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Carrier has announced the installation of a Carrier Infinity™ HVAC system awarded to a North Carolina family who won the company’s social media sweepstakes. The winner, Jacquelyn Sammons of Concord, North Carolina, received a complete Infinity heating and cooling system.

Carrier has announced the introduction of a new line of 14 SEER air conditioning and heat pump units designed to provide advanced corrosion prevention and protection in coastal climates.

The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) has announced the launch of a new blog to help educate homeowners about the health, safety, and energy saving benefits of home performance upgrades.

Responses from a 2016 AHR Expo survey sent to 1,300 exhibitors reveal optimism for the coming year among HVACR manufacturers. Results were compared to a similar survey sent out last year that gauged exhibitors’ expectations for 2015.

ECR International, an HVAC manufacturer offering products under the brand names Dunkirk, Utica Boilers, Olsen, Airco, Pennco, RetroAire, Argo, and EMI, announced that its shareholders have approved the sale of the company to BDR Thermea, a Dutch heating products group headquartered in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Currently, 9.4 million women-owned businesses are operating in the U.S. in 2015 — employing more than 7.9 million people and generating nearly $1.5 trillion in revenue.

Training is for dogs, dancing bears, and little kids who crap in their pants. Is that the way we think of apprentices? Maybe that’s the real problem.

HVAC contractors, especially those in the residential installation and service market, really have to pay special attention to how their technicians interact with customers. One bad experience could terminate a potential long-term customer-contractor relationship.

Fuller is service manager at Logan A/C & Heat Services in Dayton, Ohio.

Industry figures are estimates that are derived from the best available figures supplied by a sample of AHRI member companies.