Correcting product name in press release issued Friday, April 25

Business Wire, April 28, 1997

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Correcting product name in press release issued Friday, April 25, xxx should read HFC245fa (sted HFC245a), corrected version follows:

AlliedSignal's HFC-245fa To Support Energy Department's new energy efficiency standards for refrigerators

Business Editors

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 1997-- AlliedSignal Inc. (NYSE:ALD) said today that its HFC-245fa (hydrofluorocarbon) foam blowing agent will play an important role in enabling household refrigerators and freezers to meet the new energy efficiency standards recently set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

HFC-245fa is AlliedSignal's non-ozone-depleting foam-blowing agent candidate to replace HCFC-141b (hydrochlorofluorocarbon), which is used to produce foam insulation used in refrigerators and freezers. HCFC-141b is also used in building construction materials and other industrial applications. More than 25 million pounds of HCFC-141b are sold annually to the U.S. domestic appliance industries.

The U.S. EPA has scheduled HCFC-141b for phaseout on Jan. 1, 2003, due to its potential to deplete the earth's stratospheric ozone layer. The phaseout is part of Clean Air Act requirements stemming from the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, an international agreement to phaseout the production of CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons) and other ozone-depleting compounds. The U.S. is one of more than 90 international signatories to the Montreal Protocol.

The Department of Energy's new standards call for improving the energy efficiency of refrigerators and freezers by 30 percent by July, 2001. Tom Burke, AllliedSignal's business unit leader, refrigerants & foams, said the company is working closely with its appliance customers to help in the conversion to HFC-245fa in time to ensure manufacturers can meet this deadline and make a smooth transition to the new blowing agent. "We are intensifying our efforts to ensure that we bring our third-generation blowing agent HFC-245fa to our worldwide customers when they will need it," Burke said.

"Our on-going HFC-245fa development programs and customer trials continue to show that the product is the leading replacement candidate for HCFC-141b in refrigerator insulation applications, Burke added. "The benefits of HFC-245fa are two-fold: allow refrigerator manufacturers to meet the DOE's new 2001 standards and the EPA's 2003 phaseout date for HCFC-141b."

He pointed out that the significant characteristics of HFC-245fa include it being non-ozone-depleting and non-flammable, while also having a low Global Warming Potential (GWP).

HFC-245fa also has undergone several successful third-party product trials. One of the most recent trials was conducted by the Association of the Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM). The AHAM product trial indicated that HFC-245fa's performance characteristics can match -- and sometimes even exceed -- those of HCFC-141b.

AlliedSignal Inc. is an advanced technology and manufacturing company serving customers worldwide with aerospace and automotive products, chemicals, fibers, plastics and advanced materials. Its fluorine business and corporate headquarters are in Morris Township. AlliedSignal is among the largest 75 companies on the Fortune 500 list, and it is one of the 30 companies included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company employs more than 77,000 people in 40 countries.

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