Emerson Celebrates and Sponsors World Refrigeration Day 2020

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June 26 is the second annual celebration of World Refrigeration Day. The event, which memorializes the birth date (June 26) of Lord Kelvin for whom the Absolute temperature scale is named, was started last year to raise visibility, awareness and understanding of the significant role that the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump (RACP) sector plays in modern life and society.

This year’s theme, “Cold Chain 4 Life,” aims to make the public, policy makers and end-users aware of technology, food waste/loss, human health and comfort, environment and energy considerations associated with the cold chain. The campaign strives to motivate adoption of best practices to minimize food waste/loss in the supply chain, stimulate wise technology selections and enhance operations to minimize leakage of refrigerants and maximize energy efficiency.

As part of its celebration, we will host a live trivia event on our Copeland™ Facebook page at 2 p.m. EDT / 11 a.m. PDT that day (June 26). The trivia questions will be related to the commercial refrigeration and air conditioning industry, Emerson company history and product knowledge. Participants who answer correctly will have the chance to win Emerson items, including genuine Copeland brand t-shirts and a $100 Amazon.com^® gift card for the grand-prize winner.

On World Refrigeration Day and every day, we are committed to advancing innovation by actively engaging with industry leaders to address the many challenges the industry is facing — including evolving environment-related regulations; climate change awareness; human health and comfort; the growing ubiquity of digital technologies; food safety and quality needs; and the never-ending energy efficiency and operating cost concerns.

By actively participating in organizations such as Air-Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Global Food Cold Chain Council (GFCCC), European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE), and Council for Harmonization of Electrotechnical Standards of the Nations of Americas (CANENA), we play a strategic role in understanding and interpreting the ever-changing landscape of international, national and state-level regulations. Most recently, our experts have been supporting initiatives to explore more globally friendly refrigerants through participation in the AHRI Safe Refrigerant Transition Task Force established in April 2019. The task force was established with the goal of evaluating and in turn enabling safe and reliable use of low-GWP refrigerants. Whether it’s energy efficiency or the transition to lower GWP refrigerants, we are uniquely positioned to help guide and support our customers in overcoming these complexities, not only on World Refrigeration Day, but all year long.

For more information on World Refrigeration Day, visit www.worldrefrigerationday.org.