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Webinar Replay: Mixing Refrigerants: Addressing Misinformation and Best Practices

May 13, 2025 | 1 minute read

This webinar was recorded May 13, 2025.

The R-454B shortage is creating serious challenges across the industry—and with it, dangerous and costly misinformation about mixing refrigerants is spreading rapidly.

Watch HARDI CEO Talbot Gee and Mike Breen, NATE Technical Committee member and veteran of Auer Steel, for a technical discussion focused on the facts distributors and contractors need to protect their businesses and customers.

This replay tackles the pressing questions:

  • What symptoms might end-users experience if systems are topped off with the wrong refrigerant?

  • What steps should a technician take to safely repair an A2L system with mixed refrigerants?

  • Is it legal—or ever advisable—to mix refrigerants in today’s systems?

Don’t risk compliance issues, equipment failures, or customer safety.

Distributors: This webinar replay is open to all, so please share it with your contractor customers.


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Talbot Gee

As HARDI’s CEO, Talbot oversees the association’s new and ongoing efforts to increase distributor members’ competitive advantage, and that of their committed supplier partners and customers, in their respective markets through proprietary education and professional development, benchmarking and market data analyses, government affairs and advocacy, and the exchange of proven best practices. Talbot graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD with a B.A.

Expertise: Leadership, HVACR Distribution, HVACR Policy

Please contact events@hardinet.org to book Talbot as a speaker at your next conference or event.

Alex Ayers

Alex Ayers is the Vice President of Government Affairs for Heating, Air-conditioning, & Refrigeration Distributors International. As a recovering political nerd and current policy wonk, Alex is HARDI’s primary lobbyist and regulatory expert. Growing up in Iowa, Alex was exposed early to local politics through the first in the nation Iowa Caucuses, participating as a county caucus delegate to develop the grassroots planks that go into creating the party platform. Since moving to Washington, DC, Alex has spent over a decade lobbying, publishing papers, and testifying in various policy areas, including taxes, energy, environment, agriculture, and economics. His research has been cited by organizations such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Tax Foundation.

Expertise: HVACR Policy, Government Affairs, and Political Advocacy

Please contact events@hardinet.org to book Alex as a speaker at your next conference or event. Press Contacts - to request a quote or an interview, complete this form.

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