Outsourcing Facilities: Environmental Monitoring and Controls Critical in Drug Compounding
Drug compounding is the process of combining, mixing, or altering pharmaceutical ingredients to create a medication tailored to an...
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- May 1
MSC Project Throwback: Vapor Recovery Unit Renovation
The year was 1981, and MSC had been contracted to gut and refurbish several Edwards Engineering explosion-proof gasoline vapor recovery...
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- Apr 17
Ionocaloric Cooling: Will This New Breakthrough Replace Harmful Refrigerants?
Scientists at the Dept. of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a promising new refrigeration process that uses...
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- Mar 31
MSC Service Call: Finding an Elusive Propylene Glycol Leak with Dye
During a monthly HVAC preventive maintenance visit to a large manufacturing facility, an MSC service technician noticed that the level of...
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- Mar 15
Hiring Good People
Mechanical Service Corporation founder and company president Harry Hartigan has always said, “If you hire good people that want to work...
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- Feb 27
MSC Design/Builds Complex Projects for Special Environments
Among the various HVAC, process cooling, and building automation services provided by MSC, design/build is one that many clients might be...
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- Feb 13
Understanding MERV and ASHRAE's Recommended Filter Value
The Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value, commonly known as MERV, is a standard developed by ASHRAE that measures the overall effectiveness...
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- Jan 30
MSC Always Answers the Call
Since the day in 1978 when Hartigan Refrigeration officially became Mechanical Service Corporation, MSC has made itself available to...
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- Jan 16
Addressing Lingering HVAC Problems with "Design/Repair" Projects
An MSC service technician arrived at our client’s manufacturing facility early one morning to perform HVAC preventive maintenance and was...
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- Dec 29, 2022
HVAC Plays an Integral Part in Preventing the Spread of Smoke and Fire Via Air Handling Systems
Fire codes in most jurisdictions require duct smoke detectors to be installed on the supply side of air handling units of more than 2,000...
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- Dec 14, 2022
Cannabis Odor Mitigation: Some NJ Cultivators Learning the Hard Way in Fast-Emerging Industry
As a populous state that’s long been at the forefront of industry and agriculture and where air pollution and odor emissions are heavily...
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- Dec 1, 2022
Your Closed-Loop HVAC/R System May Have a Dirty Secret
Closed-loop HVAC/R systems, which include chilled water, hot water preheat, hot water reheat, condenser water, glycol economizer...
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- Nov 15, 2022
"MSC is for people who are looking for real solutions"
This testimonial, which appeared for many years on our website, came from a famed New Jersey telecommunications company and longtime MSC...
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- Oct 25, 2022
Benefits of Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing
Testing, adjusting, and balancing (TAB), also known as air and water balancing is a method of regulating air supply, return, and exhaust,...
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- Oct 11, 2022
MSC Provides Fan Stall Diagnostics and Repair
When a fan is selected for a given application, the expectation is for steady air flow and pressure with little fluctuation. Certain...
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- Sep 27, 2022
Benefits of Humidification
Winter is almost here, and maintaining the proper relative humidity (RH) levels at home and in work environments is very important during...
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- Sep 13, 2022
The Truth About Airside Economizers
The airside economizer is a mechanical device that draws in fresh outside air when temperatures are cool enough, enabling building owners...
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- Aug 23, 2022
Plate and Frame Heat Exchangers
A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between two fluids, either liquid or gas, without the media coming in contact or...
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- Aug 5, 2022
Process Air System Diagnostics and PM
MSC recently came to the aid of a large North Jersey manufacturing plant experiencing problems with airflow and distribution in a...
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- Jul 20, 2022
MSC Focuses on Specialized HVAC Systems for NJ Cannabis Cultivation
Cannabis cultivation requires tightly-controlled environmental conditions in which temperature, humidity, and air filtration are...
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