Daikin has established priority measures to expand its commercial refrigeration business and capitalize on environmental regulations relating to energy savings and refrigerants.

The new line, MicroDS, is available for low- and medium-temperature merchandisers and is charged with up to 150 grams or just 5.3 ounces of propane — slightly more than a half-cup.

This informative session will feature a special focus on CO₂ technologies, an update on CO₂ standard development, and a live demonstration of a CO₂ transcritical system.

As vice president of sales and customer care, Frank Fuller will develop and execute a commercial strategy to achieve not only sales growth but to expand new business opportunities as well.

Essentially, I noted that changing demographics, new technologies, and evolving regulations may result in wider acceptance of self-contained refrigeration units that utilize propane. Several readers took issue with this, noting that central rack refrigeration systems — which are traditionally used in supermarkets around the U.S. — are not going anywhere and that propane units have too many drawbacks to ever seriously be considered for large-scale use.

In 1919, the Penn brothers co-founded the Penn Electric Machine Company in Des Moines, Iowa. Its first product was the innovative Type S pressure switch, which Albert developed to automatically operate electric motor-driven water pumps.

As vice president of sales & customer care, Keith Funke will lead the development and execution of Nor-Lake’s commercial sales growth and new business opportunities.