VASA to Host 2024 Wire & Gas Conference: A Premier Industry Event
July 23, 2024
By: Alexa Murphy, MACS We are excited to share that VASA, our sister organization, has announced their incredible lineup for this year’s Wire & Gas Convention in Brisbane, Australia! This...Read Article >
Join MACS for HD A/C Boot Camp!
April 5, 2024
by: Alexa Murphy Membership, Events, & Marketing Assistant @ MACS Have you heard? MACS is going to be hosting an exclusive two-day boot camp live at the MACS headquarters! The...Read Article >
Spring Into Mobile A/C Season!
March 21, 2024
By: Alexa Murphy Spring is here! With a hopeful mind, we look forward to warmer weather, short sleeve shirts and shorts. We also look forward to the upcoming season of...Read Article >
MACS Presenting at MAACA Super Saturday
October 4, 2023
MACS Manager of Service Training, Steve Schaeber, will be presenting a Section 609 Certification Prep Class and Test at the Mid Atlantic Auto Care Alliance (MAACA) Super Saturday Event on...Read Article >
EPA Set to Issue NPRM on AIM ACT Refrigerant Reclamation
September 7, 2023
The US EPA is set to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by September 30, 2023 in accordance with the requirements of the US AIM Act 42 USC 7675...Read Article >
Recycle vs Reclaim
May 17, 2023
By Steve Schaeber, MACS Technical Editor MACS member shops (and in fact, almost every repair shop in the country that services mobile A/C systems), have been servicing those systems the...Read Article >
Refrigerant Deja Vu
May 8, 2023
by Richard Hawkins, MACS Contributor Lots of changes since the 80’s If you have been associated with mobile Air Conditioning since the late 1980s, you have witnessed a lot of...Read Article >
EPA Stakeholder meeting is scheduled for March 16, 2023
March 16, 2023
EPA is holding a stakeholder meeting on Thursday, March 16 at 11am (EDT) on the reclamation of HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) in the United States. This meeting is being held pursuant to...Read Article >
Training At Leonardo Helicopters
February 16, 2023
By Steve Schaeber, MACS Manager of Service Training MACS Manager of Service Training, Steve Schaeber, spent the day at Leonardo Helicopters (AgustaWestland Products) at PNE airport (Northeast Philadelphia Airport) teaching...Read Article >
Follow up on the 12/30/22 EPA virtual public hearing
January 12, 2023
By Steve Schaeber, MACS Technical Editor Let me start off by saying Happy New Year! to everyone, and here’s to a great 2023! Since many of you were on holiday...Read Article >
A Memorable Tech Call
January 4, 2023
by Richard Hawkins Happy New Year to everyone. Hope you all had a good holiday season. We will begin the year on something of a light note. I am sometimes...Read Article >
Refrigerant recovery and system diagnostics
October 19, 2022
That’s right. Two days later the customer called and said it was cooling terrible. I had him bring it back in and put the gauges on it and checked the vent temperature and it was running about 325 on the high side and about 45 on the low side and the vent temperature was about 55 as I indicated earlier. Of course, it was in the low 90’s that day.Read Article >
