Sheet Metal Fabrication

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In the face of stubbornly high industry unemployment rates and a construction market that remains slow, it’s understandable why so many sheet metal and HVAC contractors are in survival mode.

When church officials at Saints Anne & Joachim Catholic Church in Fargo, N.D., added a sanctuary as part of the final part of a multiphase building plan, they requested an HVAC system that churchgoers would not see, hear or feel.

DALLAS — Organizers of the 2013 AHR Expo say it was a show of records.

The Associated General Contractors of America has reported that construction employment was down in 28 states from September 2011 to September 2012. 

The new Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 building in St. Louis was previously an abandoned boiler factory.

LAS VEGAS — The sheet metal industry continues to struggle, but SMACNA doesn’t want its members sitting idly by waiting for a turnaround.

LAS VEGAS — If manufacturing executives were depressed over Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential election a week earlier, it didn’t show at Fabtech. 

Mestek Machinery held an open house Oct. 5, 2012, at its Cedar Rapids, Iowa, facility to mark Manufacturing Day.

Metalcon International returned to the Chicago area Oct. 9-11, 2012, with a new look and format.