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Although the election is over eight months away, the Sheet Metal Workers union has already picked its candidate for president: Hillary Clinton. 

HVAC construction contractor Cool Zone Inc. knew cleaning and sealing the ductwork of a 27,000-square-foot facility in south Florida wouldn’t be simple. 

Winners of the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust’s first safety design contest include a union coordinator from Pittsburgh, an instructor from Missouri and a sheet metal worker from Arizona.

Contracting companies, union business managers, local presidents and trainers are among the recipients of the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust’s 2015 safety awards.

Lincoln Electric Co. has invested $30 million in a new 130,000-square-foot welding technology center on its Euclid, Ohio, campus. The center will focus on the training of welding teachers and industry leaders to meet demand for industry vocational training.

Airflow velocity in a residential HVAC market duct system is an important design consideration.

When you decide it’s time to part with your collection of say, baseball cards, it’s usually not too difficult to find a buyer.

 If the collection is any good, dealers will often buy the whole thing, knowing that they’ll be able to make much more selling it off card by card. Or you can place an ad in a collector magazine or try online auction sites such as eBay.

Winter storms battering much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic were no match for the 2016 AHR Expo, which drew almost 61,000 to Orlando, Florida.

Your HVAC market sheet metal supplier operates on razor-thin margins. The result is an ultra-competitive environment and this intense pressure to earn a profit can lead to less-than-ethical selling behavior by some suppliers.