August 2025

To modernize its sales approach, reduce operational costs, and better communicate complex product value, EVAPCO partnered with JigSpace to integrate augmented reality into their go-to-market strategy. By digitizing their product demonstrations at trade shows and in-house training, they have continued to unlock new ways to sell, train, and grow. EvVAPCO’s products—large-scale heat rejection equipment and natural refrigerant systems—are highly technical, often weighing tens of thousands of pounds. Showing these products in action poses a significant logistical and financial challenge. EVAPCO

In the United States (US), ammonia maintains an overwhelming presence in industrial refrigeration, occupying an estimated 80% to 90% of the market, according to Kurt Liebendorfer , VP of Industrial Refrigeration Business Development at Evapco. However, this dominance has declined slightly over the past decade as the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2 / R744) refrigeration systems moves from the supermarket/ retail sector to the industrial sector as well. "This decline has primarily occurred in the new cold storage sector, where many new cold storages have been built over the same 10-year period

Behind the scenes at a major resort on the Las Vegas Strip, an effort is underway at the Bellagio Resort & Casino to reduce water use on a massive scale. MGM Resorts International is piloting the Strip’s first hybrid cooling system with technology designed to save millions of gallons of water a year. “The controls, in the first year of use, are learning. And so what the controls need to do is figure out, based on the cooling load of the building and the ambient outdoor temperature, should it be running in wet mode or dry mode,” Michael Gulich, vice president of sustainability for MGM Resorts