in loving MEMORY

Anders was a dear friend and Affiliate Board member of ASTI for over 10 years. He traveled to Watsonville annually to attend and speak to the ASTI 32 Hour students. He was a favorite of the staff and all the ASTI instructors.

Anders was the Chief Industrial Refrigeration Engineer for Frigoscandia AB and President of Swedish-based refrigeration consultancy Ammonia Partnership AB, founding member of Eurammon, and Honorary Member of the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration.  He worked long and hard both nationally and internationally to promote a better understanding of natural refrigerants. 

He was a great supporter of ammonia and was nicknamed globally as “Mr. Ammonia”.  Next to refrigeration technology, ammonia and golf, Anders was devoted to music and participated in many different choral groups.  

Jim Ennes was a Retired Fire Chief when he joined the ASTI team in 1997.  He was in the fire service for 30 years before retiring from the Manteca/Lathrop Fire Protection District.  He served as a City Hazmat Inspector for the City of Watsonville and was certified in Hazardous Materials Management from the University of California at Davis. Jim coordinated all the ASTI trainings, performed ASTI training classes, and established training agreements with ASTI clients. He provided feedback on how to recognize, prevent, and respond to emergency events involving ammonia.  

Jim was dearly loved and appreciated for his tireless work with the ASTI team. The ASTI training clients quickly counted on him as an honest and highly experienced talent for emergency response protocol and management of the hazards, risks, and threats of ammonia. Jim's favorite reply to the question about 'how did it go?' for the latest training event was "winner, winner, chicken dinner!

Troy William Baker was a graduate of the Citadel ROTC and served in the U.S. Army as a Captain in chemical warfare defense specialist.  He was an ASTI board member, and for the last two years, served as Vice Chair.  He worked for Honeywell in Safety and Gas Detection for 37 years.  During his time in the industry he participated as a host, speaker and trainer for every Ammonia Safety Day that ASTI performed in North America, conducted more than 10,000 facility safety audits, conducted the first Chinese-American Ammonia Safety Training Classes, conducted the first Filipino-American Ammonia Safety Consultancy, created the Canadian Ammonia Safety Days, engineered the largest Ammonia monitoring system in North America, was the Honeywell International Global SME for Refrigerant Safety, Ammonia, Refrigerant Chemicals, and advisor for their Green Refrigerant Team, and actively created the highest PPE for Ammonia Test Chamber in the industry.  He was an educational contributor to RETA as both White Paper and Speaker for the past decade and shared the safety message with many RETA chapters around this country as part of their monthly meetings especially on the subject of “Profitable Safety”.  

Troy enjoyed the comradery and networking that his work with ASTI team welcomed. He enjoyed reading, medicine (including Environmental Medicine), music, child development, sports, live events, traveling and food.