Who’s buying the Tempstar Homeowners’ Extended Labor Plan (HELP)? According to an article in The Dealer Star, Tempstar’s dealer newsletter, most customers who purchase Tempstar equipment from Bettendorf Heating & A/C, in Bettendorf, IA, are buying it.
G. R. Sponaugle & Sons Inc., Harrisburg, PA, has announced that, due to continued and rapid growth in the various sectors that it serves, it plans to relocate to larger facilities, basically doubling its operating space.
PowerCold Corp. has announced the acquisition of Applied Building Technology Inc. (ABT), a St. Petersburg, FL-based supplier of standardized heating, ventilation, and air conditioning packages for standard-sized commercial buildings such as national chain businesses.
This year the White House Press Corps covering President George Bush’s 30-day August working vacation in Crawford, TX, found themselves in a cooler and more comfortable setting for press conferences than last year. The reason? Two 20-ton Tempstar commercial air conditioners, installed by local contractor Abel Service Co., in the Crawford Elementary School gymnasium used for those press conferences.
Foster Products Corp. recently announced information about its indoor air quality (IAQ) product line. The company said its line of products “provide a long-term solution to problems associated with [poor IAQ] by killing and preventing the re-growth of odor-causing mold, mildew, bacteria, and fungus.”
Rich Gatschenberger, owner of Gatschenberger Heating & A/C, Sherman, IL, runs a two-man shop. His business is doing well, he notes, thanks to his local distributor and his right-hand man.
With 150 customers attending its 6th annual engineering conference, heating and air conditioning distributor Standard Air & Lite, of Pittsburgh, PA, didn’t bother bringing any commercial equipment to show. Instead, according to Ed Szpara, P.E., the distributor’s manager of systems and engineering, Carrier Corporation’s new Mobile Innovation Center — an 18-wheeled, self-contained, traveling exhibition trailer — rolled into town for the September conference.
The construction of two new state-of-the-art educational laboratories is near completion at the Antelope Valley College in Los Angeles County. Completion of the refrigeration and HVAC labs, which will open inside the newly constructed Technical Education Building on campus, is expected in early 2003.
Florida Realtor, a business magazine for the Florida real estate industry, has raised concern about mold, including as it relates to air conditioning and ventilation.
Mel Watters runs a small, three-man residential service and replacement operation. The owner of Watters Refrigeration, Heating & Appliance, Greenleaf, KS, just celebrated 32 years in the business, but figures it is never too late to try new ways of doing business.
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