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Freeze, Sunjin environment Co., Ltd., MOU for refrigerant recovery and treatment cooperation

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2021-12-08 02:23
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To promote the purpose of refrigerant management to slow climate change,

이승용 프리즈 대표(좌)와 이강우 선진환경 대표가 비대면 MOU를 체결하고 기념촬영하고 있다.

▲ Lee Seung-yong, CEO of Freeze, signed a non-face-to-face MOU with Lee Gang-woo, CEO of Sunjin Environment Co., Ltd. and is taking a commemorative photos.

Freeze (CEO Lee Seung-yong), a company specializing in cold chain management solutions, and Sunjin environment Co., Ltd., a company specializing in recovering and treating waste refrigerants, joined hands to protect climate change and the environment.

It operates a cold chain management solution called "Culinic," such as location-based refrigerator A/S matching and refrigerator history tracking, and recovers freeze repair companies nationwide and produces waste refrigerants as renewable refrigerants or destroys the environment.

The two companies are determined to take the lead in slowing climate change and global warming by promoting the purpose of refrigerant management for environmental protection through this business agreement. The business agreement was conducted non-face-to-face due to COVID-19.

Mandatory refrigerant management. "Full of loopholes."

Refrigerants used in refrigerators are major substances that cause climate change and ozone layer destruction and cannot be released into the atmosphere. Refrigerant management is mandatory for users (company, institution, etc.) who use refrigerators with a certain standard (20RT or more or a daily refrigeration capacity of 20 tons or more).

Korea's annual refrigerant consumption is estimated to reach 35,000 tons, and the amount of refrigerant recovered and processed is very insignificant, accounting for 1% of annual consumption. When the user needs to repair the refrigerator, he or she must request the recovery and treatment (renewal and destruction) company to recover and repair it, and the recovered refrigerant must be regenerated and destroyed.

As of November 2021, about 600 companies were registered as refrigerant recovery companies, but only three of them can treat recovered refrigerants (renewal and destruction), and 99.5% of registered companies can recover refrigerants, but cannot.

Legally, users (company and institution), who are refrigerant emitters, are required to sign contracts with recovery companies that can be processed, but 99.5% of recovery companies cannot sign contracts. In the end, only three out of 600 companies can sign contracts with emitters. 99.5% of recovery companies cannot carry recovered refrigerants either. Since recovered refrigerants are classified as waste, it is virtually illegal to transport waste refrigerants to treatment companies.

An official from Freeze pointed out, "As a result, 99.5% of recovery companies that cannot be processed directly cannot make refrigerant recovery contracts or processing," adding, "Because of the perception that they only need to register for recovery and inaccurate information, repair companies that have spent money and time become victims."

Refrigerant management began in November 2018, but there are many loopholes in the management system and law as it is still busy registering the recovery business without proper information being delivered to practitioners.

The repair company does not necessarily need to register in the recovery business, and if necessary, the recovery and treatment can be entrusted to the treatment company. It is faster and more accurate to entrust it to a professional processing company in all aspects, including working hours, costs, laws, and post-processing.

Establishment of a consignment system for refrigerant recovery and treatment.

Freeze plans to establish a system to more easily entrust refrigerant recovery and treatment through a business agreement with Sunjin environment Co., Ltd. In particular, efforts will be made to deliver information so that there is no confusion to repair companies operating on the front line due to accurate information on refrigerant recovery and changes in related laws and regulations. Through this, the goal is to raise the refrigerant recovery and throughput, which is only 1% level, to 10%.

Refrigerant management is essential for environmental protection, but there is no work available after registration compared to the time and cost that repair companies at the crossroads of choice invest in registering the recovery business, said Lee Seung-yong, CEO of Freeze.

Reporter Kang Eunchul. eckang@kharn.kr

https://www.coldchainnews.kr/news/article.html?no=24024