GERMANY: Refrigerant leakage from air con and refrigeration methods in Germany was down to only 1.12% in 2022.

In figures launched by the VDKF, Germany’s refrigeration and air con contractors’ affiliation, present a 24% leakage fee discount on 2021 and a 65% discount on 2017. 

The figures Include accidents and signify the common for all system sorts – air con methods, business refrigeration, industrial refrigeration and particular methods. They are taken from the VDKF’s on-line F-gas recording, reporting and monitoring software program, VDKF-LEC, and signify figures from 54,000 operators and over 238,000 methods.

While the figures solely signify a comparatively small a part of the overall variety of German methods, they present that leakage charges in Germany are steadily declining.