COLUMBUS, Ohio — Heating, Air-conditioning, and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) recently released its monthly TRENDS report, showing average sales for HARDI distributor members increased 2.3 percent in January 2015.

The annualized growth has been between 6 and 7 percent throughout 2014. The metric begins the New Year struggling to maintain the lower edge of the range with 5.9 percent growth for the past 12 months.