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Tag: Compliance Reporting

  • 4 Ways to Improve Your ESG Reports with Software

    Every year, hundreds of millions of pounds of refrigerant gas go unreported. The consequences of such oversight are substantial. Not only do untracked gas leaks result in extreme damage to the atmosphere and the climate, but they also lead to billions of dollars in losses, damaging your bottom line.

  • Compliance Alert: COVID-19 and Business Continuity at Trakref

    Everything in the world has changed in only a few short months. Only a few weeks ago we were all planning our spring maintenance and getting ready to finish up the filings for GreenChill and submitting reports to EPA for Chronically leaky systems.

  • COVID-19: Business Continuity at Trakref

    Helping our customers, clients and their support staff to use technology to accomplish compliance and environmental sustainability success is our core purpose here at Trakref.

  • 5 Things HVAC/R Teams Need to Know

    2019 was the year we all started to see HVAC/R regulations for environmental sustainability come into focus, with changes at the federal and state level impacting both maintenance requirements and record keeping.  What did not change in 2019 was the employment situation, there are simply not enough new people coming into the HVAC/R trades to…

  • SF6 Geometry, SF6 Structure, and the Secret to SF6 Management

    Sulfur hexafluoride…if you try to say it 10 times fast it will tie your tongue in knots. It’s the most famous of all the F-gases, and for any pop culture fans it’s similar to being the most famous murder victim in any of the Friday the 13th movies.

  • Your New Mobile App Trakref®️ V3: Meet the Developer!

    Did you hear about the new mobile app? Trakref® V3 is available now! It’s the latest evolution of our user-friendly refrigerant management tool, enabling technicians in the field to more easily and efficiently enter service records and coordinate with system owners for environmental sustainability.

  • CARB Requirements Gathering Input

    The California Air Resources Board (CARB) as part of the California Code of Regulations is working on creating new requirements intended to help the state achieve the emissions reduction goals for air pollution of SB1383. They are specifically aimed at reducing high global warming potential (GWP) HFCs in stationary refrigeration and air conditioning equipment for…

  • State of Climate Change Programs Across the US

    The USA is like a great big franchise. The states are the franchisees and the Federal Government is the franchisor. In return for their participation, the states (aka Franchisees) get to pick and choose from a menu of services. Some states take The Franchise exactly as it is, and some tweak things to accommodate their…

  • Reclaiming US leadership in the HVAC/R Refrigerant Management Industry

    It was accepted that governance or control was going to be led by the US and no one doubted it. We had the tech, manpower and expertise needed to lead environmental sustainability initiatives and decreasing our environmental footprint. We also had big businesses working on their own corporate sustainability initiatives. Other countries didn’t line up…

  • 8 Signs You’ve Outgrown Excel

    It’s time to evaluate your compliance management system for refrigerant tracking: do you have one? If you don’t, are you still using Microsoft Excel? Many do-it-yourselfers have built complex elaborate and amazing spreadsheets; we get to see them all the time. Their can-do spirit tells them: “I can just do all of this in Excel.”…