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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.
 

The NCB-E is part of an NCB Series that, as one unit, is capable of providing a whole-house heating system while also providing the domestic hot water output of a stand-alone, tankless water heater. 

HZ Series geothermal heat pumps feature a two-way communication system and display performance/diagnostic data in plain English while the gateway customizes operation for efficiency and comfort. 

The NP Multi Flow Center is specifically designed for applications with three to five geothermal heat pumps with factory-assembled heat pump manifolds, isolation valves, Ts, and flush ports.