• Bob Smith has been appointed director of sales and marketing of the North American Heat Transfer OEM Products division of Lennox International (Dallas, TX).

  • The membership of the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) elected the following officers:
    — chairman, Larry Rauch, Los Angeles Cold Storage, Los Angeles, CA;
    — vice chairman, Patrick A. Gouveia, Atlas Cold Storage, Toronto, ON, Canada; and
    — treasurer, John R. Randall, P&O Cold Logistics, Sydney, Australia.

    New board members elected to serve as directors-at-large are:
    — Paul V. Shortt, Castlecool Ltd., Castleblayney, Ireland (chairman of the Irish Cold Storage Federation);
    — Brent Sugden, Versacold Corp., Vancouver, BC, Canada; and
    — Raymond Tarnowski, Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage, Philadelphia, PA.

    Newly elected board of directors who will represent IARW chapters in North America are:
    — Great Lakes chapter board representative, Patrick Gorbett, Great Lakes Cold Storage Co., Solon, OH;
    — South Pacific chapter representative, Darryl Kawano, Unicold Corp., Honolulu, HI; and
    — Southeastern chapter representative, Jeffrey C. Spence, ICS Logistics, Jacksonville, FL.

    Publication date: 06/10/2002