It is sad whenever a company in HVACR cannot make a go of
it. Bristol Compressors has announced that they are closing after more than 40
years in business. They developed some innovative products, such as the Inertia
Compressors with suction valves built into pistons that separated allowing
suction gas to travel through the piston head, or the Twin-Single compressors
that had a unique crankshaft which moved both pistons up and down in one direction
and only one piston in the other direction. More details on the closing here https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/bristol-compressors-announces-closure/
Friday, August 17, 2018
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Chemours (Dupont) Buys ICOR International
I just got an email info blast from ICOR in which it states that ICOR is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Chemours. Tht surpised me, so I looked a littel further into it and found an article on :Cooling Post" dated April 8, 2018 which confrms that Chemours bought ICOR. Here is the link to the Cooling Post artcle
https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/chemours-buys-refrigerant-supplier-icor/
Here is the link to the info blast that ICOR sent me.
http://www.icorinternational.com/images/C-11673RisksofLow-QualityRefrigerants-ChemoursBranding.pdf
Basically it is warning against cheap refrigerant from unknown sources. As always, if you stick with legitimate supply houses you are pretty safe. If you get it off the back of someone's truck at midnight in the parking lot behind the bar, well you might not be getting what you think you are getting. Even ordering over the internet is risky if you are are buying it from someone outside of the normal distribution chain. There is now counterfeit refrigerant out there, so just because the jog says Honeywell or Chemours does not mean that it really is from that manufacturer. Some of the counterfeit stuff has hydrocarbons in it and could be quite dangerous in a system that is not designed for explosive refrigerant.
https://www.coolingpost.com/world-news/chemours-buys-refrigerant-supplier-icor/
Here is the link to the info blast that ICOR sent me.
http://www.icorinternational.com/images/C-11673RisksofLow-QualityRefrigerants-ChemoursBranding.pdf
Basically it is warning against cheap refrigerant from unknown sources. As always, if you stick with legitimate supply houses you are pretty safe. If you get it off the back of someone's truck at midnight in the parking lot behind the bar, well you might not be getting what you think you are getting. Even ordering over the internet is risky if you are are buying it from someone outside of the normal distribution chain. There is now counterfeit refrigerant out there, so just because the jog says Honeywell or Chemours does not mean that it really is from that manufacturer. Some of the counterfeit stuff has hydrocarbons in it and could be quite dangerous in a system that is not designed for explosive refrigerant.
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