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If you have wash water on your ice resurfacer, use it for every ice make! Many ice resurfacing machines are equipped with wash water, but not everyone...

October 23, 2024

“When my user groups are happy, I’m happy!” That’s what Tyler Shores, Grounds Specialist at Colby College, says about the ska...

October 4, 2024

Colby College’s Jack Kelley Rink is a part of the amazing 4-year-old Harold Alfond Sports and Recreation Complex in Waterville, ME. This NCAA Di...

September 6, 2024

Zion Cruz, Arena Manager for the C.H. Foote Memorial Arena in Fraser Lake, BC talks about his success with REALice and why his ice looks wet, even tho...

September 3, 2024

Our latest webinar lineup included ice makers from the Jack Kelley Rink at Maine’s Colby College on hand, as well as a long-time REALice operat...

September 3, 2024

  Getting Buy-In: In last week’s webinar, Energy Managers Scott Prevost from the City of Waterloo and Bryan Ho-Yan from the City of Guelph shar...

June 25, 2024

Paul Jackson, the head ice technician at the Fairgrounds Arena in Winston-Salem, NC recently took part in a REALice webinar, and this is a recap of wh...

June 19, 2024

Does anything change when you go from hot water to REALice? Four ice makers using REALice – Ryan Hobby, Wayne Bacon, Paul Jackson, and Tim Morri...

May 15, 2024

  Are You Running a Heater in Your Freezer? You are if the ambient air temperature at 50-60°F. Or even warmer!!! That heater in the freezer is c...

April 19, 2024

  Driving an ice-resurfacing machine is easy, right? Whether it’s a Zamboni, Olympia, Engo, or WM ice resurfacing machine, no, it is not! L...

April 8, 2024

“We never had bad ice in the past,” says Superior Ice Rink’s Ryan Hobby. “But with REALice it’s just so much better.&#82...

December 14, 2023

The Lanxess Arena in Cologne (Köln) Germany. Last Wednesday night, 18,475 fans packed the arena to watch the home professional team, the Kölner Haie...

October 27, 2023

Here’s the highlight reel from last week’s Operator to Operator webinar on Summer Ice. Special thanks for sharing their experience and experti...

July 6, 2023

We recently visited Scott Fusco and John O’Neill at The Edge Sports Center in Bedford, MA. You may have heard of Scott Fusco: he played on two US...

May 4, 2023

This week our operator-to-operator call takes us to Uxbridge, Ontario. At a recent skate, lunch and learn, we spoke to facility operator Tim Morrison ...

November 15, 2022

Hakan and Colleen stopped in at the Polar Palace in Valleyview, Alberta to speak with Archie Steward, Facility Operations Manager. Archie speaks about...

November 8, 2022

Have a look at this short video clip featuring Monty Wood, Arena Manager for the Clare Drake Arena at the University of Alberta. The Clare Drake Aren...

November 3, 2022

From silver foxes to young operators, see what people are thinking about the REALice difference: ice quality, and savings – in under 2 minutes. ...

November 2, 2022

A few weeks back we introduced Wayne Bacon, the lead hand for the Multi Rec Centre in Slave Lake, Alberta. Wayne shared how his new ice became the tal...

August 10, 2022

Wayne’s official title, this time around, is Lead Hand. He’s been doing the ice in Slave Lake, AB for 35 years, — and the past t...

July 21, 2022

Is there a difference between ice made with hot water and ice made with REALice? Jim Hampton from Sports Plus Ohio says there is. With over 250,000 sq...

May 26, 2022

In many smaller communities, curlers have no dedicated ice of their own and share arena ice with skaters. Many will tell you that’s not ideal...

April 11, 2022

My first stop a few weeks ago was the Servus Community Arena in Bow Island, Alberta. Doug Conquergood the arena manager there had kindly agreed to g...

March 31, 2022

The town of Caledon, Ontario is a three-time repeat customer. When another municipality just outside the greater Toronto area asked for a site visit, ...

March 24, 2022

Dagan Doraty and Chrissy Jochmes are impressed with the clean floods they are achieving with the help of the REALice system. “It’s just ni...

January 26, 2022

Clarey Martin is the General Manager of the Upper Skeena Recreation Centre in Hazelton, BC. This arena is just two years old. It has no dehumidifier...

January 11, 2022

Greg Mitchell, Arena Coordinator in Kitimat, BC speaks about their two arenas using the REALice floodwater treatment system. With REALice, the days ar...

December 21, 2021

Please join us for this operator-to-operator interview with Bryan Hawn, Arena Supervisor at Kal Tire Place in Vernon, BC. This is a big arena and ho...

November 17, 2021

The way Fred Kilner tells it, running after their ice was getting in the way of being icemakers. Two years into his retirement, we caught up with him ...

November 1, 2021

Nathan Kleinschmit, Engineering Manager and Ice Specialist at The Monument in Rapid City, SD, says ice quality wasn’t ever an issue at their are...

September 13, 2021

When Josh Welch from the Township of King in Ontario reached out to us about water quality, we pointed to one of our long-time customers in Castleton,...

August 24, 2021

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