Although the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its final rule establishing regional standards for air conditioners, heat pumps, and furnaces last October, the fight is not over yet. Both the Heating, Air-conditioning, and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) and Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) have filed petitions to intervene through the United States Court of Appeals against the DOE.
Although the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its final rule establishing regional standards for air conditioners, heat pumps, and furnaces last October, the fight is not over yet. Through the legal advocacy group Cause of Action, the Heating, Airconditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) has filed a petition to intervene through the United States Court of Appeals against the DOE.
Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) kicked off the 2012 AHR Expo on Sunday evening with its Icebreaker for members and guests.
The Heating, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) announced North American HVACR average distributor sales for November 2011 were down 1.7 percent from the same month last year. The dip is the first such decline since October 2010.
Bill Shaw, currently the president of the HARDI Foundation
Board of Trustees, and former Heating, Air-conditioning, and Refrigeration
Distributors International (HARDI) president introduced Mike Workman, professor
emeritus of Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University during opening
day of the 2011 HARDI Annual Conference. Workman’s topic, “Realizing 2006
Profitability with a 2012 Mindset,” started off with the keynote speaker asking
the questions, “Really?” and “How?”
The party started early and it looks like everybody is going to stay late. Welcome to the inaugural edition of Distribution Center magazine, the official publication of Heating, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI). The party started in Maui in late October when this new magazine was rolled out during the HARDI 2011 Annual Conference.
Moving from the world of HVAC wholesaling
into the plans and specification market - plan and spec for short - is not
always an easy transition. “It’s so different than a traditional wholesaling
model,” said Spencer Shaw, president of Bartos Industries, a Dallas-based
plan-and-spec firm. Bill Shaw, his father and the chief executive officer at
Bartos, agreed.
“Work hard. Play hard. That is the kind of schedule we have
provided for you this year,” said Talbot Gee, executive vice president and COO
of Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International
(HARDI) as he opened the 2011 Annual Conference at the Grand Wailea Resort in
the island paradise. Nearly 1,000 members traveled to Maui for the annual
conference.
Ken Perotta
of Crescent Parts & Equipment Co.
in St. Louis, views the HARDI
conference in Maui as an opportunity “to continue to form good, long-lasting
relationships with other wholesalers and vendors, sharing ideas and concerns,
and looking for opportunities within our industry.”
