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Investment Project for Phasing out CFCs at FAEM S.A.
Project / Program Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): Refrigeration (domestic), Foams (rigid)
Title: Investment project for phasing out CFCs at FAEM S.A.
Donor country/ organization: Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
Other donors / organizations involved: UNIDO
Beneficiary countries / regions: Cameroon / Africa
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions: FAEM S.A.
Duration: 18 months
Starting Date: July 1994
Completion date: June 1996
Project / Program budget: US4 1,935,860
Finance / Type of cooperation: grant / technical cooperation

II. Project / programme description

  1. Objectives
    To eliminate the use of ODS (ozone depleting substances) as CFC 11 and CFC 12 in the production of domestic refrigerators, freezers and cold rooms insulation at FAEM through conversion to the use of HFC 134a as refrigerant for the refrigerators and freezers and cyclopentane as blowing agent for the polyurethane insulation foam.
  2. Activities / contents
    • Procurement of new machinery and equipment
    • Rebuilding and partially replacing of presently used equipment, such as vacuum pumps
    • Redesign, reconstruction, prototype manufacturing and testing of refrigerators and freezers
    • Installation, commissioning, training of national personnel in Europe and on-the-job training, trial operation and start-up.
  3. Outcomes / impacts
    Converted production lines to non-CFC using one, producing CFC-free refrigerators and freezers.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
    environment management (ozone layer protection), compliance with international conventions and global agreements and protocols

III. Contact point:

Mr. S.M. Si Ahmed, Acting Director, Montreal Protocol Branch
Sectoral Support and Environmental Sustainability Division, UNIDO,
P.O. Box 400, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, Tel: 43-1-21131 3782, Fax: 43-1-21131 6804

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