At REALice Canada we are often asked for suggestions to help improve the arena ice maintenance and reduce the costs of running the rink. Of course, with rising natural gas and electricity costs and increasing carbon taxes, cutting the arena's energy spent is key. Here is our...
Nathan Kleinschmit, Engineering Manager and Ice Specialist at The Monument in Rapid City, SD, says ice quality wasn't ever an issue at their arena. After all, Rapid City has a pretty dry environment, and the hockey season is normally over before the hot weather begins. That...
Read the latest press release from the City of Leduc: AUGUST 24, 2021 - The City of Leduc's Alexandra Arena has said goodbye to its reliance on hot water to create and resurface the ice rink to reduce cost, and will be running cold through...
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, VT. Castleton University's Spartan Arena has been using REALice to build and resurface ice since 2013, with fabulous results...
The City of Nanaimo was looking for opportunities to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This summer, REALice was installed in the Nanaimo Ice Centre and now maintenance workers resurface their 2 NHL-sized ice sheets with cold water. When Scott Pamminger (Manager, Infrastructure Planning and Energy...
I end up talking about brine temperature all the time. That's because with REALice, that's where the real energy savings are. When using REALice-treated water to resurface your rink, your ice plant doesn't need to work as hard taking the heat off the ice and with...