23 October 2025
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Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials has appointed Dr. Samuel F Yana Motta as the company’s Global Refrigerant Applications Director.
Yana Motta has spent 30-plus years in the refrigerant industry, and is recognised for contributing to the development of industry-leading low global-warming potential (GWP) refrigerants including R1234yf and R1234ze, and blends using HFOs such as R448A.
He will be responsible for aligning product development for the automotive and stationary markets and will also set the vision for the new Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials application laboratory in Houston, Texas.
Yana Motta served in various senior leadership positions at Honeywell for 20 years, first as Global Director of Applications and then as research fellow for the refrigerants business. Most recently, he served as a R&D scientist/engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Before Honeywell, he worked for five years at Pontifícia Universidad Católica do Rio de Janeiro and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
