Thai retailer Tesco Lotus is converting 900 Express stores to Honeywell’s Solstice N40 refrigerant to reduce carbon emissions. It is the first implementation in Asia of Solstice N40, the  non-flammable replacement for R404A in the supermarket industry.

Tesco Group — the global parent company of Tesco Lotus in Thailand — is upgrading its supermarket refrigeration systems worldwide to lower-GWP refrigerants as part of its commitment to reduce its carbon footprint. By converting all of its 1,500 Express stores in Thailand over the next two years to Solstice N40 (R448A), the retail giant aims to achieve energy savings of up to 10%. This is equivalent to removing more than 67,000 cars from the road. 

Wholesale retailer Makro has replaced the high-GWP refrigerant R404A with Honeywell's Solstice N40 (R448A) at two of its Spanish stores.

Makro, part of the Metro Group, has more than 2,700 employees at 37 stores across Spain and boasts almost 1 million registered users.