Taking Care of Our Planet is our #1 commitment For millions of years our planet has enjoyed a substantially balanced existence, but during the last few decades, certain problems have occurred, seriously placing the survival of future generations at risk.   The once most common and effective fire extinguishing agent is now the major destroyer of the stratospheric ozone shield, the screen that filters out the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays and regulates the amount reaching the earth’s surface. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that whilst halon gases account for 2% of all the chlorinated halocarbons produced, they are responsible for almost 25% of the ozone depletion. While the total combined abundance of ozone-depleting compounds which is the sum of total chlorine and bromine has peaked in about 1994 is now slowly declining, the total bromine is still increasing. This means that abundances of most of the Halons continue to increase due to emissions from the “halon bank” largely in developed countries, and new production of Halons in developing countries.   In eliminating Halons the problem arises as to how to replace them, since it is necessary to continue to protect mankind and worldly goods from fire risks. In other words, the advantage of Halon decommissioning must also be compared to the environmental impact of each alternative products which will be used as substitutes.   Ozone Depletion Potentials and Global Warming Potentials could be useful to evaluate the environmental data of a specific compounds to asses the effects on the climate of different fluorocarbons. To assess the effect on the climate of other fire protection technologies it must be taken into account the total impact on global warming (TEWI) which is principally influenced by the extinguishing agent and by the hardware required (cylinders, piping, valves, etc.). Inert Gases to reach the same performance as Halocarbons will require an higher number of hi-pressure cylinders which has to be taken into consideration assessing their overall environmental impact. It has been suggested that the TEWI of Inert Gases System is the double compared to a Fluorocarbons system.   To develop our NAF Extinguishing Agents we committed ourselves to minimize the overall environmental impact of our products.