigeration: Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration with Natural Refrigerants” 2025, featuring data on food retail and industrial sites around the world using natural refrigerants. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

DeCicco & Sons , which operates 11 high-end supermarkets in Westchester and Putnam counties, New York (north of New York City), is opening in May its first Connecticut store in Greenwich, its seventh new store to be equipped with transcritical CO2 (R744) refrigeration in the past decade, along with two converted stores. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com.

The Greener Reefer Transition Alliance, a collaborative industry initiative led by the GIZ (German Society for International Cooperation), has introduced an emissions and cost simulator that compares refrigerants used in maritime containers (reefers) across real-world trade routes. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

U.S. compressor manufacturer Copeland has made ThermBooster, a high-temperature heat pump (HTHP) by Sustainable Process Heat (SPH), available in North America. The unit delivers steam at up to 180°C (356°F) using hydrocarbons or other low-GWP refrigerants. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Panasonic Heating and Cooling Solutions, the European division of Japan-based Panasonic , has launched the AQUA-G EVO series , a new propane (R290) air-to-water (A2W) heat pump range optimized for heating in commercial, light industrial and multi-residential applications. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Italian air heat exchanger manufacturer LU-VE Group has supplied evaporators for a 1.5MW (426.5TR) transcritical CO2 (R744) system to cool a 1,000m2 (10,760ft2) data center in Paterna, Spain. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

SWEP , a global manufacturer headquartered in Landskrona, Sweden, has been producing brazed plate heat exchangers (BPHEs) since 1983 . A subsidiary of the Dover Corporation since 1994, the company operates five production facilities across three continents and maintains entities in more than 20 countries . Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

The National Supermarket Association (NSA), a New York-based trade association for about 1,200 independent supermarkets in the New York Metropolitan Area and other East Coast cities, is seeking support for its members to make the transition from HFC refrigeration to systems using natural refrigerants such as CO2 (R744) and propane (R290). Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Magnotherm Solutions is launching its first deployment of refrigerant-free magnetic cooling cabinets in collaboration with REWE supermarkets, with the retailer to install 10 to 20 units in 2026, according to Timur Sirman, CEO and Co-Founder of the German startup. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Chile-based multinational food retailer Cencosud has made natural refrigerants one of the key pillars of its decarbonization strategy, according to Raúl Troncoso Urquiza, the company’s Regional Sustainability Manager. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com.

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced on March 25 that until May 25 EU stakeholders can provide comments that will help inform the final opinion of the Committee for Socio-economic Analysis (SEAC) regarding restrictions on PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), including applications of fluorinated gases. ⁠Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com.⁠

Carel is a global manufacturer of HVAC&R industry controllers, sensors and humidifiers as well as components, including inverters and electronic expansion valves. The company was founded in 1973 in Padua, Italy, originally as a manufacturer of electric cabinets for the air-conditioning industry. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

The articles in the podcast are as follows: MCE 2026: Danfoss Debuts Isobutane Turbocor Compressor Designed for Comfort and Data Center Cooling IKEA Seeks Manufacturers and Maintenance Suppliers Support for Natural Refrigerant Solutions Across Its Global Portfolio IIAR 2026: CO2 Components Account for ‘Well Over’ 50% of the Henry Group’s Business at Its Illinois Factory NASRC Survey: Transcritical...

Two multi-family buildings in Dortmund, Germany, recently replaced their gas-powered boilers with a Vaillant propane (R290) heat pump system with a total heating capacity of 80kW (22.7TR). Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

Transcritical CO2 (R744) systems are poised to be the dominant refrigeration technology in new U.S. food retail stores operated by chains through 2029, according to the Food Retailer Survey Report , just released by the North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council (NASRC). Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

A test at the Waco, Texas, plant of food-processing giant Cargill showed that airflow diffusers directing the flow of air in a deli-meat cooling room toward turkey rolls were able to reduce the time it takes for the product temperature to reach 4°C (39°F) by two to three hours. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com.

Danfoss is targeting the comfort and data center cooling markets with its new oil-free isobutane (R600a) Turbocor compressor , which is being shown for the first time at the Mostra Convegno Expocomfort (MCE) 2026 in Milan. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

CO2 (R744) components make up “well over” 50% of the Henry Group’s business at its factory in Chatham, Illinois, according to Aaron Arnold, a Sales Manager at the company.  Arnold and his colleague, Jesse Meredeith, Regional Sales, shared the rising demand for the company’s R744 components during an interview at the 2026 IIAR Expo, held March 15–18 in San Antonio, Texas. Read the full story on Nat...

David Osma, Project Engineer at Colombia-based TEKO Américas, said CO2 (R744) refrigeration has reached an “inflection point” in Latin America. “Anything that’s new, people will ask if it’s CO2,” said Osma. “The end users already know what CO2 is. Before, they didn’t really understand why they should move to CO2, and now it’s entirely different. Both industrial end users and supermarkets are consi...

The Ingka Group, IKEA’s largest retailer, is seeking manufacturer support to tackle upfront costs and operations of natural refrigerant solutions across its global portfolio, according to Joana Pereira, Ingka’s Business Development Leader for Net Zero Transition.  Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com

The articles in the podcast are as follows: Advansor Announces New CO2 Heat Pump With Up to 50MW of Heating Capacity in Parallel Installation IIAR 2026: Zero Zone Launches New Transcritical CO2 Condensing Unit Superpollutant Action Initiative Is Launched to Target F-Gases and Other High-GWP Substances Interview: HYTING’s Founder Discusses Catalytic Hydrogen Air-Heating, Peak Shaving and Global Gro...