True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

Market Drivers for R-290Export Market demand

Lower GWP of gases

• R-134a = 1430

• R-404A = 3922

• R-290 = 3.3 and the charge size is about ½ that

of an F gas

Higher efficiencies

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

True Manufacturing - Ready for Hydrocarbon Refrigerants2007 Researched HC equipment in the EU

UL 471 Addition of Flammable Refrigerants

2009 SNAP Submittal for R-290 for Self-Contained Commercial Refrigeration

2009 Letter of Completeness (Allowed field testing of equipment)

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

True Manufacturing - Ready for Hydrocarbon Refrigerants

December 2011 SNAP Approval of R-290 in Commercial Refrigeration

May 2014 Venting Approved by SNAP (Federal Exemption Only)

April 2015 R-600A Approved for Commercial Self-Contained Units by SNAP

Proposed delisting of R-134a and R-404A (et al) for self-contained equipment • US final date should be released later this

summer(Proposed date 2016)• Canadian final date still pending (proposed

January 2019)

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The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

Moving Forward – Phase out of HFC’s

Ensuring supplier base is prepared Compressor ManufacturesR290 Refrigerant Supply

The magnitude of hours of testing Development Regulatory

The financial costs of design and manufacturing conversion

True Manufacturing Challenges

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

Initial Laboratory TestingSafety Testing (UL 471 & EN 60335-2-89)

Refrigerant leak testing requires specialized equipment for the determination of refrigerant concentration

Additional testing for the refrigerant leaks

Additional construction review and testing of the “new” models

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

What has True done to prepare the market for Hydrocarbon Refrigerants?

Education

Training

Supply's and tools

Education

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The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

Education

Collaborative efforts with industry suppliers and training organizations to develop training program and certification test for all industry service technicians

True Mfg. initiated and ultimately combined with RSES to create the certification and training course

Currently True has our preferred service providers go through the newly established RSES training and certification program for Hydrocarbon refrigerants

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

Training

Service Providers trained to work on HC equipment

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The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

From a manufacturing standpoint, the use of Hydrocarbon refrigerants pose some new challenges. Therefore the manufacturing area requires a safety zone and specialized equipment specifically designed for this use.

Today, there is advanced and safety integrated charging equipment that has been developed by leading process equipment manufacturers. True has partnered with the world's largest producer of charging equipment for hydrocarbons for the refrigeration industry.

True Manufacturing has teamed with this technology to deliver state of the art processing technology with integrated and proven safety systems to deliver the highest quality product with the highest level of safety available.

Safe Charging Technology combined with integrated Safety Monitoring System

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

Service Tools

True has developed a safe, disposable and environmentally friendly Hydrocarbon adsorption capture system.

Although Venting is approved with the most recent SNAP regulation this device was developed in the event HCs require to capture. This device is available for those service providers that prefer to capture the HC refrigerant during a system service event

True Manufacturing

The Industry’s Most Complete Refrigeration Source

Moving Forward – Energy Efficiency

GDM-41SL-54-HC-LD

R134a2.85 Kw

ENERGY STAR®

3.02.57 Kw

DOE 20172.36 Kw

Hydrocarbon2.15 Kw

•Meets E-Star 3.0 / DOE 2017•2.75 oz. of R-290