IIAR
The Official Magazine of the All-Natural Refrigeration Industry
Welcome to Phoenix and the 2025 IIAR Industrial Refrigeration Conference & Heavy Equipment Expo! I’m excited to welcome you to Phoenix as part of the 47th IIAR conference. It’s hard to believe that our organization recently blew past five decades of work on behalf of this industry! Much of that work happens at our annual […]
Prominent Environmental Attorney and Inspiration Behind the Critically Acclaimed Film Dark Waters, Starring Academy Award-Winning Actor Mark Ruffalo obert Bilott is the tenacious environmental lawyer who became “DuPont’s worst nightmare,” according to The New York Times. The story in his book, Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against Dupont, inspired the […]
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Stephanie Smith Risk Management Professionals, Inc. Consultant Mark Bazis, Jr Refrigeration Consultants, Inc Engineer Miguel Garrido Güntner U.S. LLC Manufacturer Maxime Girot Clauger Manufacturer Todd Jekel University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Michael Lynch United States Cold Storage End User David Blackhurst Star Refrigeration Engineer Glen Heron Tyson Foods Inc. End User Kurt […]
CO2 HANDBOOK Committee Chair: Wayne Borrowman, CIMCO Refrigeration – Developed and maintains the IIAR CO2 handbook, which guides refrigeration practitioners on the theory, design, and practical application of refrigeration and heat pump systems that use carbon dioxide (CO2) as the refrigerant. The handbook addresses subcritical CO2 application, transcritical CO2 applications, and CO2/ammonia cascade system designs. […]
Each year, the IIAR recognizes the authors and presenters of the best technical paper presentations in English and international languages. The IIAR Award for Presentation Excellence, previously IIAR’s “Andy Ammonia Award,” was created to acknowledge the crucial role that education and information-sharing plays within the refrigeration industry, and to provide acknowledgement of the expertise that […]
Exhibit Hall Floorplan ACAIRE ACAIRE is an NGO based in Colombia, which promotes the knowledge and best practices around the application of engineering and technology for HVAC&R and energy districts, through our training portfolio, expo and associative activities. Airfoil Impellers Corporation Cast Aluminum fan blades, machine room exhaust fans, product cooler fans, blast freeze fans, […]
We are the Natural Refrigeration Foundation, the world’s leading resource for evidence-based science to support the most earth-friendly refrigerants, which will drastically reduce greenhouse gases. It’s Cool science. The Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit, education, research and training association dedicated to the natural refrigeration industry. Founded in 2006 by the membership of the International Institute […]