Marshall Putman served for four years in the U.S. Navy including plying the inland jungle waterways of Vietnam aboard a minesweeping gunboat. “That’s when I learned about commitment,” he says today. “And I brought that with me” at the time of the formation of Pro-Air Services Inc. in 1995.

The industry’s long held belief that any R-22 equipment manufactured before 2010 could legally be sold, installed, and serviced for years thereafter has run into a bit of confusion with the publication in the Federal Register of two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Notices of Proposed Rulemaking.

The industry’s long held belief that any R-22 equipment manufactured before 2010 could legally be sold, installed, and serviced for years thereafter has run into a bit of confusion with the publication in the Federal Register of two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Notices of Proposed Rulemaking.

To escape all the environmental and government regulation issues I’ve been writing about, my wife and I went to a classical music concert. The main piece of music was a Beethoven symphony; however, the opening work was called “Global Warming.”

“When a customer calls you, don’t think you are too important to call them back.” That willingness to quickly return a customer’s call - be it a call for service or a complaint - has been one reason that Taylor Refrigeration & Air Conditioning of St. Augustine, Fla., has been in business for close to 60 years.

When a typical refrigeration unit is cycling on about eight times every hour and holding temperature, contractors are a pretty happy lot. But what if the same unit only cycles on every two hours or so and still holds temperature?

There is so much change going on in the supermarket sector that it is hard to keep up with it. Refrigeration technology is constantly being either tweaked or totally overhauled.

The market research firm Freedonia Group has just published some predictions regarding global demand for commercial refrigeration equipment and it certainly looks good despite these tough economic times.

Every time we get long doses of unseasonably cold weather, there are those who chuckle and say those who believe in global warming don’t know what they are talking about.

In researching the R-410A project that will occupy a lot of space in The NEWS and its supplements throughout 2009, I was struck by how deep the topic was reaching into our industry.