Foldcraft Manufacturing provides furniture to restaurants. It has spray booths where sealers are applied to the furniture. These areas need to maintain a certain dew point and temperature or else the sealer becomes contaminated from moisture. When problems were discovered, the company contacted Temp-Air.
How would you feel if technicians looking for a job came to you with high ethical standards, superior work skills, a lifelong commitment to education, and pride in the dignity of work? In looking at the workforce of the future that might have such values, one place to take a look is SkillsUSA.
Some areas of the world use more air-to-air heat pumps, while others use more geothermal systems. Still others are more heavily into mini-splits. From North America to Europe to Asia/Oceania, there is a lot going on in the world of heat pumps.
Why do some contractors seem to almost effortlessly rake in millions of dollars in revenue while others struggle to just get by? What is the secret to perfecting the art of making money every day?
An Emerson Climate Technologies survey shows that while a majority of HVAC contractors (77 percent) plan to convert to 13 SEER by January 2006, 12 percent of the contractors surveyed still plan to aggressively sell 10 SEER after the transition deadline.
Approximately 50 people, including one from faraway Alaska, joined Alan Mercurio and Scott Lutz at the grand opening of the new Oil Tech Talk Center in Hamburg, Pa., June 24.
"Advertising done properly solves problems," said Mike Morosi, the CEO of MultiMedia Advertising LLC. "Advertising done improperly becomes the problem." Morosi spoke to a group of contractors at the Associated Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors (APHCC) of Texas at the group's annual convention.
Jim Leighty suggested to plumbing and heating contractors that the public's perception of them is that they're all millionaires because they own a business. If that's the case, audience members needn't worry about their financial futures, Leighty joked. But such is not the case.
In its infancy, portable cooling was the use of small, portable units used primarily to meet unplanned emergency situations. Later, larger, more sophisticated pieces of equipment have been developed, for meeting a variety of planned requirements. Here are a couple of case studies.