Phasing out refrigerants and chemicals deemed harmful to the environment has been an ongoing issue for refrigeration equipment makers for more than 20 years. Today, the industry is facing the most sweeping, most accelerated and, according to NAFEM, most impossible-to-achieve change ever considered.  A proposed rule announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Aug.…

When we redesigned the magazine at the end of 2012, we added our new department Back Story. Each month, we hit up service technicians—members of the Commercial Food Equipment Service Association—and ask them to share their best (or craziest) service-call stories. They all have tales to tell. These anecdotes make for fun reading, but they…

In this month’s FER Exclusive, "How To Avoid Installation Nightmares," Founding Editor Emeritus Brian Ward interviews industry professionals about what goes wrong during equipment installations and the best ways to minimize problems. To a person, those interviewed said miscommunication between parties was the No. 1 reason projects derail. It’s an age-old complaint, but I had…