VATIS UPDATE Article

India is the second largest producer of HCFC-22 among the Article 5 countries in the world. There are 5 production facilities of HCFC-22 in the country. These plants are now producing only HCFC-22, since production and consumption of CFCs have already been phased-out from 1st January 2010. The country has also successfully achieved the freeze of HCFC production and consumption as on 1.1.2013 and 10% phase-out of the baseline of production and consumption of HCFCs as on 1.1.2015 in line with the accelerated phase-out schedule of the Montreal Protocol.

The phase-out of production of HCFC-22 in India is being monitored closely. It has been proposed to carry out an audit of the 5 HCFC-22 production facilities in India to analyze the pricing trends of HCFC-22. The objective of the audit is to analyze the pricing trends of domestically produced HCFC-22 for the past 5 years for all the 5 HCFC-22 production plants in the country, both for individual plant as well as for national production, taking into account the international price trend of HCFC-22.