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Regularly cleaning commercial ice machines is a necessary part of ensuring their continued and safe operation. 

The TU ice machine service kit enables contractors to prepare for thermostatic expansion valve repairs in an ice machine. 

Often, a simple control scheme using a microprocessor can allow manufacturers to use lower starting torque compressors without the use of a hard start kit to operate their ice machines. 

The NEWS honors the 2014 Dealer Design Award winners in the Refrigeration and Ice Machines category.

Some forward-thinking businesses are employing tomorrow's refrigeration technology today. Here are a few examples.

Technicians need to to be aware that ice machine servicing expertise might be just one small part of the technology they could encounter on a single piece of refrigerated equipment. 

Some of the newest electronic technologies were on display at the 2014 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show.

A while ago I took my wife to a bed and breakfast on a lake. It was an older place, but how they (mis-)treated one of the ice machines — which itself appeared to be pretty old — was something else.

Service technicians who work on commercial refrigeration equipment should be aware that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued what it calls the final rule on the “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigeration Equipment.”

The 15 Series ice and water dispensers are a product line extension to the company’s 7 Series.