Starting January 1, 2026, the AIM Act’s new rules could force operators to retrofit or retire refrigeration systems that leak persistently—triggering costly replacements if repairs fail.Many businesses mistakenly believe they can delay Automatic Leak Detection (ALD) until 2027, but enforcement begins a year earlier.

Under the AIM Act and state-level refrigerant management regulations, Automatic Leak Detection (ALD) systems seem like a convenient “easy button” to help achieve compliance, and they are even required in some cases. But choosing the wrong ALD system, one that floods your inbox with false alarms or fails to detect the right leaks, can backfire in a big way.

Refrigerant Regulations: EPA's AIM Act compliance and the January 2026 deadline, by Amrit Robbins, as featured in Chain Store Age.

New York's groundbreaking refrigerant regulations, which took effect January 9th, 2025, signal a significant shift in how facilities must manage their refrigeration systems. The requirements are immediate and substantial: any system using 200+ pounds of refrigerant must undergo quarterly inspections, while 1500+ lb systems require monthly monitoring. All leaks must be repaired within 14 days, and systems that continue to leak fac...

As grocery retailers face a decades-long transition to natural refrigerants, managing HFC leaks has become an urgent priority for both environmental and financial reasons. This challenge was the focus of a recent NASRC webinar led by Axiom Cloud CEO Amrit Robbins on December 10th. The session explored how retailers can tackle refrigerant leaks now to achieve immediate cost savings and environmental benefits, rather than ...

For food retailers, managing refrigerant leaks is a critical task, but many detection systems place a heavy burden on operating budgets: the need to install and maintain hardware and monitoring sensors across many facilities. With regulations from the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act coming into effect, grocery retailers will be required to install Automatic Lead Detection (ALD) systems. While the EPA lists 10 compliant options presently on the market, not all

The upcoming changes to EPA regulations under the AIM Act dramatically alter how grocery retailers and cold storage facilities manage refrigerant leaks. In a September 17th Webinar titled "How Can I Comply with the New EPA Requirements in 2025—and Achieve a Great ROI?", Axiom Cloud CEO Amrit Robbins and Steven Blumenfeld, GM of TrakRef, explored these regulatory shifts and offered insights on compliance strategies that can also enhance operational efficiency and sustainabilit

Refrigerant leaks are a hidden threat for grocery stores, with massive climate impact and costly consequences. As the EPA enforces HFC regulations under the AIM Act, grocery chains must act fast. Axiom Cloud’s software provides a low-cost, no-hardware solution to reduce leaks, cut emissions, and ensure compliance. The question isn’t if you should act, but how.

"Automatic Leak Detection" enables refrigerant leak rate reductions for Sprouts stores in California.

On December 19, Axiom Cloud hosted a webinar with experts from MSA Bacharach, Effecterra, Therm Solutions, and NASRC to discuss the new EPA regulations and refrigerant guidelines.

With the EPA's new regulations phasing down high global warming potential hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, grocery stores, cold storage facilities, and other commercial operators with refrigeration systems have a pressing need for solutions to detect leaks proactively. Manual inspections alone are time-consuming, disruptive, and prone to missing leaks between intermittent checks. However, extensive sensor hardware deployments can also be complex and expensive. Axiom Clou

For grocery and cold storage operators, the advanced refrigeration systems that keep your products fresh and frozen are essential to your business success. However, many of these systems still employ hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, which, when leaked, become potent and harmful greenhouse gases. With the EPA's upcoming regulations phasing out high-global warming potential HFCs, proper monitoring and maintenance of refrigeration equipment to prevent leaks will be critical

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is enacting new regulations to phase down potent greenhouse gas refrigerants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). This phasedown aims to reduce HFC emissions that contribute to climate change. But what do these new rules mean for you as the owner of a commercial facility like a grocery store or cold storage warehouse that relies on refrigeration? Below I summarize the key impacts on commercial refrigeration owners and how businesses can

On August 31, Axiom Cloud hosted a webinar with experts from CBES, CoolSys, and Therm, with the goal of exploring why AI is the future of leak detection.

On March 2, 2023, Axiom Cloud hosted a webinar with experts from City Building and Engineering (CBES) and Effecterra to discuss alarm monitoring and cloud analytics.

On December 6, 2022, Axiom Cloud hosted a cold-storage-focused webinar with Benjamin "Spoon" Spoon and William "Danny" Wise of HelloFresh.

On September 13th, 2022, Axiom Cloud hosted a webinar about avoiding the most common reasons for compressor failures with panelists from Omni Mechanical and Refrigeration Mentor.

On June 15th, 2022, Axiom Cloud hosted a webinar about reducing refrigerant leak rates with panelists from Grocery Outlet and Climate Pros.

Across the fleet of grocery stores currently subscribed to Axiom Cloud's apps, around two-thirds of stores that had floating suction pressure controls enabled were not receiving the expected energy benefits.

In this blog post, we'll discuss many of the indirect or "hidden" costs of unplanned refrigeration outages. As you'll see, maintenance contractor invoices are just the tip of the iceberg!