A Georgia contractor is one of five new members of The Unified Group, billed as "a national network of quality mechanical contractors who share a commitment to remain independent."
Rockwell Automation has announced the launch of its Industrial Product Configurator application on Ptplace.com, the company’s business-to-business e-commerce site.
When the International Trade Fair for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Ventilation (IKK) first started 22 years ago, it was most decidedly a refrigeration show. After all, that was what was needed to keep everything from foods to medical supplies useable over long periods of time.
Air conditioning was mainly a matter for human comfort, more popular in the U.S. than Europe. But today air conditioning is a major part of the hvacr equation in Europe.
How would you like to have to pay the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) $10,000 just for having a large piece of mechanical refrigeration equipment running on R-22 — even if it wasn’t leaking?
For a number of years, advocates of chiller change-outs away from CFCs have bemoaned the slow pace of the process in the United States. And it appears that the same situation exists in Canada as well.
Budgetary restraints were challenging, but — with the help of a Georgia manufacturer — engineers, architects, and contractors were able to construct a state-of-the-art natatorium for Mainland Regional High School in the Atlantic City, NJ, suburb of Linwood.
Several aspects of the refrigerant and oil focus in this issue of The News veer away from the familiar world of CFCs, HCFCs, and even HFCs. And that is a reflection of the way the industry is going and may be going.
When some European countries made the move away from HFCs, they maintained that carbon dioxide could be a viable refrigerant. Now CO2 is gaining a practical foothold in the United States.
R-410A has been called the air conditioning refrigerant of the future and the long-term HFC replacement for R-22. But 410A is also turning up in refrigeration applications. One example is an ice rink in the Netherlands.