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Walk-In Refrigeration Unit Controller Offers Remote Monitori
Apr 23, 2014 Chicago -- Master-Bilt announced that its Master Controller, featuring Web2Walk-In software, is now Apple iOS compatible, making remote monitoring and adjustment of walk-ins accessible from any device with an Internet connection including a PC, Mac, smartphone, or tablet. The new Master Controller will debut at the 2014 National Restaurant Show, May 17-20, at Chicago’s McCormick Place...
Final Rule Establishes Refrigerator Testing
Apr 22, 2014 A final rule from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) amends test procedures for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers. The effective date of the rule is May 21, 2014 and manufacturers will be required to use the amendments made in the rule to rate their products starting October 20, 2014. Full details on this rule can be found in the Federal Regis...
Mobile Devices Help Boost Home Automation Interest and Aware
22 April 2014 Port Washington, N.Y. -- Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and their ability to connect wirelessly have helped drive interest and awareness of home automation products and services, according to The NPD Group’s Home Automation Study. The study indicates 88 percent of mobile device owners are aware of home automation devices compared to 78 percent of consumers overall. ...
MiTek Acquires Ellis & Watts Global Industries
22 April 2014 Chesterfield, Mo. -- MiTek Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced that it has acquired Ellis & Watts Global Industries. Ellis & Watts engineers, designs, and fabricates highly customized HVAC and other products sold into the nuclear, military, and other industrial end markets. “By offering highly engineered HVAC and other solutions into a wide range of end...
Keys to Awareness & Visibility for Your HVACR Business
Apr 22, 2014 When you develop your marketing plan, you have to decide what kind of marketing you want to do. First, let’s not confuse marketing with advertising. With advertising, you develop an ad or...
Ingersoll Rand Collaborates with IRI to Develop Sustainabili
Arlington, VA and Davidson, N.C., April 21, 2014 -- Sustainability and new product development are becoming increasingly interrelated as the former gains prominence in today’s business landscape. Organizations are seeking methods for determining how to make products more sustainable as access to resources become constrained. To address this challenge, Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating com...
Final Commercial Refrigeration Rule Published
Apr 21, 2014 A final rule, published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on April 21, revises and reorganizes test procedures for commercial refrigeration equipment (CRE) to clarify terms, procedures, and compliance dates, with an aim of improving repeatability and removing ambiguity from testing. The scope of the category "commercial refrigeration" is quite broad, and some of the clarif...
Cold chain improvements for the export of Ecuadorian product
18/04/2014 On March 11, The Ministers of Foreign Trade, Francisco Rivadeneira and of Interior, Jose Serrano, agreed on improving the conditions in which the anti-narcotics police checks the products at the port of Guayaquil so that they don’t interrupt the cold chain. The Ministers agreed, in a tour that they took of the courtyards of the Narcotics police in the port of Guayaquil, to find the bes...
NYSERDA’s HVAC Business Partners Program Doubled Its 2013 Go
April 17, 2014 Albany, N.Y. -- The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that its HVAC Business Partners program has more than doubled its 2013 project goal for implementing the national ANSI/ASHRAE/ACCA Standard 180 for Quality Maintenance (Standard 180 for QM). The HVAC Business Partners program trains commercial HVAC contractors on how to profit fro...
Daikin Applied offers fan array options for Vision(TM) indo
Multiple fan combinations allow for more design flexibility MINNEAPOLIS -- The world’s most customizable air handlers now offer even more flexibility for new or existing mission critical facilities s...
