It's been a winning year for Danbury Ice Arena in Danbury, CT. Its professional ice hockey team, the Danbury Hat Tricks, is one of 11 teams that make up the Federal Prospects Hockey League. On Sunday, they edged out the Carolina Thunderbirds on home ice in an exciting Game...
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-Olympic hockey teams, is a Hobey Baker Award Winner, Harvard grad and a successful businessman. John O'Neill is...
As we begin 2022, it's a great time to take stock and find proven options to reduce your arena's operating costs. If you're feeling stressed by increasing utility costs, you're not alone. REALice will make a difference to your monthly energy spend. Our cold floodwater system is one of...
The Mayors Megawatt Challenge, a network of municipalities from Ontario, Canada (MMC) shared their Roadmap to Net Zero Ice Rinks recently. This pilot study looked at nine arenas in the Greater Toronto Area and assessed the many ways of how emissions can be reduced before purchasing carbon...
(That's why this Hobey Baker Award Winner said "NO" to hot water floods and "YES" to REALice - TWICE!) November 15, 2021 - Owner Scott Fusco first put the REALice floodwater treatment system into one of two rinks at the Edge Sports Center facility back in...
[caption id="attachment_19725" align="alignnone" width="763"] Hear what operators have to say about making great ice with REALice - in 96 seconds![/caption] If you're still flooding with hot water, you're losing money. Watch what what these ice makers have to say about the REALice difference: lower run times, energy...
Higher salaries. Additional personnel. New equipment. These are just three examples of what REALice customers are doing with their energy savings by no longer using hot water to resurface their ice. Imagine what you could do if your ice arena was able to cut its natural gas and electricity bills...
"REALice? It's a no-brainer if you want to save money and have great ice." - Larry Bruyere, Ice in Paradise February 23, 2017 - REALice has been installed at Ice in Paradise in Goleta, CA ever since the twin-pad opened 16 months ago. Larry Bruyere is the...
Mystique Community Ice Center's General Manager says switching to REALice's cold water resurfacing technology is giving his facility "tremendous savings" The 3,079-seat Mystique Community Ice Center in Dubuque, Iowa opened in 2010. General Manager Ron Breitbach started working there a few months after the $7.2 million facility opened. This past summer,...