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Category: Refrigerant Management

  • Calculating Refrigerant Leak Rates – And Why It Matters

    Ask yourself: What if you were required to calculate the leak rate of your HVAC/R appliance every time someone worked on it? Would you know what to do? Have you ever done it? With more than 600 Million LBS of refrigerant added to systems each year, and the average transfer of 30 LBS per transaction,…

  • 3 Reasons You Need to Integrate Your CMMS and Refrigerant Management Software Today

    Refrigerant management software like Trakref is a fantastic tool to oversee refrigeration assets, have the data you need for compliance reporting, and reduce refrigerant emissions from refrigerant usage. Facility managers rely on it to maintain compliance and perform leak inspections, especially to support multi site organizations. Refrigerant management software is a step up from Excel…

  • Why HVAC/R Pros Need Corporate Governance Software

    A business entity that isn’t properly attending to risk management through corporate governance used to be acceptable. It was alright to have business processes that relied on a lot of policies without having enterprise wide subsidiary governance for business conduct.

  • ESG Reporting, Fugitive Emissions & Accountability

    If you’re in an ESG (environmental social and governance) leadership role for business models, either as a consultant or in-house expert, GHG emissions are likely to be a large focus within your business strategy.

  • Sustainability, ESG Reporting, & Your Refrigerant Impact

    At the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the news about our current global warming trajectory and greenhouse gas emissions was fairly dire. We’ve already warmed the planet +1.2°C over pre-industrial averages (as of the summit in 2021).

  • HVACR Management and Refrigerants Tracking

    done. Precision isn’t achievable without a compliance program that has a full understanding of the complex array of regulatory requirements and the technology that is needed.

  • The Importance of ESG Reports

    ESG reports are becoming more standard each year, so building on our trailblazing history of more than 25 years of refrigerant management, Trakref launches the Trakref and Darden Research Initiative for Compliance and Sustainability in partnership with the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

  • Steve Ehrlich’s 47 Year Journey Through HVAC and Refrigerants

    After returning from military service overseas during the Vietnam War, Steve Ehrlich had several choices to make. The year was 1974. Steve was smart, ambitious, and already an extremely experienced technician, having serviced flight instrumentation in various military aircraft. Of all his options before him, Steve certainly was not planning a career path in the…

  • Destruction is a Better Option Than Refrigeration Recycling

    I want to tell you how I came to realize that destruction is a better option than refrigeration recycling for environmental sustainability and a company’s environmental footprint.

  • How Energy Management is Leading ESG Reporting Conversations

    Before the 2010s, investors paid little attention to environmental social and governance (ESG) reporting and sustainability data. The story in the 2020s is very different. Today’s investors are hungry for data on your company’s environmental sustainability impact, labor policies, energy efficiency, board composition, and more. They want to know about your corporate sustainability initiatives and…