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Category: Refrigerant Management

  • California’s Hazardous Materials Business Plan

    Are you aware of California’s Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP) reporting requirements for certain refrigerants? It is an initiative for environmental sustainability and corporate sustainability to decrease companies’ environmental footprints.

  • Asset-Centric Approach With Refrigerant Management

    We are now entering the third refrigerant transition in the past thirty years. For those that have an asset-centric approach to refrigerant tracking and management, navigating this journey will prove to be easier, than the ones who don’t.

  • Refrigerant Compliance in 2021: What to Have on Your Radar

    Now that plans for an HFC phase down in the United States have solidified for environmental sustainability, one thing is clear for refrigerant compliance in 2021: Change. Very likely, refrigerant handling requirements for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) will evolve in the near-term at multiple regulatory levels. 

  • HVAC News Roundup – July 2020

    A lot has happened in this month, including an update from the U.S. EPA about enforcement; regulatory developments and changes in California; and new school reopening guidance from ASHRAE. All of these are important to stay on top of for environmental sustainability, corporate sustainability, and decreasing your company’s environmental footprint.

  • SCAQMD Rule 1415 Registration Process Moves Online

    Are you aware of an upcoming and important change to the South Coast AQMD (SCAQMD) Rule 1415 registration process? Facilities with regulated air-conditioning systems pay attention because the SCAQMD Rule 1415 registration process is moving online. This is important for both environmental sustainability and decreasing your company’s environmental footprint.

  • Your Refrigerant Management Program: 10 Questions to Answer

    A refrigerant management program (RMP) ensures efficient maintenance operations; a well-equipped team; environmental sustainability; and compliant outcomes. But do you know what to look for in a refrigerant management program and how to stay compliant with the Environmental Protection Agency requirements? And what should be included in it to decrease your environmental footprint while meeting…

  • HVAC News Roundup – June 2020

    A lot has happened in this month in compliance and environmental sustainability, including a new proposed EPA SNAP rule on A2L refrigerants; world refrigeration day celebrations; and several other policy and compliance developments for decreasing companies’ environmental footprints.

  • Earth Day 2020 – The Refrigerant Management Conundrum

    Buckminster Fuller was an inventor best known for creating the Geodesic Dome, he was a futurist that created things to help mankind and protect the planet, he referred to earth as “Spaceship Earth”.

  • Refrigerant Management: Making R-22 Last

    Trakref launches new end-to-end solution enabling supply chain and end users to track and manage refrigerants.

  • HVAC/R 101: Where Does My Refrigerant Go?

    We enjoy exploring the complexities of HVAC, refrigerant management, refrigerant tracking, legislation, and climate action, but on occasion more basic questions cross our desk. So here is a bit of HVAC/R 101.