When a contractor suggests installing equipment that still uses last year’s refrigerant, you are not just choosing a model year, you are stepping into the middle of a national policy shift on how ...

The refrigerant rules changing around 2025 are often framed as a simple bump in new system prices, but the real story runs through your future repair bills, how long you can keep an older unit alive, ...

Refrigerant reclaimers used to be the red-headed stepchild of the HVAC industry. That’s what Carl Grolle, owner of Golden Refrigerant, told The ACHR NEWS it felt like for decades. Then the HFC ...

The HVACR industry is undergoing another refrigerant transition, as HFCs such as R-410A and R-404A are being phased down in favor of new, lower-GWP refrigerants, such as R-32 and R-454B. Unlike the ...

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed and is submitting for publication in the Federal Register an update to its Refrigerant Management Regulations under Section 608 of the Clean ...

The technology shifts the focus from refrigerant-based systems to hydronics, requiring skills in flow dynamics, pumps, and piping rather than traditional refrigeration techniques Regulatory pressures ...