Emerson Climate Technologies has taken a look at HVACR trends in the food service sector and said most attention is focusing on the shortage of technicians, a transition to scroll compressors, integration of food quality and security, and advanced controls.
When the word "food" is in the title of a refrigeration expo, you can bet the focus among exhibitors will be on food safety, combined with promises of better energy savings. Those issues came together at the North American Food Equipment Manufacturers (NAFEM) Expo.
The challenge in dealing with the topic of refrigerants is that they are immersed in a massive array of regulations that span a wide range of governmental bodies from local to international and an equally wide range of agencies.
To answer industry questions, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials make appearances at various functions. One of the most recent was at the Food Marketing Institute Energy and Technical Services Conference.
The complexity of refrigeration technology for supermarkets is a given. The crucial role of service technicians in the equation is becoming more apparent. The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Energy and Technical Services Conference dealt in depth with this issue.
"Be the best you can be" was the theme of a keynote talk by Steve Bradford, manager, Technical Service Advisory Program for International Comfort Products (ICP), to attendees at the 66th annual Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) annual conference.
The 21st Century Report, an ambitious project among those in the industry and government energy agencies, was given an update at the International Congress of Refrigeration.
A lot of things happening throughout the world may change the way technicians service supermarkets. Some of the latest developments were reviewed at the most recent International Congress of Refrigeration in a short course titled "Advances in Supermarket Refrigeration."
If the move away from HCFCs seems to be a bit faster in the bakery sector, there's a good reason for that. That sector came onto the radar screen of the EPA when there was a question about R-22 leakage.
