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 […]
Legal requirements, technical possibilities, prospects Anna Choma Introduction In 2026, the servicing of refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heat-pump equipment ceases to be merely an element of standard operational maintenance. This results from the parallel influence of regulatory and technical factors that directly affect operating costs and the reliability of installations. On the one hand, there is […]
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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