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What Are a Refrigeration Contractor’s Most Important Qualities?

Brain power and people power top the list

October 31, 2016

What are the two most important qualities customers look for in a refrigeration contractor? The first is responsiveness. As the saying goes, “Ice cream has no patience.” The second most important quality is knowledge in this era of constantly changing refrigerant and energy regulations.

Keilly Witman, owner, KW Refrigerant Management Strategy

Three Keys to Accelerating Adoption of Natural HVAC Refrigerants

A call for utility incentives, industry benchmarks, and uniform modeling solutions

Leigha Joyal

Keilly Witman

October 10, 2016

Despite the long-term energy savings and environmental benefits natural refrigerant systems offer, their higher upfront costs remain a primary barrier to retailers’ widespread adoption of these technologies.

EPA Announces 2016 GreenChill Winners

Supermarkets across the country recognized for environmental leadership

October 3, 2016

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized 13 companies in the supermarket industry for their achievements reducing emissions of refrigerants. EPA said the awardees are preventing refrigerant leaks, transitioning to climate-friendly refrigerants, and using advanced refrigeration technologies.

Hillphoenix Earns Sixth EPA GreenChill Award

Company promotes the advantages of investing in sustainable refrigeration systems

September 28, 2016

Hillphoenix announced it has earned the 2015-16 Store Certification Excellence award from EPA’s GreenChill Program. The award recognizes the manufacturer that has installed more advanced refrigeration systems in GreenChill-certified stores than any other manufacturer in the past year.

Axiom to Install $5 Million Worth of Energy Storage at Grocery Stores in NYC

Refrigeration Battery helps control energy costs, prevent food spoilage during power outages

September 21, 2016

Owners of grocery stores and other cold storage facilities in parts of Brooklyn and Queens can now receive incentives from Con Edison’s Neighborhood Program for installing Axiom Exergy’s thermal energy storage system.

First UK Supermarket R-449A Installation Shows Energy Saving for Waitrose

Chemours Opteon XP40 provides savings for Devon store

Andrew Gaved

September 19, 2016

Waitrose has recorded a 6.6 percent average energy saving, with as much as 9 percent saved on the high temperature systems, in the first installation of R-449A in a United Kingdom (UK) supermarket.

Plaza Provision Installs Thermal Energy Storage to Cut Energy Costs

The company has saved over $650,000

September 19, 2016

Plaza Provision Co., a leading food distributor in Puerto Rico, has purchased its fourth thermal energy storage (TES) system from Viking Cold Solutions, and where installed, the TES system has reduced energy consumption by over 30 percent.

Supermarket customers don’t care what HVACR contractors have to go through to keep their favorite beverages cold – they just expect the work to be done. Photo courtesy of Zero Zone, Inc.

Navigating the Aisles of Change

While changes keep coming for supermarkets, the HVACR industry keeps answering the call

Ron Rajecki

September 5, 2016

Many supermarkets converted their chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigeration systems to hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) systems only to see HFCs targeted for a phaseout. Now, they’re hearing about natural refrigerants, distributed refrigeration, and cascade systems.

A view of the monitoring station of Danfoss’s Smart Store solution.

Scanning the Supermarket and Restaurant Horizons

HVACR news and advances from two dynamic market sectors

Ron Rajecki

September 5, 2016

There is always plenty of activity taking place on the HVACR side of the supermarket and restaurant industries. Here’s a quick look at eight items of note.

New Supermarket Designed for Solstice N40

Reduced GWP refrigerant is for low- and medium-temperature refrigeration

September 5, 2016

Festival Foods, a Wisconsin-based chain of more than 20 supermarkets, has designed its new Somers, Wisconsin, location with refrigeration equipment from Zero Zone Inc. that is designed to run on Honeywell’s Solstice® N40 (R-448A).