DuPont has announced that it has increased capacity of Opteon YF (HFO-1234yf) refrigerant to meet demand this year and is continuing to work to establish lower-cost manufacturing to meet the long-term needs of automotive customers.
DuPont was the first company to offer commercial-scale manufacturing of HFO-1234yf. The company began making commercial shipments from a facility in Japan in November 2011 and from a facility in China in October 2012. Today the company announced that in Japan it has achieved its goals for expanding capacity in support of 2014 demand and that additional capacity at its China facility will be available by July 2015. The China facility will realise a further capacity expansion in 2016.

Thierry FJ Vanlancker, president, DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts, said: 'DuPont continues to scale-up supply of this breakthrough product and to pursue investments in large-scale and lower-cost production to enable the growing adoption of HFO-1234yf. We were the first to deliver supply of HFO-1234yf and we are committed to investing further as demand grows, particularly now that industry and government bodies have re-affirmed the safety of this product.'