SPAIN: Huayi has announced that the low GWP refrigerant R-449A is not suitable for direct conversions (drop-in) of R404A in its Cubigel compressors.
Developed by Chemours and marketed as Opteon XP40, R-449A has a GWP of 1282, which although not very low, is significantly lower than that of R-404A.
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