Win a free seat at ATMOsphere America - take the Natural Refrigerants survey!

This month marketing and communications specialist shecco has launched its first ever North American Natural Refrigerants survey, aimed at collecting industry perspectives on the use of natural working fluids in Canadian, Mexican and US heating, air conditioning and refrigeration markets. Survey respondents will be entered into a prize draw to win a free seat at ATMOsphere America!

The launch of the North American survey, follows the successful 2011 global HVAC&R survey, the results of which were published in the “GUIDE 2012: Natural Refrigerants – Market Growth for Europe”. Results from the North American survey will be published in the second of shecco’s reports for business and policy leaders, “GUIDE 2012: Natural Refrigerants – North America’s Market Potential”.

What are the promising applications for natural refrigerants in North America?

With growing interest in natural refrigerant applications but little data on the market prospective for natural refrigerant technology in North America, results from this survey will paint a clear picture of Canadian, Mexican and US expectations for the HVAC&R industry.

Filling in the survey will take 15 minutes, and in addition to being entered into the ATMOsphere prize draw, survey respondents receive a free business directory entry in the ““GUIDE 2012: Natural Refrigerants – North America’s Market Potential”.

The North American survey questions cover the following topics:

Availability of Natural Refrigerant (NR) products & services
Information & Awareness levels among the industry and customers
Overall policy & business climates for NR
Market forecasts by industry sector and natural refrigerant for the period 2012-2020
Overall leadership potential of the North American HVAC&R industry
Purchasing criteria for HVAC&R equipment and how NR technology performs in comparison to conventional refrigerant systems
Willingness-to-pay for NR systems
Main policy & industry trends affecting the development of the HVAC&R market

To take the survey, please follow this link:

http://guide.shecco.com/SURVEY-NaturalRefrigerants-NorthAmerica-2012

Critical time for natural refrigerants in North America

Over the past two years a series of game changing developments for the natural refrigerant market have taken place in North America:

November 2010: The Consumer Goods Forum announced that it would start phasing out HFCs as of 2015 and replace them with non-HFC refrigerants;
November 2011: Hill PHOENIX Inc., a Dover Company, acquired Danish CO₂ specialist Advansor, creating the world’s largest CO2 manufacturer and enabling Hill PHOENIX to bring CO₂ refrigeration transcritical technology to the North American market;
December 2011: the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved three hydrocarbons refrigerants for use in household and small commercial stand-alone refrigerators and freezers.

The shecco North American survey and GUIDE therefore come at a key time when newcomers and experts alike seek to understand the rapidly evolving natural refrigerant market and the business case for CO₂, hydrocarbons and ammonia.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact shecco’s market research team at: research@shecco.com