Podcasts about R22

Stephen Grootes speaks to Candice Wilson, EY South Africa’s Cybersecurity Leader, about one of the most pressing threats facing the country’s digital future: cyber insecurity. With South Africa estimated to have lost over R22 billion to cybercrime in recent years, the conversation centres on what has become the country’s digital Achilles' heel — and what can be done to fix it. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape.    Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 and 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc The Money Show is brought to you by Absa     Follow us on social media   702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702   CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tariff wars and gold at an all-time high have rattled financial markets. This could push the rand to R22.25 to the dollar and bitcoin to $65 000, says Shiven Moodley, macro strategist at 80eight. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

‘The working class are people earning between R8 000 and R22 000, where we've got about 14.8 million people' – Motlatsi Mkalala from Standard Bank.

In this episode of the HVAC Know It All Podcast, host Gary McCreadie is joined by Kevin Gill, Director of Technical Projects & Business Development – Refrigeration of The Master Group for part one of their discussion on the evolving landscape of refrigerants in the North American market. With the A2L refrigerant transition looming on the horizon, Kevin offers a deep dive into the key aspects of these regulatory changes, their impact on the HVAC industry, and how contractors can adapt. The episode touches on the environmental and regulatory pressures driving these changes, such as the Montreal Protocol and Kigali Amendment, and how these international agreements are shaping refrigerant choices and equipment standards. Kevin Gill brings a wealth of experience to the conversation, with expertise in refrigerants, HVAC systems, and global climate policies. As a passionate advocate for environmental sustainability, Kevin discusses both the technical and practical aspects of transitioning to lower-GWP refrigerants, helping technicians understand what's at stake and how to future-proof their practices. Expect to Learn: Refrigerant Evolution: A brief history of refrigerants, from the use of R12 and R22 to the present-day shift toward A2L and low-GWP refrigerants. Global Warming Potential (GWP): Understanding how GWP plays a key role in refrigerant regulation and the future of HVAC systems. Transition to A2L: What the move to A2L refrigerants means for the industry and the tools required for safe handling. Impact of Montreal Protocol and Kigali Amendment: How these global agreements have shaped current refrigerant legislation and phase-out schedules. Practical Tips: How HVAC professionals can adapt to the transition, with insights into new tools, system modifications, and legislation deadlines. Episode Highlights: [00:33] - Guest Introduction [01:50] - Podcast Introduction [03:41] - The Evolution of Refrigerants [05:25] - Environmental Impact and Legislation [08:55] - Challenges of Transitioning from R22 [17:04] - Understanding Enforcement Dates [25:46] - Focus on Canadian Legislation [29:31] - Missing Clarity in Refrigeration Legislation This episode is kindly sponsored by: Cool Air Products Master Cintas Supply House Connect with The Master Group: The Master Group LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/themastergroup/ The Master Group Website: www.master.ca Follow the Host: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gary-mccreadie-38217a77/ Website: www.hvacknowitall.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/hvacknowitall/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/hvacknowitall1/

Join Jim Klauck, also known as Check A Pro Joe, on the Check A Pro Radio Show as he delves into the world of home improvement with Sal from Service All Stars. In this episode, they tackle a common question: If you replace your outdoor air conditioning unit, do you need to replace the indoor unit as well? Sal provides insights into the compatibility issues between older R22 refrigerant systems and the newer R410A systems. He explains why upgrading both the indoor and outdoor units simultaneously is often the best decision, especially with the advancements in HVAC technology over the past decade. Discover the benefits of variable speed systems, which offer improved comfort, energy efficiency, and quieter operation compared to traditional single-stage systems. Sal likens this upgrade to owning a Tesla—not just for energy savings, but for the enhanced comfort and convenience. As they discuss the importance of maintaining a comfortable home environment, Checker Pro Joe and Sal emphasize the value of investing in modern HVAC systems. If your system is over ten years old, it might be time to consider an upgrade. Tune in to learn more about the latest in HVAC technology and how it can transform your living space.   Please contact us: www.serviceallstars.net 

Max talks with John Kinard of AeroLuxe Aviation, based in Nashville, which operates a fleet of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, including R44 and R22 helicopters. Following Hurricane Helene, the company became involved in relief efforts after seeing the devastation in North Carolina. John contacted the Ashville, NC EOC, and was told that help wasn't needed. Nonetheless, AeroLux decided to fly three R44 helicopters to the disaster area to see how them might assist. The helicopters operated out of a base at a Harley-Davidson dealership in Asheville, which had been converted into a command center. Immediately after arriving, the team began delivering supplies to isolated communities cut off by flooding and landslides. They navigated challenging mountainous terrain, landing directly in confined areas to deliver food, water, and medical supplies. The team also saw firsthand the extensive damage, including multimillion-dollar homes washed away by floods. Despite hot, difficult conditions, AeroLuxe flew daily missions, carrying food and supplies. The company spent five days flying relief missions, and John emphasized the satisfaction of helping people in need. AeroLuxe is already looking at ways they may help this week with Hurricane Milton in Florida. If you're getting value from this show, please support the show via PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or Patreon. Support the Show by buying a Lightspeed ANR Headsets Max has been using only Lightspeed headsets for nearly 25 years! I love their tradeup program that let's you trade in an older Lightspeed headset for a newer model. Start with one of the links below, and Lightspeed will pay a referral fee to support Aviation News Talk. Lightspeed Delta Zulu Headset $1199 Lightspeed Zulu 3 Headset $899Lightspeed Sierra Headset $699 My Review on the Lightspeed Delta Zulu Send us your feedback or comments via email If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, let listeners hear you ask the question, by recording your listener question using your phone. Mentioned on the Show AeroLuxe Aviation Operation Airdrop Hurricane Helene Relief Operation Airdrop Facebook Page AERObridge websiteAERObridge Facebook Page Hope on Short Final North Carolina Airports Association NBAA Humanitarian Emergency Response Operator database GoCajunNavy.orgBuy Max Trescott's G1000 Book Call 800-247-6553 Buy Max Trescott's G3000 Book Call 800-247-6553 Free Index to the first 282 episodes of Aviation New Talk So You Want To Learn to Fly or Buy a Cirrus seminars Online Version of the Seminar Coming Soon – Register for Notification Check out our recommended ADS-B receivers, and order one for yourself. Yes, we'll make a couple of dollars if you do. Get the Free Aviation News Talk app for iOS or Android. Check out Max's Online Courses: G1000 VFR, G1000 IFR, and Flying WAAS & GPS Approaches. Find them all at: https://www.pilotlearning.com/ Social Media Like Aviation News Talk podcast on Facebook Follow Max on Instagram Follow Max on Twitter Listen to all Aviation News Talk podcasts on YouTube or YouTube Premium "Go Around" song used by permission of Ken Dravis; you can buy his music at kendravis.com If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.

Gauteng Economic Development MEC, Lebogang Maile, says the provincial government has paid three-point-eight billion rand in its first instalment to service the debt owed to roads agency, SANRAL for the construction of the now defunct, E-tolls. Speaking to members of the media in Johannesburg earlier this morning, Maile said Gauteng was is expected to fork out 30 per cent of the debt, with the remaining 70 per cent to be paid by national government. Sanral initially pumped R22. 4-billion and added a further R3.74-billion into building the e-tolls. Bongi Zwane spoke to John Sukazi, Head of Communications at Gauteng Treasury... 

Slegs vier munisipaliteite in KwaZulu-Natal het 'n skoon oudit gekry. Munisipaliteite se skuld aan waterrade beloop meer as R22-miljard. Goeienuus wink steeds vir motoriste by die brandstofpomp.

Standard Bank het vandag tussentydse winssyfers aangkondig. Die groep het R22 miljard se wins verdien, en die direksie het 'n tussentydse dividend van R7.44 per aandeel verklaar. Die uitvoerende hoof, Sim Tshabalala gesels oor die resultate. Volg RSG Geldsake op Twitter

R21 Review vs Canberra Raiders - Fogarty's Kicking, Tallis Duncan, Jye Gray Heart. Chaps and Big Les chat about possible changes leading into R22 #rabbitohs

Breadline Africa has been a key player in providing educational opportunities for children since 1993. The organisation's approach involves converting shipping containers into functional educational spaces. A critical aspect of their work is addressing the safety hazards associated with pit latrines in rural schools. Marion Wagner, the CEO of Breadline Africa told Biznews in an interview that Breadline has managed to raise R22 million to address the issue of pit toilets that have caused the deaths of young children in South Africa. By the end of July this year, Breadline would have completed installing flush and dry toilets at 24 schools, providing 550 toilet facilities to 11,000 children. Wagner said the scale of the problem was much larger than the 1000 schools they anticipated. They have found that 35000 schools in the rural areas of Limpopo, the Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal still have pit toilets and that there are schools that have absolutely no toilet facilities at all. The charity plans to address period poverty, a major problem in South Africa as a next big project.

Sunnyboy Jiyane lost his wife and his income during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now it seems that he lost most of his hearing, too. The Ear Institute will assist Sunnyboy with one of his hearing aids, the moulds and fitting, as well as the initial test free of charge. That's a sponsorship of R37 500! The Good Morning Angels Fund will also assist Sunnyboy with the cost of the second hearing aid at R22,000!

The beleaguered Road Accident Fund (RAF) is losing an estimated R3 billion a year to opportunistic loss of income claims from people who suffered only minor injuries in a motor vehicle accident. In this interview with BizNews, actuary and damages expert Gregory Whittaker shares his research for the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA). He says statistics for the financial year ending 31 March 2021 show that loss of income settlements totalled R18.4 billion - of which about 14% was paid to those with non-serious injuries - while in the financial year ending 31 March 2023, the RAF paid R22 billion in loss of income claims. Whittaker lists his recommendations to prevent such excessive compensation - and thus also address the worsening financial situation of the RAF where the deficit had grown, by the end of March 2022, to R344.8 billion from R3.8 billion at the end of the 1994 financial year.

This audio is brought to you by Wearcheck, your condition monitoring specialist. Platinum remains in fundamental deficit, Northam CEO Paul Dunne emphasised at the company's presentation on Friday, which reported a strong performance from all group operations in the six months to December 31. "In mining terms, it's a slow-burning fuse. Ultimately, we will see a price response to this picture," said Dunne, as he displayed a visual diagram indicating the downward outlook for platinum supply. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.) He outlined how palladium-dominant mines are often combined with significant nickel production and the weakening nickel price is further eroding profitability. Previously forecast increases in palladium supply were dependent on projects that are now unlikely to be pursued and flat-to-waning supply is expected over the medium term. Rhodium is expected to follow the depletion profile of South Africa's upper group two (UG2) mines, leading potentially to significant under supply of what is a critical metal that is poised to return to deficit "quite quickly". The current price environment may last for some time and this combined with general higher inflation will pressurise the sector and it is clear that the current market conditions cannot sustain supply, Dunne said as he displayed a margin chart during the presentation covered by Mining Weekly. "Not all orebodies are created equal and, in this market, we would suggest that South African UG2, with its higher loading of platinum, iridium, ruthenium, rhodium and chrome, is strategically well-positioned for a future-facing market. "At Northam, we have a UG2-dominat resource base, which is very well capitalised, and this places us in a strong position. "Once again, safe production, efficient project execution, efficient mining, and a very firm grip on the cheque book, will ensure that we mine at the best possible cost," said the CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Northam, which declared R1-a-share interim dividend on the back of its cash and cash equivalents of R11.8-billion and available undrawn banking facilities of R11-billion collectively amounting to R22.8-billion. At the outset, Dunne drew attention to the picture of iridium chloride that featured in its presentation. Iridium chloride is critical to the production of green hydrogen. "Iridium is one of the rarest elements on the planet and because of the many colours of its various compounds, was named after Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow. "Iridium, together with ruthenium, were historically considered the minor metals but their importance is growing and together these contributed over 11% of Northam's R15-billion revenue for this six-month reporting period. NEW SHAFT The equipping of the new Zondereinde 3 Shaft has been completed to 500 m. Full equipping at 1 400 m and commissioning of the shaft, along with the 3A ventilation shaft, is scheduled for May 2025, at which time a combination of greatly reduced travel time for employees and improved hydropower and backfill pressure on the face, will significantly derisk mining. "The pace at which we've been able to progress the 3 Shaft project we believe is impressive, given that we only stated piloting in September 2029 and we expect commissioning four-and-a-half-years later than that at a fraction of the cost of a conventionally developed shaft. "The addition of 3 Shaft will allow us to mine this exceptional orebody well into the future," Dunne highlighted. Cost control measures in the period kept the increase in group unit cash cost per equivalent refined four element (4E) ounce at 6.7% amid a 10.6% increase in equivalent refined 4E ounce metal from its own operations to 434 977 oz in the six-month period, when production reached record levels.

All the best calls from this week's shows. Jim answers questions about R22 coolant, heat pump svs. strip heat, foamed attics & ventilation, reduced sink water flow, post-tension cables and more.

Klein, leicht und im Vergleich zu anderen Modellen günstig: Das ist das Konzept des Helikopters R22 des US-Unternehmens Robinson. Am 27. Dezember 1994 stürzte ein solcher Kleinhelikopter mitten in Zürich auf ein Wohnhaus. Dies führte in der Schweiz zu Diskussionen um die Sicherheit des R22.

A R47-billion guarantee facility, effective immediately, has been extended to struggling State-owned freight logistics group Transnet in support of its recovery plan and to meet its immediate debt obligations. The guarantee was announced following concurrence between Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and follows a high-level meeting between government and business earlier in the week at which business leaders argued for immediate financial support for Transnet to address its port congestion crisis and to arrest the collapse in the rail service. In a statement, the National Treasury said that Transnet would drawdown an initial amount of R22.8-billion to deal with immediate liquidity matters such as settling maturity debt. It added that no equity injection had been considered given that the Budget for 2023/24 was "closed" and expressed confidence that the guarantee facility, alongside swift implementation of the Transnet Recovery Plan, would be sufficient to resolve the State-owned company's challenges. When announcing the Transnet Recovery Plan, Transnet chairperson Andile Sangqu said that the success of the plan would hinge on shareholder support. Media reports indicated that Transnet has requested relief covering R61-billion of its R130-billion debt, as well as a R47-billion equity injection. Godongwana reacted coolly to the request, saying in a Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement media briefing that further engagements were required before support could be extended, and expressed unhappiness that Transnet had seemingly simply presented the National Treasury with an "invoice". He also stressed that any support to State-owned companies would need to be governed by strict conditions, pointing to those that had accompanied recent support extended to Eskom and Denel. In the statement, the National Treasury said a "Guarantee Framework Agreement between the National Treasury, Department of Public Enterprises, and Transnet will include strict guarantee conditions that will be continuously reviewed and amended when deemed necessary". It added that any further drawdowns would be subject to Transnet meeting those conditions. "A Guarantee Framework Agreement must be concluded between National Treasury, the Department of Public Enterprises and Transnet within 14 days of the activation of the guarantee to ensure that any fiscal risks are mitigated and that the conditions of the facility are fully agreed to by all parties. "In addition, National Treasury will continue to work with Transnet to pursue other initiatives to revive its operations and financial viability," the statement reads. Godongwana also emphasised that government continued to pursue deep-running, broader reforms of the company and the logistics sector as a whole, adding that "without a comprehensive reform of the sector, rather than that of a single entity, we risk being faced with similar challenges in the future". However, he also expressed confidence that the reforms needed to put Transnet back on track could be achieved if the entity committed to meeting the strict conditionalities attached to the guarantee and if its speedily implemented the reforms informed by the National Logistics Crisis Committee. Transnet, the National Treasury added, would explore further the divestment of noncore assets, a reduction of its current cost structure, as well as alternative funding models for infrastructure and maintenance requirements. "The latter includes but is not limited to project finance, third-party access, concessions, and joint ventures." Gordhan highlighted the fact that Transnet remained critical to the South African economy. "A well-functioning logistics company is particularly important given the geographical distribution of economic activity in the country, our reliance on commodity and other exports, as well as our distance from key export markets."

A R47-billion guarantee facility, effective immediately, has been extended to struggling State-owned freight logistics group Transnet in support of its recovery plan and to meet its immediate debt obligations. The guarantee was announced following concurrence between Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and follows a high-level meeting between government and business earlier in the week at which business leaders argued for immediate financial support for Transnet to address its port congestion crisis and to arrest the collapse in the rail service. In a statement, the National Treasury said that Transnet would drawdown an initial amount of R22.8-billion to deal with immediate liquidity matters such as settling maturity debt. It added that no equity injection had been considered given that the Budget for 2023/24 was "closed" and expressed confidence that the guarantee facility, alongside swift implementation of the Transnet Recovery Plan, would be sufficient to resolve the State-owned company's challenges. When announcing the Transnet Recovery Plan, Transnet chairperson Andile Sangqu said that the success of the plan would hinge on shareholder support. Media reports indicated that Transnet has requested relief covering R61-billion of its R130-billion debt, as well as a R47-billion equity injection. Godongwana reacted coolly to the request, saying in a Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement media briefing that further engagements were required before support could be extended, and expressed unhappiness that Transnet had seemingly simply presented the National Treasury with an "invoice". He also stressed that any support to State-owned companies would need to be governed by strict conditions, pointing to those that had accompanied recent support extended to Eskom and Denel. In the statement, the National Treasury said a "Guarantee Framework Agreement between the National Treasury, Department of Public Enterprises, and Transnet will include strict guarantee conditions that will be continuously reviewed and amended when deemed necessary". It added that any further drawdowns would be subject to Transnet meeting those conditions. "A Guarantee Framework Agreement must be concluded between National Treasury, the Department of Public Enterprises and Transnet within 14 days of the activation of the guarantee to ensure that any fiscal risks are mitigated and that the conditions of the facility are fully agreed to by all parties. "In addition, National Treasury will continue to work with Transnet to pursue other initiatives to revive its operations and financial viability," the statement reads. Godongwana also emphasised that government continued to pursue deep-running, broader reforms of the company and the logistics sector as a whole, adding that "without a comprehensive reform of the sector, rather than that of a single entity, we risk being faced with similar challenges in the future". However, he also expressed confidence that the reforms needed to put Transnet back on track could be achieved if the entity committed to meeting the strict conditionalities attached to the guarantee and if its speedily implemented the reforms informed by the National Logistics Crisis Committee. Transnet, the National Treasury added, would explore further the divestment of noncore assets, a reduction of its current cost structure, as well as alternative funding models for infrastructure and maintenance requirements. "The latter includes but is not limited to project finance, third-party access, concessions, and joint ventures." Gordhan highlighted the fact that Transnet remained critical to the South African economy. "A well-functioning logistics company is particularly important given the geographical distribution of economic activity in the country, our reliance on commodity and other exports, as well as our distance from key export markets."

From the Henssler Financial Studio this is your news minute on the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast presented by Engineered Solutions of Georgia. Today is Monday August 14th and I'm Brian GiffinTwo men from Powder Springs, Robert Rose (52) and Kevin Ronte Rose (29), have been accused of stealing a significant amount of scrap metal and copper from Legacy Mechanical Services. The incident took place at the business's location on Roberts Boulevard in Kennesaw on July 26. According to arrest warrants issued by Cobb County Police Department, the suspects entered the property and dismantled HVAC units located in the back lot. They managed to pilfer a substantial haul, including 220 pounds of copper scrap, 225 pounds of motor/compressor scrap from six AC units, 200 pounds of steel scrap, 26 pounds of recyclable refrigerant R22, and 250 pounds of motor/compressor scrap from additional units like exhaust fans. Both individuals are facing charges of three counts of theft by taking, each exceeding $1,500 in value. They were apprehended on August 2 and are now in custody at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center. Robert Rose's bail was set at $20,000, while Kevin Ronte Rose was released on a $15,000 bond. For more on this story visit mdjonline.com. For the Daily Journal Podcast I'm Brian Giffinwww.henssler.com www.esogrepair.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Enter our NRL Bundy Mixer League! Get in the mix by joining with this league code 72IRWB3A and be in the game that blends. Killer team name essential! https://mixer.nrl.com/share/league/ey... BUNDY MIXER IS BACK Join Mackenzie, Cord, Mick & Chip as they dive into the big talking points from this Tuesday's massive Round 23 on Team List Tuesday. Finally we answer all your questions and review our Teams performance in R22. Best of luck to everyone this weekend on NRL Fantasy and Bundy Mixer. Follow along on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/allout.nrlf... Follow along on TikTok at https://www.tiktok.com/@UCq7MIfVu51mc... All Out NBA Fantasy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allout.nba/ All Out NBA Fantasy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allout_nba All Out Club Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allout.club/ All Out Club TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alloutclub

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Welcome to the latest episode of the Helicopter Podcast! In this week's show, your host Halsey is joined by a special guest, Mike Underwood, the owner of SVT Aviation Maintenance. Mike is an experienced helicopter A&P (mechanic) and a longtime friend of Halsey, making this episode an engaging conversation between two industry experts.The focus of this episode revolves around the maintenance of Robinson Helicopters, specifically the popular models R22, R44, and R66. Mike shares his extensive knowledge and expertise in this area, providing valuable insights for helicopter enthusiasts and aspiring mechanics.The episode starts with discussing Mike's background, giving listeners a glimpse into his journey within the aviation industry. From there, the conversation takes a deep dive into becoming an aviation mechanic (A&P), shedding light on the necessary steps, qualifications, and experiences required for aspiring professionals.Halsey and Mike explore a wide range of Robinson Helicopter-specific maintenance topics as the conversation progresses. Listeners will gain a comprehensive understanding of the intricacies involved in maintaining these helicopters, including best practices, common challenges, and specific considerations for the R22, R44, and R66 models.Whether you're a helicopter enthusiast, an aspiring A&P mechanic, or simply curious about the world of helicopter maintenance, this episode is packed with invaluable information. Halsey and Mike's dynamic chemistry and wealth of knowledge make for a fascinating discussion that will leave you informed and inspired.Please tune in to this episode of the Helicopter Podcast to hear firsthand from Mike Underwood, owner of SVT Aviation Maintenance, as he shares his expertise and insights into the world of Robinson Helicopter maintenance. Get ready for an enlightening and educational experience that's not to be missed!

Check out the YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/PucbyvIO3p8 This week we had Michael Wieshaar from Cimco Refrigeration who was live at a CO2 transcritical ice rink.  Michael walked us through the CO2 chiller plant step by step to give us a understanding on how this CO2 ice rink works.  Michael has been involved with this system from the start and has developed his CO2 skill very quickly by putting the work in.     Topics: Why it is important to read the equipment and component manuals you work on for a successful install Why working with your customers to build their confidence is so important. Retrofitting an R22 ice rink to a CO2 Transcritical ice rink 3 major components: Primary Plant CO2 Chiller loop Cold Glycol Loop Warm Glycol Loop Reviewing the sequence of operation of the CO2 rack system Discuss how the oil management works on the Chiller Plant How quickly they pulled the slab temp down with CO2  Over coming system issues through proper troubleshooting Learn More about Cimco - https://www.cimcorefrigeration.com/ Follow Michael Wieshaar - https://www.instagram.com/chilling.perspective/ Follow Refrigeration Mentor - https://www.instagram.com/refrigerationmentor/ ============================================================== Refrigeration Mentor Website: www.refrigerationmentor.com All Access to Refrigeration Mentor Content:  Learn More Upcoming Compressor Masterclass: Learn More Upcoming Supermarket Learning Program: Learn More Upcoming CO2 Learning Program: Learn More  Free System & Compressor Troubleshooting Guide Subscribe to the Refrigeration Mentors video newsletter and get your Free Compressor Guide

In this live podcast, we discuss the current R410A phase-down schedule and a review of the properties of the two via low GWP refrigerants R32 and R454B. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/InsightPartnersHVACTV Insight Partners Website: www.insightusa.com Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-mormino View current line card: https://www.insightusa.com/manufacturers Connect to Insight Partners on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/insightusa Tony Mormino at Insight Partners: tmormino@insightusa.com We talk about the status of the current EPA refrigerant regulations, including the EPA's NOPR (notice of proposed rule), the critical milestones for R410A equipment manufacturing, and the current R410A phase downtime schedule. We also show the properties of the two via R410A alternatives, R32 and R454B. In particular, we show the meaning of A2L refrigerants as explained in ASHRAE 34-2022, Designation and Safety Classification of Refrigerants, which is a shorthand way of naming refrigerants and assigning safety classifications based on toxicity and flammability data. We delve into the benefits and drawbacks of each low GWP refrigerant, exploring factors such as its global warming potential, energy efficiency, and flammability. Refrigerants play a critical role in the functioning of air conditioning and refrigeration systems. They are responsible for transferring heat from the indoor or outdoor space to the refrigeration unit, allowing for temperature control. However, the impact of refrigerants on the environment is a growing concern. Many commonly used refrigerants have high global warming potential (GWP), contributing to climate change. In recent years, there has been a push to develop and adopt refrigerants with lower GWP, leading to the emergence of new refrigerants with unique properties. Two such refrigerants are R32 and R454B. R32 is a pure hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant, while R454B is a blend of HFC and hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) refrigerants. While these refrigerants offer lower GWP, they have unique properties that distinguish them from each other. Both have similar performance to R410A. Both have a similar performance to each other. Both are classified as A2L, mildly flammable refrigerants. Both have a lower GWP than R410A. R32 is a single-component refrigerant. It is a mildly flammable A2L refrigerant, meaning it can ignite in the presence of an ignition source but only under certain conditions. R32 has a low GWP of 675, making it an attractive option for environmentally conscious companies. R454B is a zeotropic blend of HFC and HFO refrigerants, 69% R32 and 31% R1234yf. It is a mildly flammable A2L refrigerant with a low GWP of 466. R454B was developed as a potential replacement for high-GWP refrigerants like R410A. For those of us who have been around awhile, you may be very familiar with R22 and even R12. Past Transitions were driven by Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP).

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Eskom CFO Calib Cassim told lawmakers on Tuesday that the State-owned utility had spent R18-billion on diesel for its current financial year-to-date, which began in April last year, and that it would probably need to spend another R4-billion until the end of March, raising the overall diesel spend for the year to R22-billion. The utility was continuing to operate its diesel-fuelled open-cycle gas turbines (OCGTs) despite having announced in November that it was no longer in a financial position to do so. That said, outgoing CEO André de Ruyter told the Standing Committee on Public Accounts that, had it not been for its financial constraints, Eskom would have burnt more diesel to offset the coal fleet's poor performance and limit loadshedding stages. However, chairperson Mpho Makwana revealed that an agreement had been reached with the National Energy Crisis Committee on January 23 regarding a diesel funding model, the details of which were being finalised. “While this diesel funding model is being put in place, we are funding the diesel from internal savings and reallocations from other priorities,” De Ruyter told the committee members. “So, our CFO has had to do some very nifty footwork in order to release the cash from other sources to enable us to buy as much diesel as we can responsibly procure. [But] of course there's a limit . . . and, therefore, we have had to conserve our reserves to responsible levels.” He also provided insight into some of the initiatives that Eskom had proposed to government to assist it in buying diesel as cost-effectively as possible. One of these included an application to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy for a wholesale licence to enable it to purchase diesel at the level of the Basic Fuel Price, which could have yielded billions in savings. The application had been rejected, however, while the South African Revenue Service had, to date, rebuffed its attempts to secure tax rebates to which Eskom felt it was entitled. Cassim said expenditure on diesel to operate its OCGTs at Ankerlig and Gourikwa had already exceeded the budget for the year by more than R10-billion and he indicated that there were also likely to be further shortfalls in 2023/24 and 2024/25. Eskom had applied to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for revenue to operate its OCGT plants at a load factor of 12% for the coming two financial years, which would have translated to allowable revenue of about R17-billion a year for diesel alone. In approving the recent hikes of 18.65% for 2023/24 and 12.74% for 2024/25, Nersa said Eskom should operate the plants at a load factor of 6%, which would translate to a diesel budget of about R8.5-billion for the coming two financial years. Cassim said the diesel budget shortfall would, thus, probably be about R16-billion over the coming two financial years, depending on actual oil prices, final diesel volumes and coal-fleet performance. De Ruyter refused to be drawn on the debate as to whether Eskom should forgo the tariff increase in light of cost-of-living pressures; one that had intensified in light of various legal actions against the hikes and President Cyril Ramaphosa's call for the board to find ways to limit the increases. “I won't comment on cost-reflective tariffs – that being a particularly sensitive and litigious topic at this point in time – save to say that there are essentially two sources of enabling Eskom to recover its costs: either from those who consume electricity or from the taxpayer by way of transfers from the National Treasury. “And this is a choice that those who take these decisions need to make,” he said.

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Chantelle Theunissen het ‘n ruk gelede ‘n epos aan ons gestuur en gevra vir hulp om uit die gat te kom. Haar man is die enigste broodwinner, met ‘n salaris van R5 800 per maand. Net hulle huur is R3 500 per maand. Chantelle het haar werk verloor tydens die pandemie, en na vele probeerslae en die uitstuur van haar CV, het sy ‘n week gelede ‘n werk in ‘n kroeg gekry – waarvoor sy R22 per uur betaal word. Sy sê in haar brief, ‘die dag wat ek nie nodig het om te bekommer wat my kinders vanaand gaan eet nie, sal ek voel ek het gewen'. Hulle gat het nog dieper geword…'n Week gelede, terwyl sy by die werk was, het haar man, Braam, selfdood gepleeg. Chantelle is in sak en as…Haar vooruitsig is dor, en sy weet nie hoe sy na haar drie kinders gaan omsien nie. Janike benodig dringend ‘n bril, Damon is ‘n woelige twee-jarige, en die een-jarige Emily het ‘n groot behoefte aan voedsame kos. Chantelle se grootste bekommernis is nie haar eie welstand nie, maar die van haar kinders. Tans in hulle koskaste is twee uie, en mieliemeel. Die vier-jarige Janike se grootste behoefte is ‘koekies'! Terwyl Chantelle nog rou en wonder oor haar man se selfdood, probeer sy kop bo water hou, en vrede vind met dit wat gebeur het. Daar is nie geld vir ‘n roudiens nie, maar fokus sy nou op antwoorde wanneer haar kinders vra waar hulle pappa is.

Chantelle Theunissen het ‘n ruk gelede ‘n epos aan ons gestuur en gevra vir hulp om uit die gat te kom. Haar man is die enigste broodwinner, met ‘n salaris van R5 800 per maand. Net hulle huur is R3 500 per maand. Chantelle het haar werk verloor tydens die pandemie, en na vele probeerslae en die uitstuur van haar CV, het sy ‘n week gelede ‘n werk in ‘n kroeg gekry – waarvoor sy R22 per uur betaal word. Sy sê in haar brief, ‘die dag wat ek nie nodig het om te bekommer wat my kinders vanaand gaan eet nie, sal ek voel ek het gewen'. Hulle gat het nog dieper geword…'n Week gelede, terwyl sy by die werk was, het haar man, Braam, selfdood gepleeg. Chantelle is in sak en as…Haar vooruitsig is dor, en sy weet nie hoe sy na haar drie kinders gaan omsien nie. Janike benodig dringend ‘n bril, Damon is ‘n woelige twee-jarige, en die een-jarige Emily het ‘n groot behoefte aan voedsame kos. Chantelle se grootste bekommernis is nie haar eie welstand nie, maar die van haar kinders. Tans in hulle koskaste is twee uie, en mieliemeel. Die vier-jarige Janike se grootste behoefte is ‘koekies'! Terwyl Chantelle nog rou en wonder oor haar man se selfdood, probeer sy kop bo water hou, en vrede vind met dit wat gebeur het. Daar is nie geld vir ‘n roudiens nie, maar fokus sy nou op antwoorde wanneer haar kinders vra waar hulle pappa is.

Today we have returning guest Benoit Rodier from Cimco Refrigeration.  Benoit is an expert in CO2 refrigeration and shares a ton of valuable knowledge with us.  In this episode,  we're gonna dive into how to design a direct transcritical CO2 refrigeration system and explore more about indirect and direct CO2 systems. Get your pen and paper out because there is a ton of great information throughout this episode. Here are the things you'll learn: The differences between indirect, direct, and direct CO2 systems Glycol vs Brine vs CO2 Why does temperature change affect ice quality with an indirect floor NH3 vs R22 vs CO2 as a direct system Why CO2 is the more efficient for a direct system when building a global solution approach The advantages of new designs without having to build trenches for ice rink applications Shell and tube heat exchanger vs plate & frame heat exchanger Ice rink slab construction for indirect vs direct  Why so many Olympic and world records were broken at the 2022 Beijing Olympics   About Our Guest Benoit Rodier is the Director of Business Development at Cimco Refrigeration. Ben has been involved in industrial refrigeration for more than 25 years.  Until today, Ben is driven by a passion for evolving, doing something new, and developing a new strategy and new ways of doing things in an industry of 150 years.   Connect with Benoit LinkedIn:  Benoit Rodier ================================================ Would you like to have enough CO2 knowledge to work confidently on Transcritical Systems? ENROLL NOW in this intensive 4-Week CO2 Refrigeration Program with Refrigeration Mentor   All Access to Refrigeration Mentor Content:  Learn More Upcoming Compressor Masterclass: Learn More Upcoming Supermarket Learning Program: Learn More Free System & Compressor Troubleshooting Guide Subscribe to the Refrigeration Mentors video newsletter and get your Free Compressor Guide Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/refrigerationmentor Connect with the Refrigeration Mentor IG: @RefrigerationMentor

The City of Cape Town will this month start construction of two new MyCiTi bus depots. The R340-million project forms part of the roll-out of the MyCiTi service to Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, Claremont and Wynberg. It is estimated that 145 buses will be operating from each one of the depots, making it 290 buses in total. However, this number may increase over time, depending on future demand for the service, City of Cape Town Urban Mobility MMC Rob Quintas tells Engineering News Online. “The roll-out of the service to Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha will be undertaken in phases, as infrastructure becomes available and the necessary operating contracts are put in place,” he notes. “The first buses, although not on dedicated red busways, are expected to operate by mid-2025, if all goes as planned and if there are no delays, as part of the earlier operational milestone dates servicing the Nyanga/Central Business District route and the Wynberg/Claremont to Khayelitsha/Mitchells Plain route.” The two new bus depots will be built on a 15 ha piece of land on the corner of Mew Way and Spine road, situated between Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha. The first construction work will be visible by mid-August. “The city's expenditure on the roll-out of the MyCiTi service to the south east is the biggest financial investment in public transport by any metro city to date,” says City of Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis. “With the expansion of the MyCiTi service, we will be bringing more MyCiTi routes to Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha to connect commuters with Claremont and Wynberg. “This is a mammoth undertaking and we are doing it in phases,” says Hill-Lewis. “Residents from these areas will see new infrastructure being built in the coming 36 months, be it the widening of roads, MyCiTi stations and stops, and depots needed to operate the service. “I am proud to say that the new bus depots will be state-of-the-art facilities, designed to use our scarce and limited resources to maximum benefit,” notes Hill-Lewis. The depot buildings will be orientated and shaped in response to the sun's direction, while it will also utilise saw-tooth roofs to channel reflective light into the interior to minimise the need for artificial light. Motion sensors will be linked to all internal lighting to keep electricity use to a minimum. The orientation of the buildings will also limit the need for air conditioning, making the buildings more energy efficient. “As for water, we estimate that up to 80% of the water to be used at the bus washing facility will be recycled,” explains Hill-Lewis. “We will harvest rain water from the roofs, and install water-wise toilets with water flow control.” Sustainable urban drainage systems in the form of permeable paving have also been incorporated at the large bus staging areas to allow for the replenishment of the underground water table. Local Benefits Quintas notes that local residents and subcontractors from the surrounding communities are set to benefit from the 32-month-long depot construction projects, through temporary employment opportunities and contracts. “Temporary employment and training opportunities to the value of at least R22-million will be available to local jobseekers. “Also, the contract between the city and the construction company stipulates that local subcontractors should be contracted to supply goods and services to the value of R40.8-million. “Thus, our local communities will have the opportunity to earn an income while this construction project is ongoing, and hopefully this injection will give them a foothold in the market,” says Quintas. The bus depots are set to provide a secure site where buses can be held while not operating; office administration facilities for the bus operating companies; facilities for drivers to rest and eat between shifts; as well as the infrastructure required for maintenance, refuelling and washing.

COUCH – SHARKBOY UPDATE Earlier this week I suggested that sports minister Nathi Mthethwa should dip into his R22 million flagpole fund and spend some of the money on rewarding Banyana Banyana. Well yesterday a Cape Talk listener had a different suggestion for the minister about where some funds could be put to good use – in helping a former sporting hero who has fallen on desperate times. Now we've told you before about the ongoing efforts to fundraiser for the Hassiem family, and I want to get a quick update today. Among the many people who have been trying to help are Cape Town's open water swimmers. Shoneé Cornelissen is the chairperson of the Cape Long Distance Swimming AssociationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MP & Shadow minister of Sports, arts and culture Tshepo Mhlongo discusses the possibility of Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa resuming work on the R22 million monumental flag project and whether the government has taken the public outcry into account.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trade compliance body the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) should be empowered to conduct verification of products and services that have been designated under localisation regulations to ensure that South Africa gains the expected benefits of localisation, international trade consulting practice XA International Trade Advisors head of research Dr Clive Vinti said during a webinar on July 19. Since the development of the initial local procurement accords and regulations in 2011 and more recently in the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan, South Africa has identified local procurement as a primary policy to achieve industrial development in the country through the use of designation as one of the levers, he pointed out. In the initial Local Procurement Accords in 2011 and 2012, government committed to consult with businesses and industries on identifying products and services that could potentially be designated. Further, government also committed, as early as 2012, to measure the impact of designation on the relative competitiveness of designated products and its impact on job creation yearly. However, the Industrial Policy Action Plan is clear, and notes that there are no stringent legal or administrative measures to deal with noncompliance with localisation regulations and designations, and government is too uncoordinated, fragmented and institutionally weak to adequately monitor local content, Vinti said. The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), in presentations to Parliament, has allocated R22-million for verification processes and the DTIC verified 74% of tenders in terms of localisation value, but only verified 10% of the total number of tenders in terms of localisation regulations. "It is clear there is a huge gap in terms of verification of local content compliance. There have been instances where companies have falsified local content declarations," Vinti said. Additionally, there are administrative justice challenges with current designation processes, as businesses are not aware when a product is being considered for designation, and only a National Treasury secular notice is sent out when a product or service is designated. It is also not clear what information and criteria were used to assess the viability of a product or service, and there are no review reports of the decisions, he noted. These challenges can be overcome by leveraging Itac and its expertise in verification in terms of trade policies and international treaty compliance. "We believe, as designation is significant, there must be a specific set of regulations for local content designation as a trade policy, and it must be administered similarly to other trade policies and regulations, such as anti-dumping measures," Vinti recommended. He said Itac was the most qualified body to administer local content designation and can ensure administrative justice in terms of fairness and lawfulness, as well as rationality by producing investigation reports. It is important to have complete transparency of the process of designating products, as there are cost impacts arising from designation, Vinti noted. A report by capital markets research and consulting firm Intellidex, commissioned by business organisations Business Unity South Africa and Business Leadership South Africa, showed that, if local content regulations were pushed through over the short term without due consideration for their impact, this would push prices of these products up by up to 20%. Comparably, a European Union study on the impact of renewable energy equipment localisation policies in South Africa found that prices in the renewable energy sector could increase by up to 10%, Vinti highlighted. The recent 2017 Preferential Procurement Policy Framework regulations have been challenged in court, but the declaration of invalidity of the regulations has been temporarily suspended. There are draft regulations expected this year, but i...

Haai! And welcome back (finally) to the show. We are so happy to be back. This week we have an extra long, jam-packed episode to make up for our absence ;). We chat about AKA's terrible Twitter plea to Elon to help with loadshedding, South African celebs turning into politicians, the government's plan to erect a R22 million flag (like what??) and Sam ends off the pod with Springbok players ratings (we love him for his honesty). It's chaos, but like we always say – it's KEYS babaaay! Enjoy. If you love KETS please RATE us here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast... Find more KETS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kidseatoast/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kidseatoast?l... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0jfvdNk... Any problemos: Contact: samuel@kets.co.za #KETS #comedypodcast #southafrica ‘Kids Eat Toast Sometimes' with Samuel Holmes and Chloë Melville is a South African comedy podcast that brings you a biweekly dose of dopamine and humour. Every Tuesday, Sam and Chloë bring you 'KETS' in which they put a comedic twist on current events, whilst keeping things playful. Sometimes they are joined by celebrity guests, friends and up-and-comers – laughs are guaranteed.

Continuing blackouts, the rising cost of living, the Zondo Report implicating his party, South Africa's tacit support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the rising tide of xenophobia in the country and plans to build a R22-million flag - these are some current topics MPs might want to question President Cyril Ramaphosa on. However - in contravention of the National Assembly's rules - they will not have the opportunity to do so this term. Rule 140(1) of the National Assembly states: "Questions to the President must be - (a) scheduled in accordance with Rule 210 for a question day at least once per quarter during session time within the annual programme." With only two weeks remaining in the current term, and no date allotted to a presidential question session, the National Assembly Programming Committee on Thursday morning decided to instead invite Ramaphosa for an additional question session in the third term. The third term will only start on 15 August. Democratic Alliance (DA) deputy chief whip Siviwe Gwarube recently wrote to Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to ask her about scheduling the required question session for this term. She wrote: "I firmly believe that it is of the utmost importance that members of the NA [National Assembly] are afforded regular opportunities to engage with President Ramaphosa on a range of urgent matters of national and international importance. "Moreover, it is imperative that President Ramaphosa should set the example as the head of the executive that the government is indeed serious about fulfilling their obligations of being held accountable to the Assembly by ensuring that he attends to his parliamentary duties." Chief Whips Forum discussed this letter when it met on Wednesday, behind closed doors, as is the norm for this body. At Thursday's meeting, DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone asked if the question session had been scheduled. Mapisa-Nqakula referred to Gwarube's letter. House chairperson Grace Boroto and African National Congress (ANC) MP and parliamentary councillor to Deputy President David Mabuza, Hope Papo, were unimpressed by how the DA raised the matter. ANC MP and Ramaphosa's parliamentary councillor Gerhard Koornhof said that NAPC and the Chief Whips Forum had agreed to the proposed programme since 24 March. Programming whip and ANC MP Mina Lesoma presented the programme, which had Mabuza answering questions on 8 June, and the presidency's budget vote, which will be tabled by Ramaphosa, on the 9 June, with Ramaphosa responding to the debate the following day. "That week, two days, the president will be appearing before the house," Lesoma said. "We totally agree and prescribe to the rules, particularly National Assembly Rule 140, which does direct that the president must appear in the house." She said Ramaphosa would answer questions in the next term, but if he said he was available now for a question session this term, it would be accommodated. "However, we are not going to dictate to the president when he is going to appear before the House after he had indicated to us that his diary doesn't necessarily allow him, given that he will be appearing this month, or this quarter twice, because of the compliance matters in terms of the budget votes that needs to be processed and approved," she said. Rule 140 required that the president answer questions in the House, not just "appear" in the House, which several opposition MPs were quick to point out. Gwarube said the fact that Ramaphosa would be delivering his budget vote speech did not negate the requirement that he answers questions in the House. She said the question sessions had to be built into every single term - it was part of the National Assembly's oversight, and a part of the president's responsibility to Parliament. Freedom Front Plus chief whip Corné Mulder said the rules were clear that the president must avail himself to answer questions. He suggested that they either extend the current term by a week to allow a question ...

The Northern Territory has a new Minister for Agribusiness. A man has appeared in Katherine court, accused of stealing a R22 helicopter.

The Sport, Arts and Culture Department this week made a sudden and dramatic U-TURN when it announced that it will review its proposed flag project worth R22-million.  This comes after South Africans voiced their frustration regarding the amount proposed to be spent and the cause. The 100 metre flag pole was meant to be erected at Freedom Park in Pretoria in a move that was supposed to promote social cohesion and tourism. Minister Nathi Mthethwa's critics have called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire him. The president has since instructed the minister to cancel the project.  We spoke to Sibongile Mngoma, Opera singer and activist, and Dr Unathi Henama, tourism academic at the Tshwane University of Technology

The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture courted controversy when it announced plans to spend R22-million to build a 100m flag pole.

  Clement is joined by the Deputy Director General for Heritage Promotion and Preservation from the Department of Arts and Culture, Vusithemba Ndima to talk about the R22 million spending to erect a 100 metre high flag in Freedom Park in Pretoria.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was reported that the Department of Sports, Arts, and Culture will spend R22-million on a 100-meter flag.

Today's Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Gabriel Crouse and Nicholas Lorimer. The participants discuss the plan by the government to erect a 100 m high flag pole for R22 million, the dropping of charges against Mark Boucher by Cricket SA and the Filipino election. Subscribe on Google Podcasts · Subscribe on Apple Podcasts · Subscribe on Spotify

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There have been mixed reactions to the release of the declarations of donations made to the country's political parties during the third quarter of the 2021/22 financial year. The African National Congress topped the list with donations amounting to over R22-million, followed by the Democratic Alliance, with donations amounting to more than R12.5-million. The latest political party funding disclosure report has been released by the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa and revealed that eleven political parties declared donations totaling R46-million. Communications Officer at My Vote Counts, Sheilan Clarke

Investigations into the irregular R150-million Digital Vibes contract have so far yielded little results as only R12-million has been repaid by those who benefitted illegally. According to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), approximately R22-million is contained in several bank accounts resulting from cash flows from the Digital Vibes Nedbank account. On Tuesday, SIU head advocate Andy Mothibi and his senior management presented their investigations into the procurement of Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) and other related matters to Parliament's finance watchdog Scopa. Mothibi told the committee that on 17 June 2021, the Special Tribunal granted the SIU an interim preservation order or interdict against Digital Vibes and 11 others for just over R22-million. "In terms of the interim order, the SIU had to file the review application on or before 29 July 2021. The SIU submitted and filed its review application to the Special Tribunal against Digital Vibes and 29 others to review and set aside the two contracts that were awarded by the national Department of Health (NDoH) to Digital Vibes in respect of the NHI media campaign and the Covid-19 media campaign, and to recover the full value (approximately R150-million) paid out under such unlawful and invalid contract," Mothibi said in his presentation. He said thus far, the SIU had received R12 179 429.90 from or on behalf of some of the respondents. Close associates The health department initially contracted Digital Vibes for the National Health Insurance (NHI) campaign in 2019. Former health minister Zweli Mkhize allegedly pressured officials to appoint the company owned by his close associates Tahera Mather and Naadhira Mitha. According to the SIU, Mkhize approved two budget applications for Digital Vibes for NHI communication amounting to R132-million. On 20 January 2020, an amount of R46 939 550 was approved 52 days after the Digital Vibes service-level agreement (SLA) was signed on 29 November 2019. On 16 June 2020, R85 502 500 was approved for NHI communication work (from 6 March 2020, Digital Vibes only delivered Covid-19 communication services). This amount was approved 199 days after Digital Vibes' SLA was signed on 29 November 2019. The SIU determined from the Tender Evaluation Committee (TEC) report, containing the combined scores of all the Bid Evaluation Committee (BEC) members, that one BEC member's score was altered for the second bidder from "3" to "2". This resulted in the overall score of the second bidder being 59.2%. If the score was not changed, the second bidder would have "qualified for functionality". "The end result was that the second bidder failed to meet the required 60% for functionality, disqualifying them from advancing through to the next stage of the tender process. Digital Vibes quoted R141-million, and the second bidder quoted R69-million. It should be noted that Digital Vibes was R72-million (104%) more expensive than the second bidder," Mothibi's presentation read.

Forrest wanted to operate machinery since he was young.  While working in a spider excavator on a ski lift he fell in love with the idea of flying helicopters as a blackhawk was setting poles.  He immediately went to an airport and found someone with an R22 and started asking questions to get started.  After quickly running out of money Forrest was stuck and needed a new plan.  Eventually starting his own company with a logging truck he was still toying with the idea of how to begin his dream of a helicopter career.  He got the idea eventually to sell his business and use the money to go to flight school.  His path is anything but traditional and a great lesson in tenacity and staying motivated.  With that motivation and drive he was able to secure a job as an ag pilot after finishing school despite it being in the middle of the Covid pandemic.  Forrest's story is inspiring and motivating.  If you have the will and are willing to work hard, anything is possible. If you enjoy the show and would like to support it please consider joining our Patreon, I have created one tier and you will receive an exclusive episode each month which will be a "solo" show with Dan, an Aloft with Dan sticker, and a shoutout on my next show. https://www.patreon.com/AloftwithdanAs always please send any feedback to me at dandoepker@gmail.com or DM me on instagram @aloftwithdan★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Marcus & Brice are joined by SCC Patreon & BBL cricketer Josh Lalor to discuss this week's key topics: best replacements for Andrew Brayshaw, approaching luxury trades - upgrading under performers vs trading in an extra premium, and what to do with Shai Bolton. Click here to support the team, BE a Patreon! ROUND 22 QUESTIONS

Thanks so much for tuning into the Pilot Briefing Podcast for the week of May 17, 2021. In this episode you will learn more about: AOPA’s fight for airport transparency wages on, AOPA opposes $1,000 'climate fee' for Massachusetts landings, pipeline aerial patrols stepped up as fuel crisis eases, Tucker's Oracle Challenger III arrives at the Smithsonian, and a new virtual reality training device for R22 certified.  

This week for the end of Season 2, I bumped into Nda Ngulube. Nda is the co-founder of Pineapple Insurance, which is a peer to peer insurance platform that has disrupted the insurance industry. Pineapple has been consistently recognised at the MTN App of the year awards, is one of 12 Disrupt Africa Start ups to watch, in the Insuretech top 100 globally, wait there’s more, this is on the backdrop of receiving R22.5million in a US start up competition back in 2019. · In this episode we chat on how they got their first 100 customers. · how they built they MVP, funding and how they went about paying developers· Why they chose the insurance industry and how they went about selecting their target audience. If you think this episode could benefit anyone in the start-up community or even someone who is thinking of starting a business, please share it with them, also if you enjoy this episode like I did, give us a shout out by commenting and giving us a review from wherever you are listening. This brings us to the end of season 2, the last 2 years have been nothing short of incredible, thank you for your support, feedback and thank you to all my guest that have blessed me with their presence. Until we meet again in Season 3. Continue to light up the dark.

JSE-listed engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts (M&R) is “holding on” to its South African-aligned business unit that focuses on power, industrial and water despite the fact that its contribution to the group’s R54.2-billion order book has slumped to less than one percent, or only R400-million. By contrast, M&R’s energy, resources and infrastructure platform, which is headquartered in Australia, but also has global activities, reported a record order book of R34.4-billion at the end of June, which helped lift M&R’s overall order book to its highest level in 15 years. The group’s mining platform, meanwhile, had a backlog of nearly R19.4-billion, down from the R22.8-billion backlog reported in June last year. The sub-Saharan Africa portion of the group’s mining order book helped lift the region’s overall contribution to 24%, with the balance of the backlog associated with projects in Australasia, North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Orders attributable to the power, industrial and water platform, meanwhile, have been shrinking as work related to the giant Medupi and Kusile coal power stations has tapered in recent years. CEO Henry Laas says questions continue to be asked as to why the group, which has been restructured into a specialised, multinational engineering and construction group and which sold its South African building and construction unit in 2018, continues to retain its power, industrial and water platform, which operates exclusively in the Southern African market. “My standard answer is that we will hold on to this business for as long as it doesn’t cost us too much money, purely because of the opportunity that we believe exists in South Africa if we can get to a point that there is investment happening again.” Laas believes there is particular opportunity in the water sector, where billions of rand needs to be spent to repair and expand the country’s water infrastructure. Likewise, large investments are required across generation, transmission and distribution to address the country’s power crisis. “In the short-term, however, the only real opportunity that we see is in the overland transmission and distribution sector and you will recall that we have acquired, in the past year, a company called Optipower, which provides this type of service. “There is quite a big value of work that is out on tender from Eskom that hasn’t been adjudicated yet, but we believe we are well positioned to secure a sizeable portion of that.” In the medium term, M&R is also positioning itself to participate in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) developments unfolding in northern Mozambique. Despite serious security concerns, a Total-led consortium is moving ahead with a $20-billion project to develop the Golfinho and Atum gasfields and to build a two-train liquefaction plant with a yearly capacity of 13.1-million tons of LNG. The project is scheduled to enter production by 2024. “The work we are positioning ourselves for is not going to impact our business before our 2022 financial year,” Laas reports. M&R estimates its near-term project pipeline in South Africa at R9.8-billion, which remains modest relative to pipelines of R66.4-billion and R45.1-billion across its energy, resources and infrastructure and its mining platforms respectively. “Nevertheless, we are hopeful that the decision by government to invest in infrastructure as a means of reigniting the South African economy will materialise and that that will present opportunity for this platform,” Laas says. “Unfortunately, there is limited investment happening in South Africa as we speak, so we do expect that there will be a bit of a dry season maybe for the next 6 to 12 months due to a lack of project opportunity. “That is reflected in the platform’s order book which declined to R400-million from R900-million in 2019. When you compare that to the other two platforms, it really is just a drop in the ocean.”

Die gemiddelde salaris wat in die formele sektor verdien word is R22 387 per maand, maar dit was voor die Covid-19 pandemie en inperking almal swaar getref het.

Day 242 CWK Fly the closer aircraft and make that training count! Welcome to day 242 Coffee with Kenny! Answering a question and giving advice today for Terry that emailed me about which aircraft to train in and if he should train closer to home or train in a different aircraft that is farther away. I say fly the closer one, in his situation is an R44. You're going to save money by staying closer and be less stressed driving farther for the R22, it may be a bit more money per hour but it's still better than the money spent on the road!

#198 struggling to hover at 10.3 hours Welcome to day 198 Coffee with Kenny! Doing a little sunset video tonight. I'm going to answer a couple of questions today from HOGS members. He wanted some tips on hovering in an R22. So 10 hours in, it's ok that you're struggling, just work on getting that cyclic down and get in the cockpit for some alone time and just get comfortable when not flying with all the controls. As you go along with your hours it is going to get easier and you will get better.

R22 vs R44 or other for training... | Welcome Career Prospects | Beware Naysayers! It doesn't matter what career you choose in life, no opportunity comes easily! We're gonna go out in the yard today in the golf cart and talk about planning a helicopter landing in my yard! You've been asking, so I'm going to plan it! First though, I am going to read a question from a viewer, and we will discuss that together. So, watch the video, and leave your questions and comments below! Thanks for you support!

Enstrom Transition from Robinson R-22 Day 3! Our last day with HOGS member Ray from Colorado! He has been doing great transitioning to the Enstrom! He purchased one from Heli Expo 2018 that you can see from our video in day 1 with Ray. What a great time we have had having him here, and just a great guy in general! Be sure to leave your questions and comments below!

Enstrom Transition from Robinson R-22 Day 2! Continuing with Ray today, our Enstrom transition guy! Let's see how his first flight went from yesterday! It was a little windy, but not to bad, and Ray has his rating, but hadn't flown in many years! So, I let him tell the story of his first Enstrom flight today! Leave us your questions and comments below, and stay tuned for Day 3 with Ray tomorrow!

Enstrom Transition From R-22 this week for HOGS Member Day 156 We have a member with us today visiting for some Enstrom training! He will be transitioning from an R-22. So we talk about some of the differences including the trim. What a great guy, and fun time we had while he was here! He did an amazing job! Check out the video and leave us your questions and comments below!

We discuss converting an old R22 system to R410A and the correct steps to take with Phil Valpey on this Torrice Tech Talk.

It's fair to say that squirrels should not be in the house. But today Jason and Jeff start the show with two stories about how they dealt with this critters in their attic and walls. This sets off a chain reaction of listeners telling their most horrid tales of squirrels and other creatures in their humble abode. Also Timmy McClendon from A/C Remedies joins the show to talk about the R22 refrigerant phase out, that took effect January 1, 2020. Let's work! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode we speak to Jed and Nate from Bluon about their R22 replacment TdX 20 (R458A). XOi Technologies http://www.xoi.io/hvac-know-it-all-demo/. Housecall Pro https://www.housecallpro.com/hvacknowitall. Navac http://www.xoi.io/hvac-know-it-all-demo/. Testo https://www.testo.com/en-US/testo-465/p/0563-0465. Cool Air Products https://www.coolairproducts.net/. Refrigeration Technologies https://www.refrigtech.com/

On this episode I discuss randomly, static electricity when charging through a manifold, R22 replacement plans, and high limit switch propaganda. Save 8% at https://www.trutechtools.com/ with promo code knowitall. XOi Technologies http://www.xoi.io/hvac-know-it-all-demo/. Refrigeration Technologies https://www.refrigtech.com/. Bluon https://www.bluonenergy.com/. Cool Air Products https://www.coolairproducts.net/

Sandu Băbășan e unul dintre cei mai dinamici antreprenori tech din Cluj. A pornit primul business în timpul facultății, apoi în 2009 a devenit partener în MindMagnet, un business de software development. Treptat a început să se concentreze pe produse proprii, iar mai apoi să vândă complet agenția. În 2015 fondat Blugento, o platformă care ajută antreprenorii să își creeze foarte ușor propriul magazin online. Blugento a crescut spectaculos în ultimii ani, atrăgând în 2019 o investiție de 1 milion de Euro de la fondul de investiții polonez R22. Am atins cu Sandu urmatoarele subiecte:trecerea de la zona de prestări de servicii la crearea de produsedespre primele produse pe care le-a dezvoltat, unul din ele fiind Cash Control, o aplicație de management a finanțelor personaledespre piața de e-commerce din Româniacum îți faci strategia de pricing a produsuluice poți să faci dacă ești antreprenor la început de drumde ce e mai bine să folosești pentru e-commerce o tehnologie cumpărată cu licență, decât să construiești un shop de la zeroce este Blugento și cum ajută antreprenorii care vor să își deschidă un magazin onlinela ce trebuie să ai grijă când îți lansezi un magazin onlinede la cine a atras prima investiție in Blugento și cum s-a comparat experiența cu investitia primită de la un VCcum a atras investiția de 1 milion de Euro de la fondul polonez R22de ce au ales un fond de investiții din Polonia vs. unul din Româniacât dureaza sa finalizezi o astfel de investițiecum abordează Blugento extinderea internaționalăexperiența de a fi start-up din Clujce trebuie să facă un start-up ca să atragă investitori internaționalidespre work-life balance

In January 2020 R22 will not be manufactered anymore and you might be faced with an expensive problem if your HVAC system is older than 2010.  Listen to this podcast episode by Charlotte  home inspector Preston Sandlin  of Home Inspection Carolina to find out what your options are if you have an older AC system built proir to 2010 that runs on R-22.  If you have an older system and it breaks down or leaks you have a coulple of options but they may be rather expensive.  If you need a home inspection Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, or Asheville NC Call Home Inspection Carolina today 704-542-6575.

All the best calls from this week's shows - September 14 & 15, 2019. Jim answers caller questions about: Tips for building a new pool Replacing old damaged Mexican brick Replacing shower curtain with door Locating AC condensation line Finding the reason for sheet wall cracks Choosing the right additional insulation Replacing AC system because it uses R22 coolant and more!

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There are a lot of ads and news articles clamining that homeowners are in trouble and the R22 is becoming illegal. Is that true?

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FLISP is a Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Program for income earners of R3 500p/m to R22 000p/m to assist with First Time Homeownership.

I caught up with an old co worker, Daryl Bird. He wanted to talk about his experience with a Vogt ice machine he works on. We also have a short discussion on R22 replacements and DOA equipment. Save 8% on your tool purchase at https://www.trutechtools.com with promo code knowitall. Save on Testo with this preferred pricing link. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOC8oQB97trj6XKDWRylM2ILFlnVjYG1GnTT2lRWT8-K4weQ/viewform Visit https://www.hvacknowitall.com for articles and tips. Check out the HVAC Know It All YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-MsPg9zbyneDX2qurAqoNQ/videos Testo https://www.testo.com/en-US/ Navac https://navacglobal.com/ Yellow Jacket https://yellowjacket.com/ Cool Air Products http://www.coolairproducts.net/ Refrigeration Technologies https://www.refrigtech.com/ Housecall Pro https://www.housecallpro.com/hvacknowitall

All the best calls from this week's shows - February 16 & 17, 2018. Jim addresses: Materials for a retaining wall Removing mold from shower grout Dropped sidewalks - raise or repair Adding propane to an electric house Fixing a tub p-trap leak The future of R22 air conditioning coolant + more!

All the best calls from this week's shows - February 9 & 10, 2019. Jim answers questions about: Watering around your slab Bad smell when HVAC system kicks on Draining off your gutter system Pros & cons of solar screens Phasing out of R22 coolant for AC systems White dust accumulation on concrete Fungus on outdoor decking and more

Have you heard about R22. No, not R2D2. It's called R22 and it's commonly known as freon. It's going to be banned in the United States in a very short period of time. That means you're going to be replacing your unit. Today we talk about when that deadline is and what you can do today to be proactive and not get into debt over this switch. Questions about real estate? Call me. I'd love to turn your questions into a podcast. Just call at 619-818-2992 CA DRE #01295699 CA DRE #01295699 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chris-spade/support

Zack talks about the Mars Azure Digi Motor's specs and applications. Brent Ridley talks about why he doesn't like R22 retrofit refrigerants.

Михаил Башкиров, senior frontend developer в компании NonDutch, в гостях у Андрея Смирнова из Frontend Weekend. Хочешь поддержать Frontend Weekend, переходи на http://frontendweekend.ml ;) - Чем конкретно сейчас занимаешься в компании NonDutch? 00:47 - Как и когда пришел в разработку и почему frontend? 01:54 - Почему в своё время было принято решение переехать в Нидерланды? 06:25 - Какие есть значимые отличия жизни в России и в Голландии? 10:04 - Исчерпал ли себя уже телеграм-канал о переезде в Нидерланды? 13:38 - Насколько дорого и сложно найти жильё в Голландии? 16:41 - Комфортно ли приезжему погрузиться в культуру передвижения на велосипедах? 19:30 - Как влился в подкаст RadioJS? (Мишина версия создания проекта) R22:31 - Как развивался и преобразовывался подкаст с течением времени? 25:51 - Выпуск, записанный в самых ужасных условиях 28:24 - Почему ушел из проекта и какие были варианты продолжения? 31:37 - Зачем под путешествия использовать отдельные телеграм-чаты? 34:32 - Какие советы можно дать тем, кто хочет тоже переехать? 38:19 - Почему изменил прическу после переезда? 43:54 - Кем бы хотел быть, если бы не стал разработчиком? 44:52 - React, Angular, Vue или Ember? 46:05 - Какая справедливая зарплата для разработчика в Нидерландах? 47:08 - Готовим вместе с frontend-разработчиком 49:14 - Совет от Миши 50:45 Ссылки по теме: 1) Тот самый новогодний выпуск RadioJS – https://radiojs.ru/2014/12/happy-new-year 2) Телеграм-канал про путешествие в Исландию – http://telegram.me/iceland2017 3) Frontend Weekend Patreon – https://patreon.com/frontendweekend

Михаил Башкиров, senior frontend developer в компании NonDutch, в гостях у Андрея Смирнова из Frontend Weekend. Хочешь поддержать Frontend Weekend, переходи на http://frontendweekend.ml ;) - Чем конкретно сейчас занимаешься в компании NonDutch? 00:47 - Как и когда пришел в разработку и почему frontend? 01:54 - Почему в своё время было принято решение переехать в Нидерланды? 06:25 - Какие есть значимые отличия жизни в России и в Голландии? 10:04 - Исчерпал ли себя уже телеграм-канал о переезде в Нидерланды? 13:38 - Насколько дорого и сложно найти жильё в Голландии? 16:41 - Комфортно ли приезжему погрузиться в культуру передвижения на велосипедах? 19:30 - Как влился в подкаст RadioJS? (Мишина версия создания проекта) R22:31 - Как развивался и преобразовывался подкаст с течением времени? 25:51 - Выпуск, записанный в самых ужасных условиях 28:24 - Почему ушел из проекта и какие были варианты продолжения? 31:37 - Зачем под путешествия использовать отдельные телеграм-чаты? 34:32 - Какие советы можно дать тем, кто хочет тоже переехать? 38:19 - Почему изменил прическу после переезда? 43:54 - Кем бы хотел быть, если бы не стал разработчиком? 44:52 - React, Angular, Vue или Ember? 46:05 - Какая справедливая зарплата для разработчика в Нидерландах? 47:08 - Готовим вместе с frontend-разработчиком 49:14 - Совет от Миши 50:45 Ссылки по теме: 1) Тот самый новогодний выпуск RadioJS – https://radiojs.ru/2014/12/happy-new-year 2) Телеграм-канал про путешествие в Исландию – http://telegram.me/iceland2017 3) Frontend Weekend Patreon – https://patreon.com/frontendweekend

In this episode of HVAC Shop Talk, Zack and Ralph continue their conversation with Matt McKinney. The boys discuss R22 retrofit charging, retrofitting coolers and freezers, and service practices.

In this episode of HVAC Shop Talk, Ralph and Zack talk to Matt McKinney from ICOR International. This podcast is the first in a series about R22 retrofit refrigerants and processes. 

EP120 - Negotiating with Amazon with Andrea Leigh Andrea Leigh is the Vice President of Client Services at Ideoclick, Inc., an Amazon managed services agency.  Andrea enjoyed a 10 year career at Amazon where she served in a number of Buying and Category Leadership roles.  We caught up with Andrea at the PathtoPurchase Summit, where she gave a key-note on selling on Amazon.  We covered a variety of topics including: Andrea's new role at Ideoclick. Amazon's presence in grocery and relationship with WholeFoods vendors The language of Amazon metrics Best practices in negotaiting with Amazon Brands selling on Amazon Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 120 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, March 12, 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. New beta feature, Google Transcription: Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 120 being recorded on Monday March 12th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here cuz Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners this is continuous are segments here Live From the Path to purchase Summit where we have some beautiful background music from Grouplove one of my favorite bands. Jason: [0:52] Great now I have to pay a royalty. Scot: [0:53] Is there a Panda sounds like. And anyway so we're really excited to have back on the show one of our most popular guest Andrea life Welcome Back. Andrea: [1:07] Thanks for having me glad to be here. Scot: [1:09] It is a quick reminder to fix your ex Amazonian and you are an expert on negotiating with Amazon cuz you were on the other side of the table I'm so this is why it's always such a Hot Topic you know what all the secrets car cards are the Amazon has. Andrea: [1:23] Exactly or at least some of them. Jason: [1:26] Does that mean they don't like you. Andrea: [1:27] Well I mean I like to think that we help clients find a win-win I mean that's the goal right it's defined areas where the brands can Excel and Amazon can continue growing the business. Scot: [1:39] It's been about a year since you're on the show so give us an update on what's new with you career-wise. Andrea: [1:43] Wow it was that long ago it feels like it was yesterday well. Scot: [1:47] Yeah these podcast it's like dog your stress me. Andrea: [1:51] So I think when we last met I was working with Melissa and Lambert Eric and Andre Kaylee Consulting. Working with brands on their Amazon strategy in September actually joined up with my husband that I do click and I'm the vice president of Client Services there. And I do click is a managed services provider so we offer software data analytics reporting Consulting and advisory Services item data management marketing AMS management. And I have been there for about 6 months now and we work with clients across all categories but tend to be a little more focused in the cpg space so Grocery and health and personal care. Scot: [2:31] How's it work with your husband. Andrea: [2:32] It's so much fun we went to grad school together and have sort of had been in the same space for a long time so it's actually like one of the best things about. Scot: [2:40] Does he ever do that joke raise like talk about sleeping with his coworker it's classical today's world is great. Andrea: [2:43] You know he does he really enjoys finding inappropriate jokes and he hasn't thought of. Scot: [2:50] I need to I've got like yeah okay. Jason: [2:52] Why I'm presuming the regular Wisner so now he has. Scot: [2:54] Yeah actually it just that one of our interns just ran up and told me that you were last on the show May 11th last year so it has been about a year. Andrea: [3:01] Wow well thanks for having me. Jason: [3:05] Thanks for being here. You mentioned cpgm grocery in a feels like groceries one of those areas where there's been a lot of progress in the last year and the groceries are thinking a lot more digitally. [3:19] Obviously the Whole Foods announcement amongst others have you seen the grocery space what's going on in grocery. Andrea: [3:25] I think the biggest thing we're seeing is that you know where a few years ago Amazon in particular and the lot of e-commerce players were really just trying to grab customers and growth and sell a lot of grocery products. The focus is really shifted to more about being profitable profitable and sustainable growth which means that for a lot of our clients in a lot of Brands out there. Selling on Amazon has become really difficult because there are a lot of product categories that just aren't super sustainable online you know given delivery economics. So we're starting to see a lot of Science and and then seeing folks in the space really starts in Sebastian capabilities Direction, to Consumer on their own using 3pl focusing on. And so I mean I just seen kind of the most I think the pace of innovation is really set up the last couple of years. As Amazon in other e-commerce players start to push some of those profit concerns back on the brands. Jason: [4:24] Yeah I think I've seen all that as well and I keep beating this drum that everyone seems to think I'm wrong on so I'm going to. Andrea: [4:33] Try me out. Jason: [4:35] Amazon can't be hugely successful in grocery but because of the delivery economics I actually think that the dominant model for digital grocery is actually grocery pickup. Andrea: [4:46] Totally totally agree with you you know I think is going to be is huge. And for a lot of these brands that I think God on the Amazon bandwagon early you know I hope they haven't abandoned some of their wine Amanda live in Bandon but I hope they haven't deprioritized some of their initiatives, with brick-and-mortar because the brick-and-mortar space is heating up around click-and-collect and grocery pick-up and so you know I think that I totally agree with you I do think that sustainable model for e-commerce is something that looks more like Amazon's Pantry model, where you try to get the average ring up. And you're able to spread those delivery and shipping economics across the larger number of items and send it kind of the slowest ship method, not only does it help with the delivery economics but it helps with forecasting when you have more time to be sort of more of a just-in-time inventory model. Jason: [5:38] Yeah yeah and speaking of pantry did you see the news that they've decided we change that model of this month so. Country used to be a paper drink thing so. 599 per box and then you you put as much stuff as you can in the box so they're doing away with the 599 ft and it's now in new service you have to subscribe to for five bucks a month and then you can use Pantry as much as. Andrea: [6:03] That makes sense. Jason: [6:04] Yeah into the theory is as as opposed to having that big friction of taking $6 out of your wallet every time you want to use it that it just gets tacked onto your your Prime membership and you stop thinking about. [6:18] Casper drinking you're more likely to use it more often. Andrea: [6:21] Yeah I mean I think that makes sense Amazon has had like wild success with all of the subscription models you know for fresh and for. Obviously Prime and you know there if they have all these Prime add-ons now across their portfolio so it does really increase the stickiness I think we've all seen the metrics around Prime and how much stickier, those customers are, but I think that's really interesting and I do believe that in the next couple of years we're going to see a really big shift at Amazon from you know the traditional amazon.com grocery category over to Pantry more push to Whole Foods more precious to pick up. To help really help the profitability it's a sizable enough category at Amazon now that it's extraordinarily painful for them. You know to be to be unprofitable on. Jason: [7:06] I wanted to make changes this month is Dave there they're not doing a bunch of pilot cities where they're delivering literally from the Whole Foods until there's even was a funny article about like the instacart guys getting like. Moved out of their office into the hallway to make room for the Amazon employee setting up setting up shop to do delivery they haven't announced it yet but I think it's it's inevitable. The dab. Logistics infrastructure get used for pick up as well and then ultimately a bunch of Whole Foods end up being pick up Depot Amazon Fresh pick up locations. Andrea: [7:39] Yeah I spent a number of years working in the grocery category at Amazon and also working on Amazon Fresh and delivery economics for fresh food are really really challenging. You know density of supercritical you know being able to hit multiple orders in an hour. It's a really it's an extraordinary Lee challenging business and so I think you know it makes sense to focus on a limited sort of version of that I maybe there's an opportunity for Amazon to get scale and then as they are able to grow that they can kind of. Encourage customers to do more pick up. Scot: [8:14] We surprised by the Whole Foods acquisition. Andrea: [8:16] I was actually you know a lot of people ask me about. About it and if I'd heard any Rumblings and no like it was completely silent and and I was really surprised although it makes sense right I mean. That's if you in order to really be I remember Jeff or maybe it was. Jeff Bezos Demetrius Jeff will he saying something in the earlier days about if we really want to be like a true, you know everything store we absolutely have to have strong penetration in grocery and in fashion does R22 normous Industries groceries like the biggest industry so. They've really got to figure out how to get that right and I think they were I mean frankly based on sort of the. At the public sees like all of the projects that are launched in our successful in a scale but there's so many Pilots that happened in Seattle that, where is interesting to everyone and if you look at all the fits and starts of this thing over the years it doesn't surprise me that they went and purchased someone who is doing really well. Scot: [9:17] Then you think so I can sleep at the store footprint one of the things I was surprised how quickly they worked on was getting the private label that was called whole 365 getting that into the other platforms very quickly that seems like almost. Day one that that got you know I saw it in my Prime now and it was featured and then obviously they done a lot in the stores with the lockers and selling Echoes everything. Andrea: [9:38] I mean I'm sure that was one of the I think that was one of the probably if you were list out like 5 or 10 main reasons Amazon bought them access to their private label is a huge one, you know they really dislike private label its assortment they can't usually have on their site, they can use sometimes get it through resellers near we were able to get some of the Costco stuff through resellers on the third-party platform bed. Scot: [9:59] Amazon is the largest seller of Kirkland. Andrea: [10:02] Now there. Scot: [10:05] Costco doesn't sell it. [10:08] It's a little bar but they they jump over it seems like as they integrate Whole Foods lb you know it seems Amazon's very efficient. Right now there's finally a different buyers and things do you think they'll consolidate that what are you hear anything about that. Andrea: [10:23] You know I think it'll be interesting to see what they do with the went looking back at some prior Acquisitions like diapers and Zappos they were really slow to integrate some of those teams, you know what I think I think they're probably a lot of reasons for that I expect this will happen quicker mainly because it's a category they have got to get, you know they've got to get more profitable on. So focusing on those classes and getting transparency there quickly is going to be important I just said something this morning about how. They've reached out to some Brands and I've invited them to some kind of like Summit or meeting next week. Whole Foods has to talk about I think it was to address some of the concerns that have been popping up in the vendor Community probably specifically around cost. But the article is also speculating that. Amazon was going to try to do away with traditional grocery Brokers which I think is a really that's really interesting and potentially like try to recoup some of those that funding for themselves. Desert of cutting out the middle intermediary. Scot: [11:25] Give me the NADA grocery what's the for dummies on grocery brokers. Andrea: [11:29] So it's a lot of Brands work with traditional brick-and-mortar through what are called Brokers so third parties in negotiating, negotiating for Shell space the brands are often like really involved in that process but the broker actually. Stop managers that relationship and for Amazon they work within. You know worked with more grocers in the earlier more brokers in the earlier days but have had really tried to kind of do away with a lot of that, I mean in some ways you could look at it as an aunt pretty Antiquated model like brands are pretty sufficient self-sufficient in their ability to negotiate now and you know and negotiate for shelf space and figure out how to navigate, a brick-and-mortar store it's not like a novelty anymore they know how to get into Costco so. I think that's a model that's kind of ripe for disruption anyway it'll be interesting to see if this encourages it more quickly across the other brick-and-mortar channel. Jason: [12:25] What one. [12:28] I've been trying to figure out we have this overlaps but like so if your craft you know how to sell to grocery stores and you have all those infrastructures and you you probably are already aren't using a broker or you're not getting on a value for the broke his heart. Carried a lot of much smaller nascent Brands often at the local level right and so you can imagine your Amy's Bakery. When you make baked goods in your kitchen and you're selling on through just the Austin Whole Foods a broker could be helpful in an opening that relationship because you don't know the kind of perms you should be doing all those hearts. Andrea: [13:02] Bright. Jason: [13:04] So part of me goes oh that's where they're taking the broker out but I actually think Amazon has already taken a lot of that local buying Authority away from the Whole Food store. Andrea: [13:13] Yeah I mean I think it's a model of those sort of deteriorating anyway and then I mean there's so there's Brokers which sort of like managed the deal but then there's also Distributors which actually procurar the product and then resell it. And that's another Avenue that a lot of those smaller Brands used to kind of get into some of the channels where they couldn't it was in make sense for them. Feels team setup for all of those different channels and so working through like a distributor broker. But you know it's more cost but and it's more profit that can be had by Amazon so I can see why they would want to get rid of that third party. Scot: [13:48] Go to this is Switching gears out of grocery this is the time of year when vendors get their their kind of notice from Amazon that it's time to negotiate which seems like it's probably a. Not exciting notice to get so imagine you get you get a lot of calls on this kind of time and you're giving a talk here today on this and you talk about it on the last show. What to do in in the world of negotiating with Amazon. Andrea: [14:13] Yeah I don't know if it's really new but growing is the concept will obviously always more automation every year there's more automation more and more of our clients even some of the larger ones now or getting through these automated email ask. So more busherts Automation and then the other more recent it all in his hands always had for some categories sort of. Professional negotiating teams and that's that. Arm of Amazon is growing so we have more more clients who are being asked to negotiate with like essentially it's a third party with an Amazon so not the retail buyer. They've traditionally worked with but instead like a professional negotiator which I think is interesting for Brands and some ways they lose. Scot: [14:56] Is it William Shatner. Andrea: [15:00] I think it's really interesting for Brands because in some ways it's a complete disadvantage for them cuz they're dealing with someone who like. Highly skilled highly skilled negotiator but in other ways it's to their advantage because they possess a lot more category knowledge than The Negotiator does and so. Thanks figuring out how to work with that team as that team grows and starts interacting with more Brands is going to be critical. Jason: [15:28] It's I don't know this is a fair amount or not but I in my mind I imagine it's a little like the. The car dealership model where essentially the they they make you negotiate with the individual sales person who very intentionally doesn't have any Authority artonomy inside there intentionally. [15:46] Aggregating you disarm mediating you from the decision maker who's the the the dealership manager in in the same way. [15:56] Professional negotiators are just intermediating the brand from the the merch. Andrea: [16:00] I would imagine that the unprofessional negotiators at least what I know of them from our clients have a very very narrow window of what they can actually approve. And you know agree to and then everything after that Pastor go is probably escalated like is far as we know the category leader is still the ultimate decision-maker so it's important to make sure like your social your large man you got access to that person, but smaller brands that we work with are typically doing a hundred percent of the negotiation over email. Scot: [16:31] How does this go so your Brand X on the go she ate or I start off and I say Brand X you've been a great partner of the Amazons we love you you're awesome we need you to come down 20% does that sound like how it starts just. Andrea: [16:43] Yeah you'll get an algorithm to the brands are given algorithmically Drive-In email that is looking at basically a day to file and saying in order for us to. Be profit positive on frayed for example we need extra sent and Afraid allowance and sometimes the figures I don't make sense to our clients of gotten messages like asking for you know 15 and 20% rate allowances which is not tenable obviously. So it's it it's an algorithmic Lee Drive in email me look like it's coming from your buyer it's probably not. Probably coming from a machine or up and it's in there some machine learning in it so if you're if you send back some responses we kind of had tested and learned on this with some of our clients you know some some responses generated, some responses back in some responses get kicked out into an exception and then typically at that point especially if you're small brand your Kik to an offshore team. But all that will conclude the negotiation. Scot: [17:35] What's the best way to like mess with a I would have your like that's too we would like to offer a bigger discount or can you just like start cussing at it. Andrea: [17:43] So we have found that for some of the critical negotiation components like Freight and marketing accruals continuing to just say no over and over again may result in the brand. Amazon not ordering from the brand anymore so we've seen a couple instances of that happening where the brand took a pretty from line there were like no and then the person wrote back you know it's the auto thing it's like. That is not an acceptable. Like term for us and then no and then that's not expensive and then there was a threat so read the email carefully if there's a threat in there that Amazon will stop ordering it's important to dress like an CERN. The address be asked but you certainly don't have to give Amazon everything they're asking. You don't have to agree to like that exact term you can agree to something more than what you're doing and typically make it through the process. Scot: [18:29] Does it start like real macro like we want 12% and then is it a good strategy to kind of start to just try to get it to be more like at least category askew or down the street level cuz it seems like on the other side you have all these different. Andrea: [18:40] Yeah and we'll talk about this today see you but I think the two things that I would really keep in mind when negotiating with Amazon are. First of all focus on win-win so you want to see if you have to give Amazon more money you want to figure out how to do it in a way that grows the business not in a way that just helps their bottom line so an example of that might be, you know coming forward with investment in a program. If crosstalk is great for you cuz it saves you money should be in if you were for some in centers it might make sense to invest in that program with Amazon because it also helps their economic so it's like a win-win or. Bringing forward a plan for an increase in marketing spending specifically Roi driven marketing like I am a story. You know helps you grow your business also helps Amazon's bottom line by giving more for things like marketing accruals or giving Amazon money for you know merchandising placements on the site that are sort of ended us. Isn't always necessarily a win-win so making sure to choose those battles really carefully and she's those spot. And then I think the other thing I would keep in mind is you know you don't you don't have to give them everything that they're asking for and if they're asking for increases in terms like free or damaged allowances ask for the supporting data that shows why the costume. Right you might not get it but at least it shows that you're your auditing and you're and you and you may be able to drive as a stalemate through that. By saying oh you want an increase in the damage Lance tell me what about my products or what specific products are showing higher damage so I can actually go fix the problem. [20:16] Instead of just giving you a higher approval for that. Scot: [20:19] Is this one Amazon will ask for different packaging or you know just like frustration-free or or or like do a bundle of 2 or any. Andrea: [20:29] This is something that is very frustrating to me in earlier years Amazon would certainly do that and as as when I started in 05 as a senior buyer that was certainly a part of the annual negotiation you would say, these items are profitable let's talk about how we can make a more profitable can we get this to a cheap Pack and change the packet me we would it would be more of a. A coaching exercise but now it's just so much easier for Amazon to ask the brands for money and especially when the negotiation is either automated or handled by a third party there's no vested interest in. And no knowledge really like expertise to help a brandy that so we have more and more clients that we work with it we're doing that with. Playing that role that the buyer used to play in helping them figure some of that out. Scot: [21:12] Doesn't Amazon use so you should be you have your Warehouse pricing and I was over here kind of separate and then I know. This may not be part of negotiation but no Amazon's now looking at that kind of thing while you're selling it on in Costco at you're the equivalent of this many dollars per ounce we want you can either bring that to you over here. Or the turn ski we have we would like to see it at the same dollars per ounce is that is that these negotiations or that's more of just price parody. Andrea: [21:38] Yeah I mean if you're that kind of comes up in like a crap situation or Amazon stream free can't realize any profit where they say William Walmart selling it for this price how are they that look that's below our cost so how are they doing that and I would advise Brands whatever you do do not share, your cost that you have with other retailers with Amazon I mean that's like a big that's a big No-No because you can't ever roll that back right. Amazon's aware of your cost structure to other brands it also makes it so that you can't throw to move the beans around when you need to it's just a level of transparency you don't ever want to go. Jason: [22:13] And I think I mean Scott might be willing to there's like a specific version of the dynamic pricing the brands are really afraid of you know you sell a can of Campbell's soup on on Amazon it's a 12 oz cans to the price per ounce is whatever. Andrea: [22:26] Yes right so. Jason: [22:27] Salad case pack to Costco. Andrea: [22:30] Amazon is getting so much smarter about that I mean it used to be when we watch I went through many Revolutions of Brands divots doesn't like spending a lot of R&D on designing different pack sizes I think the K-Cup Industries a great example of this, where they you know sold at this packsize to Costco in this tax ID Amazon this one to Target and they will never know that it's like all the wrong the same different prices. They will price match each other but Amazon figured that out real quick and started matching perk up and then they started matching per diaper per White. Per ounce a lot of categories have the / something rolled out by now and if they don't have it. You know they will so trying to circumvent price-matching through different pack sizes may buy us some time. But it isn't a long-term solution. Jason: [23:19] You mentioned a couple of terms when we were just talking about the certain negotiating strategies like Freight allowance for example it feels like there's a hole. Different vernacular at Amazon and I know they they said these are. Metrics and they really Drive everything to those metrics can you kind of educated so like what are the high-level Brands need to learn about to work. Andrea: [23:44] Well I think he's kind of two questions like what are the terms you're going to negotiate about and then what are the kpi is to manage your business but the terms are and actually don't I mean I don't know if these are really different from other retailers that don't have knowledge about, you know about brick-and-mortar as much but you know they're typically looking at some kind of marketing. Come up is a high-level term that refers to any money you give Amazon so often Play Straight payments accruals whatever it is all Co-op. I'm better at least that's how Amazon Defiance Co-op it's typically a marketing accrual. Or some kind of basic rule for base allowance there's a damaged allowance and Afraid allowance if Amazon is paying the freight sometimes the client for the vendors paying the freight. Scot: [24:26] These are all expressed as some so if I'm spending. Andrea: [24:29] They're all rappers. Scot: [24:30] Amazon to buy a million and I'm going to do co-op dollars at 10% is 300000 in addition to that and these are all that's kind of how they're all measured. Andrea: [24:38] All percentage of cost of goods sold all off invoice and then there are definitely get subscribe and save allowance depending on the category you're in there may be a mark. There could be like volume incentive rebate. There might be like straight payments you agreed to you throughout the year you might be paying for your talking about your SVS of your strategic vendor services. Representative during this time of year that's like a headcount you can buy at Amazon that just works on your brand. So all of these things going to come together to be the annual terms negotiations and son is when the automated tasks include everything that you're actually doing with Amazon so it's important to use a Tracker like Bill. So that you got it all up you. Scot: [25:25] You have a free one that I've heard you. Andrea: [25:26] I do yeah it's on my website yeah it's on my website Andre Kaylee consulting.com will be adding it to be I do click sites soon too but it just allows you to swear to fill in. Your sales and the last year's turns this year's terms and then it auto calculates all the actual dollars spent printed look at the actual dollars, it's one thing to know that you're giving Amazon a point more this year and it's another thing to actually understand based on your gross right how many more dollars are actually giving Amazon anyway. Because a lot of brands are going really quickly on Amazon and they're doubling their spend with Amazon without actually even changing their coop. Jason: [26:03] And then you mentioned so those are some of the terms you mention like their specific API. Andrea: [26:07] Yeah so some of the key so it's important to speak Amazon when working with them especially if you're sort of pushed one of these automated channels. Jason: [26:15] Side note I was thinking the way to work around that way I haven't tried this myself so you're on your own but is only negotiate in a language that their natural language processor doesn't understand something like Klingon or Jeff Bezos it probably doesn't. [26:30] So I might be Swahili. Andrea: [26:32] About you know if I can get if I can get a willing client with a sense of humor that might be somebody that might be something to try. But there are a set of Casey eyes that are important for understanding and running your business on Amazon if you can get a good command of them and understand them and have some benchmarking available to you, you can run a really successful business on Amazon without ever interacting with a human but it's important to know the kti's sales sales growth obviously, it's really important to look at a lot of clients who work with even big ones tend to look almost exclusively at, orders Amazon places from the brand you really need to be looking at point-of-sale data that is the true indicator of Simeon, that helps you understand how effective your marketing and promotional activities are so that POS state is really critical so shift cogs. Gross gross and units gross revenue again really surprised how a lot of clients will only look at Revenue which you lose a lot of the transactional nature of the Metra. Understanding like how customers are transaction with your units looking at the in stock and inventory rates I think. Time and time again we work with clients where they're like why is my business not growing very fast Amazon you luck in the products are good and they are, getting pretty good search ranking but they're only the brand is only feeling like half of the purchase orders like they're not willing to come and see you, you have to have product in order to sell it so keeping track of some of those metrics getting your handle on your own metrics around this is important Amazon reports on a metric in Vendor Central called Fast Track in stock. [28:02] Its sales waited and glance product may be going to eat there but it's Lance he waited you should just really know of all your items available how many. Haven't been trying have any doubt it's a much simpler metric it gives you a much bigger picture and more complete picture. Scot: [28:17] So the sales rate is it is it does some indexing to get tire sales rank items and how fast are field. Andrea: [28:22] You get a bigger good guy if you're in stock on the top seller and you don't get a bad guy at all if you're out of stuff done something that is like a really low seller. Scot: [28:30] When does so when they come in sizes brands are frustrated Amazon's not buying their buying less and less of their swetman when does that come up in this negotiation or it sounds like it really doesn't sounds like the buyers know if I was going to buy these are the terms. Andrea: [28:45] If you're in a position where you're negotiating with a machine you've got to find another way to sell this product on Amazon through third-party so so it'll be really hard for you to get like. Automated system or the team in Indiana to like respond to a request like that but if you are in a position where you got a live person you certainly should bring that into the negotiation. Why aren't you buying all my products I'll give you this Co-op if you commit sore during my whole assortment and you know a lot of times you can talk to them about how. That is certainly may not be performing very well because it hasn't been in stock it performs very well at other retailers like giving all of that data and information and can help Amazon make decision. Scot: [29:23] But not your custody with other retailers. Andrea: [29:25] But I think everyone knows that but that is important to mention I was surprised when I was a buyer how many Brands would be transparent about that. Scot: [29:34] I've never been offender son learning a ton. Jason: [29:38] You're lucky man last time you went to show we talked a little bit and you wouldn't do it earlier they have this. Unhappy status can't realize a profit. [29:51] AKA crap which great great back back story and all that about how that all came into being. Scot mention vendors that are frustrated that they won't carry the whole line my perception is almost always that at the beginning of the relationship and tell me if I have this wrong. They actually do carry the whole line and then products get crapped out and they start curating what they carry it is that largely true or or is it the case that they might only. Andrea: [30:21] So yeah usually am is it is depends generally speaking Amazon Lori thinks that customers look at so customers don't look at it they probably won't order it. But if you if you just cover your whole assortment isn't available on Amazon there could be a myriad of reasons why that is it could go back to like item setup issues maybe Amazon tried to order from you and you didn't fill it. You know maybe it's just not getting enough product gland to use. Or maybe it's crap and we seen a lot of movement and interesting developments in Amazon's crap program over the last year. The biggest one being that now they're showing the crap out products that are just little margin not negative margin used to be the zero was the floor. Now if they're not hitting some Morgan emergent targets are requirements for the category they're essentially not ordering those products from. Client there from the brands anymore or crapping the products out. And I think that's a new development another new development is Amazon's kind of shifted the conversation from profitability to Pure product margin their PPM. And I think the reason they're doing that is when they start crapping out products and communicating what products does our it allows clients and Brands and their parties to reconstruct Amazon's cost structure. And so focusing on here product margin which is just the different at Pier product margin which is the difference between the cost of the product Celeste any marketing accruals or any Co-op. And the retail selling price really helps them focus on products where they're having to do a lot of price matching and where they want the brand to take some ownership over that issue. [31:55] Which might mean you know going to your other Retail Partners and saying stop selling at these price I mean that's what they want you to do right by you to go back to Walmart and say stop selling online at this price. Which actually some of our clients who died and it has her mixed results with that which is been interesting. Scot: [32:12] Meaning Walmart said no and then there are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Andrea: [32:16] The biggest thing for noticing is that why maricon in Walmart stores have different prices and it's lower online cuz they're trying to drive Amazon low and then get them to Walmart online. Walmart.com in brick and mortar from what we learn from our clients are like completely separate entities so if you go back to the econ team and you say and in typical answering very little business on an walmart.com so we had a few clients go back to Walmart and say. Don't sell it at this price anymore or I will stop shipping it to you and Walmart income. Raise the price so it actually has been effective for a few client that hasn't been effective for everyone but for a few of the players that we've worked with they had sex. Scot: [32:56] I think they're trying to normalize that have one buyer for both but. Andrea: [33:00] Right now there's still a gap you take advantage of it. Jason: [33:02] Yeah and I would imagine there's some flexibility about what you sell to them for online if it when it comes down to having to go to Walmart and raise the price in store I suspect that's not going to go well. Andrea: [33:15] Oh absolutely and I don't I mean clients wouldn't really it wouldn't be in their best interest to do that they're doing so much volume there, but only time it's a different story we've also heard he, walmart.com will take whatever product I can get. I'm there less selective about it and so potentially you know suggesting different products versus what you're selling on Amazon might be a good strategy. Jason: [33:35] Going back to that kind of picking the line that Amazon curious though why. I guess the model and I had is that you're selling apparel right then you go calling Macy's and you bring a bunch of mannequins and you show me all the dresses and some Merchant at Macy's goes. That one's pretty that one's pretty I don't like that one right and it's their subjective expertise around the category. [33:57] My son says there's no Merchant in Amazon is going to subjectively try to pick winners and losers. Andrea: [34:03] I think there's some exceptions to that the biggest ones being the pantry program where they are choosing products you can just put anything in pantry it goes through an approval process now, the people making those decisions might not know might not be as educated as maybe like a a Walmart in-store brick-and-mortar buyer, but they are making assortment decisions and so Brands record making some recommendations there can really help move that process along the other space were seeing that is in fashion, I think Amazon started trying to carry all the assortment and quickly realized I mean first we have a couple, fashion clients that sell Alberta 10,000 skews and you certainly can't carry all that ass for me have to build Smooth Sailing Center so they did they have invested internally in. What they're calling more tastemakers to actually choose assortment and and make those types of decisions. Scot: [34:53] Well I know we're running up against a lunch here so why don't we go ahead and wrap so that you can have some lunch before you have to talk. Jason: [35:01] Yeah so if people do have further questions or welcome to jump on her Facebook page and will continue the conversation if yeah if you enjoy the show we'd love to see you jump on the iTunes and give us that 5-star review but thanks very much for making time for us and the listeners today. Andrea: [35:16] Yeah thanks for having me guys. Jason: [35:18] Until next time happy commencing!

In this episode of HVAC Shop Talk Zack and Ralph talk to Jed Kennedy and Doug Reinke from Bluon Energy. Jed and Doug talk about TdX 20, an R22 replacement that they claim is also an upgrade to the original refrigerant.  HVAC Shop Talk on YouTube HVAC Shop Talk Facebook Group HVAC Shop Talk Facebook Page Support us on Patreon!  

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