Interview: China Will Be the World’s Leading Market for Natural Refrigerant Systems, Says ArkRef’s CEO

In 2025 there were 25 supermarkets and 10 industrial sites in China with transcritical CO2 (R744) refrigeration systems, according to ATMOsphere, publisher of NaturalRefrigerants.com. That same year there were an estimated 111,650 stores and industrial sites in Europe using transcritical CO2 refrigeration systems. While that gap is immense, Noah Song, CEO at Chinese industrial refrigeration systems manufacturer ArkRef believes it can be closed – with domestic manufacturers leading the way.Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com