17 December 2024
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Quidos has created a new voluntary scheme, via its F-Gas Register, for members of the supply chain to demonstrate they are exceeding the minimum standards required by F-Gas regulations.
The Premium Supplier scheme has been introduced by Graeme Fox, recently appointed as Quidos’ F-Gas Register Director, who implemented a similar programme during his time at REFCOM.
He said: “When I created the scheme in my previous industry role it was widely lauded as a positive move for the industry sector in helping suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers to signal their intent in demonstrating our sector could be professional in its sales of equipment containing refrigerants than can be damaging to the environment if released to the atmosphere.
"The initiative won industry awards for its progressive stance at the time and I am excited to be driving this forward and improving on the offering to industry. This new scheme will fully audit suppliers ensuring they are properly training and checking their sales staff to make sure they only sell to appropriately qualified and certified business entities. If you do not audit properly then how can you be confident that your scheme does what it claims?
"The F-Gas Register is proud to be championing best practice and demonstrating its commitment to professionalism and protecting the interests of contractor members who are frequently undercut by rogue traders obtaining systems and equipment illegally through online sellers, and a supply chain which has been known to supply non-registered businesses without obtaining the legally required evidence of registration.''
Logicool Air Conditioning became the first supplier to back the scheme, with wholesale group Wolseley Climate Centre also swiftly declaring its support.
The F-Gas Register operates a mandatory registration scheme under licence to the Secretary of State which currently has 3,500 companies registered.
