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Customer Service and Food Safety are Most Important Factors for Cold Chain Customers, Survey Finds
If one were to quickly guess which factor in the cold chain process was the most important when it came to large-scale refrigerated storage and transportation, no one could fault you if you said cost. When considering millions upon millions of units that need stored, shipped, and delivered in a
5 Signs Your Refrigeration Might Be Nearing An Expensive Problem
Whether it’s in a walk-in cooler storing cold beverages, a refrigerated storage room for fresh produce, or a biomedical freezer containing sensitive compounds, one fact remains the same: the refrigeration system is the single-most important piece of equipment to your product’s survival. It is a facet of business that is
Contractors and Customers Alike Can’t Live Without Refrigeration Controls and Monitoring
“It’s almost like the check engine light in your car.” This is how Charlie Sternberg, owner of S&S Refrigeration Co. in New Jersey, described the base value of NRM’s monitoring platform to greenHVACR magazine. As a refrigeration technician, any tool that improves his ability to effectively—and efficiently—solve his own clients’
A Clean Energy Twofer: More Jobs and Lower Emissions
Regardless of what one thinks of the impact and scale of climate change, or whether or not fossil fuels have a place as energy sources moving forward, two things are undeniable: clean energy reduces the amount of emissions that go into our atmosphere, and the sector will be providing ample
Walk-in Cooler/Freezer Electric Defrost 101: Cost [Part 2]
Last week, we wrote about why you need electric defrost for your commercial freezer and how it works. Here’s a quick refresher. A defrost system is necessary in walk in freezers that maintain product temperature at or below freezing to prevent build-up of ice around the evaporator. This helps avoid equipment failure and
6 Do-It-Yourself Ways to Reduce Your Commercial HVAC Energy Costs
We focus a lot on commercial refrigeration in this blog and in our daily business, as this is often the area of energy management that can see the greatest gains by adopting more efficient practices. But it’d be foolish to ignore HVAC and lighting as slices of the “energy consumption
Refrigeration Problem of the Week: Short Cycling in a Quick-Serve Restaurant’s Freezer
Short cycling is a common issue that often goes undetected because the system is running, and safe temperatures in the space are still maintained, but it’s excessively running much more than it needs to.
2018 E. Coli Outbreak can be Learning Opportunity for Leafy Greens Industry
The worst E. Coli outbreak in over a decade has affected a widespread swathe of the country—reaching as far as Alaska—but seems to have originated from just one location: Yuma County in southwest Arizona. According to public health officials with the FDA, the outbreak has sickened 197 people in 35