James J. Siegel

Watsco, Inc. has signed a multi-year license agreement with Whirlpool Corp. to be the exclusive national distributor for a new line of central a/c and heating equipment carrying the Whirlpool brand name.

Hard Dollar Corp. will team up with the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) to provide estimating and bidding software to students participating in the ASC Reno 2002 Student Competition.

The 51st Annual Industrial Ventilation Conference, sponsored by the Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services, will be held Feb. 11-14, 2002, at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center at Michigan State University.

Recently, a settlement was reached involving the sale of Montana Power’s sale of its energy businesses.

Proe Power Systems (Thousand Oaks, CA) announced that it has been awarded an order for its recently developed Proe™ gas turbine recuperator by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

As of Dec. 17, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has withdrawn its indoor air quality (IAQ) proposal and is terminating the rulemaking proceeding, the agency announced.

Combined U.S. factory shipments of 333,414 central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps for November 2001 were up 1% compared to shipments from the same month in 2000, according to Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) statistics.

Rheem Manufacturing Co. and Paloma Industries have reached an agreement to acquire the Australian and Asian water heater business of Southcorp Holdings Ltd.

According to North American Technician Excellence (NATE), the overall passing rate for its exam is up.

ITT Industries’ Fluid Handling Division has formed a partnership with Ambian® Climate Technologies, LLC.