Hudson Technologies Announces Opening Of Service Depot In Chicago, Illinois

Launch Is Part Of Strategy To Improve Profitability By Offering Company’s Unique Services In Markets That Have High Concentration of Chillers

            PEARL RIVER, New York – Hudson Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: HDSN), a service provider to the comfort cooling and refrigeration industry, today announced it has opened a rapid-response service depot in Chicago, Illinois.  Industry data ranks Chicago as having the second highest concentration of installed chillers in the United States, making Chicago a prime target for Hudson and its RefrigerantSide™ Services. The Company estimates that the size of the Chicago market for Hudson’s high margin services could be as large as $30 million. 

“Chicago was selected as a site for a depot because it has a high concentration of large comfort cooling and process refrigeration systems that could benefit from Hudson’s proprietary technology,” said Kevin Zugibe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hudson. “The introduction of these depots, which offer our unique services to the refrigeration industry, is a critical element of our plans to rapidly grow our higher-margin service business and create greater shareholder value. In the coming weeks and months, we anticipate announcing the opening of additional depots across the country.”

The company said the Chicago service depot is staffed by experienced technicians equipped with rapid-recovery vehicles and the company’s patented Zugibeast refrigerant decontamination system.

            Founded in 1991, Hudson Technologies, Inc., has developed proprietary technology and specialty services designed to remove impurities frequently found in the refrigeration circuits of large comfort cooling and process refrigeration systems.  These contaminants deteriorate performance, cause air conditioning system outages and interrupt production. Hudson’s technology removes impurities rapidly without having to take the cooling system offline, offering very significant savings to customers.  This technology has reduced system downtime by as much as 80 percent when compared with conventional repair methods.

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