ASTI brings its ammonia safety training focused on prevention and emergency planning requirements, updates on process safety, and methods of dealing with problems.

In 2020, COVID-19 has, in its own way, presented each of us with challenges and opportunities we could not have foreseen at the beginning of the year. Yet, that does not mean it must be a year in which we forego the experiences we value! Instead, we only must be willing to embrace the opportunities as they are presented to us.

The inaugural Process Heating & Cooling Show — an interactive conference and exposition where executives and engineers from various industries can learn from thought leaders and discover new technologies and trends related to process heating and cooling in manufacturing processes — will launch in 2021.

Endress+Hauser plans to build a 100,000 ft² calibration, repair and training space in Pearland, Texas. Construction is expected to begin in 2019 and be complete by the end of 2020.

Long-time readers of this column likely remember that I am a Wisconsin native, loud and proud. Wisconsin is one of the Rust Belt states, flyover country for those on the coasts. 

Jones County Junior College (JCJC), Ellisville, Miss., will expand its heating and air conditioning program to include ammonia refrigeration training, thanks to a new partnership with Wagner-Meinert LLC. The Ft. Wayne, Ind.-based company alsowill establish a certified RETA testing center to ensure industrial ammonia refrigeration operators/technicians in the region can stay in compliance with OSHA and EPA standards.

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We have been busy over here at RETA HQ planning for this year’s National Conference, taking place September 26-29 in Hershey, Pa. It’s turning into a great program.

Industrial refrigeration education is front and center at the annual meeting of the Refrigerating Engineers & Technicians Association. Show visitors who attend the conference program and refrigeration review course can earn up to 28 PDHs while those attending just the conference program can earn up to 15 PDH. Professional development hours earned at the RETA conference can be applied toward CIRO, CARO, CRES and RAI certification maintenance.

RETA’s two-day Central Florida Ammonia Refrigeration Regional Conference is scheduled for November 3-4 at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Fla.