As 2025 approaches, businesses involved in refrigerant management need to prepare for a wave of regulatory changes. These changes are set to significantly impact operations, making it essential for companies to stay informed and proactive. Here’s a snapshot of the key developments expected in the...
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If you manage refrigeration and air conditioning assets, then you're probably already familiar with the challenges presented by leaks of refrigerant gasses, whose repeated phase transitions enable cooling. In addition to the maintenance and uptime impacts, leaks of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) can be thousands of times more...
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An Overview of Recent Developments: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently rolled out a comprehensive trilogy of regulatory amendments. Given the breadth of these changes, we've chosen to break down the updates into more digestible segments. Part 1: The 15 LB rule, Trakref's initial analysis, published...
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The Impact of EU's CSRD Mandates Regulation The European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) represents a major turning point in the global trend towards more sustainable and transparent business operations. This directive broadens the scope of sustainability reporting beyond traditional financial disclosures, compelling companies to provide...
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On October 6th, the EPA introduced new rules as part of the AIM Act, expanding on our last webinar that discussed updates to maintenance practices and the new 15 LB+ rulemaking. Today, we shift gears and focus on the recycling and handling of HFCs used...
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October 2023 represents a significant milestone for all HVAC/R, EHS&S, and Sustainability professionals and business owners, building managers, commercial property companies, investment funds, and shareholders responsible for owning, operating, or servicing any A.C., Refrigeration systems for any use from cooling data to food, or keeping...
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Revolutionizing the HVAC/R Compliance Industry with Enhanced Speed, Improved Workflows, and Modern Navigation Trakref has just launched our revolutionary cloud-based EHS Software Solution The TR4 EHS Software solution offers a new approach to guiding the workforce toward your goals and capturing the information needed to measure real-time...
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New York State has a new Senate bill, S6030, which brings up several issues with climate accounting and Global Warming Potential. As noted here, the bill "purports to align New York’s emission accounting methodology with a federal methodology by shifting the measurement of GHG’s (greenhouse...
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If you own any building or business in the United States, you are now host to a new set of responsibilities -- because that unit likely contains high GWP refrigerants, including HFC refrigerants and maybe even some HCFCs and possible chlorofluorocarbons. For the past 25 years,...
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Accelerating Solutions, Expanding Reach, and Saving Money Through Collaborative Problem Solving On April 3, 2023, Fexa LLC completed the acquisition of Trakref, bringing together two leading companies in the facilities management space. Here's the official press release. Why this move was made This merger was driven by the...
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