Honeywell International announced in the middle of this August that Whirlpool decided to adopt Honeywell’s “Solsticetm Liquid Blowing Agent LBA” for all U.S. made refrigerators of Whirlpool Corporation known as the foremost refrigerator manufacturer.

Honeywell’s environment-friendly “Solstice” liquid blowing agent has the lowest GWP (global warming potential) of all ozone-layer nondestructive substitutes being used now. In addition, it is featured to be more efficient than the usually-used hydrocarbons like C-pentane as well as to excel in insulating and energy-saving properties at low temperatures. On the other hand, Whirlpool, as an advanced refrigerator manufacturer who has adopted a new-type blowing agent into its refrigerators for the first time in the US, prospects to be able to supply its products having superior energy efficiency and environmental contribution to competitors’ in the future.

Furthermore, it has been proved by testing that Honeywell’s new blowing agent improves energy-consuming efficiency by 8 to 10% comparing with the refrigerator platform in use of hydrocarbon blowing insulators, and that it brings 2% more efficiency than HFC-245fa which is most popularly used in the US.

Whirlpool’s production of refrigerators using the new blowing agent is scheduled to start at the end of 2013, and the demand for blowing agents will draw more attention and expectation from now on.