LAKELAND, Fla. - ECR Technologies Inc. will host its first international sales meeting Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2005, in Lakeland, Fla. Scheduled to attend are independent representative organizations from throughout the United States and Canada. The two-day session at the conference center of Lakeland Linder Regional Airport will inform ECR's sales representatives about new products and applications of the company's EarthLinked® geothermal heat pump product line.

Keynote speaker for the event will be Jack DiEnna, key accounts director of the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium in Washington, D.C. Other featured speakers include industry experts on hydronic radiant heating, HVAC sales and marketing, and geothermal drilling equipment.

ECR Technologies manufactures Direct GeoExchange heating and cooling systems for the residential and light commercial HVAC market. The units feature heavy-duty copper tubes containing a nontoxic refrigerant that are buried below the surface of the earth to capture heat in the winter and provide cooling in summer.