• DESA International’s Heating Products Division (Bowling Green, KY) and the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association AFL-CIO, Local 433 signed a new, three-year labor contract that was effective July 5. Union employees returned to work on July 9.

  • Hansen Technologies Corporation (Burr Ridge, IL) will now accept MasterCard, Visa, and American Express for payment in addition to traditional billing methods. For more information, go to www.hantech.com (website).

  • Chris Moore has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing at Field Controls (Kingston, NC). Moore will direct the overall marketing operations of the company by overseeing product development, advertising, forecasting, customer service, and pricing.

  • Goettl Air Conditioning, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ), has hired Linda De Leon as assistant controller.

  • Scott Arendt and John C. Pfeffer will join the Moisture Control Services (MCS) (Amesbury, MA) division of Munters Corporation. Arendt will serve as industrial account manager and Pfeffer will serve as industrial sales manager for the division.

  • Engineered Support Systems, Inc. (St. Louis, MO), has received a contract valued at approximately $80 million for the production of 100-kW and 200-kW Tacital Quiet Generators from the U.S. Army. The Army has also placed an order totaling $10.8 million for 3-kW Tacital Quiet Generator sets.

  • Tecogen (Waltham, MA) announced that its Tecochill systems have become the first natural gas-driven chillers eligible for cash rebates under the California Energy Commission’s “Innovative Peak Load Reduction” program. The program will pay up to $250 per peak kilowatt saved, plus a bonus for savings that can be delivered in time to help alleviate this summer’s anticipated peak shortage.

    • Publication date: 07/16/2001