Besides offering features and benefits to meet an edifice’s HVAC needs, the honorees of The NEWS’ HVAC Commercial Equipment category in the sixth annual Dealer Design Awards ease contractors and technicians’ burden by being easier to install and service.
The battleground of HVAC tonnage served up some middleweight champs in The NEWS’ sixth annual Dealer Design Awards’ HVAC Light Commercial Equipment category.
IAQ technology - the forefront of clean air concerns. Science is making new advances in the field and manufacturers are using these discoveries to improve their product offerings. The NEWS’ Dealer Design Awards’ Indoor Air Quality category uncovered three winners seeking to clear the air.
Many low and medium temperature single-phase compressors require some type of external relay to assist in the starting of its motor. The purpose of this relay is to remove the motor’s start winding, start capacitor, or both, from the circuit once the motor is running.
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned CFC refrigerants, it not only affected the HVACR industry, but many other aspects of society including the U.S. military. But one example of a non-CFC solution for the Air Force came around full circle to benefit HVACR.
Attendance and exhibitor numbers may have been a bit off at the most recent National Restaurant Association (NRA) Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show, but new refrigeration technology seemed to be on the rise.
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. is now entering what company officials described as the “under-served and dormant” test and measurement instrument sector. The target audience is HVACR technicians and electricians, with many units coming in separate models for HVACR or electrical needs, the company said.
The investor-owned utilities (IOUs) in California, along with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the University of California Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center, sponsored a historic HVAC Energy Efficiency Roundtable on May 12-13.
California energy standards regarding refrigeration are expected to become federal mandates in 2010 and already a number of refrigeration equipment manufacturers are drawing attention to products that now meet those standards and mandates. That was evident among many exhibitors at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Restaurant Hotel-Motel Show.
Heatcraft Refrigeration Products opened an additional manufacturing plant next to its current location in Tifton, Ga. The new plant expands the production capabilities of the company’s Tifton facility, adding 310,000 square feet of manufacturing and 8,000 square feet of office space.