An article by Joanna Ryńska regarding the quality of the Polish F-gas certification system has appeared in the monthly magazine Rynek Instalacyjny. The publication addresses an issue that industry representatives have been discussing for years: the growing number of substandard training courses and exams, and their impact on workplace safety and the quality of services […]
The New F-gas Certification — Upcoming Changes and the Market Outlook Joanna Ryńska The requirements for competence in the refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heat-pump industry on the European market are changing along with technology and new regulations. Everyone who currently holds an F-gas certificate for personnel will have to update their credentials, while new adepts of […]
Between 2022 and 2024, almost 430,000 heat-pump investments were carried out in Poland. In the vast majority of cases, these installations were fitted with air-source heat pumps, which run on fluorinated refrigerants known as F-gases. These solutions, although popular, have for years been subject to increasingly restrictive regulations related to the impact of the refrigerants […]
Refrigerants and the Personnel Certificate — Upcoming Changes for the Heat-Pump Industry Joanna Ryńska People engaged in the installation, repair, maintenance, servicing, dismantling, recovery, and leak checking of refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heat-pump equipment containing refrigerants from the F-gas group must hold a personnel certificate issued by a personnel-certifying body (in Poland, this is the Office […]
The illegal trade in F-gases today goes beyond mere cross-border smuggling. The HVACR industry faces an increasing threat from mislabeled refrigerants, substances of unknown origin and composition, and F-gas certificates issued without examinations by unscrupulous certification bodies. This illegal trade harms the environment, distorts fair competition, and poses a real danger to installers, service technicians, […]
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