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CO2 Leaves a Smaller Carbon Footprint in Large-Format Food Retail Market

The large-format food retail market has always been at the leading edge of refrigeration technology. Market drivers and refrigerant regulations in recent years have added a focus on sustainability to the list of priorities for large format retailers. Among the natural refrigerant alternatives suitable for these centralized applications, CO2 leads the pack. 

Offering zero ozone depletion potential and a global warming potential of 1, CO2 is often considered the environmental standard by which all other refrigerants are measured. In a regulatory era when chlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons are being phased out due to their negative environmental impacts, CO2’s harmless environmental profile has led to a broad global uptake in large-format refrigeration applications.