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Carlsberg, a member of the “Refrigerants, Naturally!” campaign, has released its annual report. The company has redefined its refrigerant strategy, ensuring that all newly purchased coolers use climate-friendly hydrocarbon refrigerant and are equipped with an energy-saving management system whenever possible.

Within Refrigerants Naturally!, a coalition of companies and NGOs dedicated to increasing the use of HFC-free coolers, Carlsberg Group is committed to combat climate change and ozone layer depletion by substituting point-of-sale coolers that contain harmful fluorinated refrigerant gases, such as CFCs, HCFCs and HFCs, with ones that contain natural refrigerants.

As a result of this commitment, the company has introduced more than 4,000 HFC-free coolers in Denmark and Sweden. The phase-in of HFC-free coolers focused initially on Scandinavia where a service and maintenance setup for hydrocarbon commercial cooling cabinets had already been in place.

Opting for hydrocarbon coolers

In its latest annual report, Carlsberg reports that in 2009 it “redefined its strategy, ensuring that newly purchased coolers have the more climate-friendly HC [hydrocarbon] as coolant and are equipped with an energy-saving management system in markets where supply and the required technical support are available”. The company is hence concerned with minimising both direct and indirect emissions from the equipment cooling its products.

Besides committing to continue phasing-in HFC-free coolers in 2010, Carlsberg Group maintains that it will furthermore continue the cooperation with suppliers in the development of more efficient HFC-free point of sales equipment.

A redefined environmental strategy

The newly redefined refrigerant strategy of Carlsberg embracing hydrocarbon refrigerants is part of a wider environmental strategy developed in 2009 based on an assessment of its current performance on greenhouse gas emissions throughout its value chain. Its ambition is to sustain its industry leader position and be the most efficient global brewer when it comes to beer and soft drinks production’s performance for energy use and CO₂ emissions.