One of the greatest strengths of IIAR is our ability to turn out educational and informational resources with the technical rigor you’d expect from a group of engineers that first convened to develop safety standards for their industry and haven’t quit since.

In these days of information overload, our commitment to producing real, vetted resources for our industry – and each other – carries that energy forward. It comes out at our meetings, where I can’t make it down a hallway without hearing a new proposal for a new fact sheet, whitepaper, policy analysis or obscure detail that needs addressing in our ever-evolving suite of standards. Or, if you’re part of one of our many committees, you no doubt experience that energy in the lively discussions and meetings required to transform an idea that started at our annual meeting into a finished product.

What sets us apart from other groups is this unflinching commitment to making our industry the best when it comes to safety and the depth of specialized knowledge that we’re capable of offering to the rest of the world.

That’s why I’m pleased to share an exciting IIAR update – we’re about to unveil an IIAR Resource Site where you can find and track all the many different projects we’ve published in one place. The resource site is also meant to highlight the wealth of technical and informative materials IIAR has developed over the years.

Our goal is simple: to ensure that every member, partner, and stakeholder throughout the world can easily find and use the tools that support their work. Many of our most valuable resources—hosted on IIAR and NRF pages—have historically been difficult to locate. We’re changing that. The redesigned Resource Site will serve as a centralized hub, linking directly to existing and new content.

In addition to our websites core categories of Education (IIAR’s online training classes) and Publications (IIAR’s Standards, handbooks and Guidelines), the resource site will include:

• Informational Papers, including the State of the Industry reports, the updated 2025 IIAR Green Paper, refrigerant fact sheets, and a new PFAS fact sheet—along with future informational sheets and papers as they’re produced.
• Informational Videos, featuring foundational content about IIAR, natural refrigerants, and the NRF, plus new promotional videos focused on CO₂, decarbonization, hydrocarbons, and ammonia.
• Natural Refrigeration Career Center, offering a public-facing job board listing internship and entry level job openings of our members to connect talent with opportunity across our growing sector.
• Natural Refrigeration Directory, offering a public-facing and searchable listing of manufacturers, contractors, engineers, consultants and end users who are experts in the use of natural refrigerants.
• Natural Refrigeration Training Programs, offering a public-facing detailed and searchable listing of training programs available for natural refrigeration. 
• Refrigerant Evaluator Tool, offering a public-facing online tool that will assess and compare all refrigerants, synthetic and natural, by providing information on the refrigerants chemical make-up, GWP, ODP, safety class, flammability, toxicity, combability, thermodynamic properties, relative efficiency & USA EPA SNAP approval.
• Ammonia Refrigeration Global Standards & Regulations, offering a one-stop location to learn which standards and regulations apply for countries throughout the world.
• Magazine Access, with a direct link to our newly rebranded publication, Natural Refrigeration Review—formerly Condenser Magazine.

These updates are more than technical improvements—they’re part of a broader strategy to position IIAR as the go-to source for natural refrigerant facts and information. By streamlining access and expanding visibility, we’re empowering our members to lead with confidence, advocate with clarity, and build with purpose.

If you work on one of our committees, or you contribute to our work by attending the annual conference, by getting involved in the Foundation, or even just by participating in IIAR training or showing up for a webinar on an interesting technical topic, you are participating in our collective work to advance this essential industry.

Thank you for your work, and I look forward to hearing about it the next time I bump into you in a conference hallway!