For your information news briefs from a wide variety of categories within the HVAC industry. Price increases, mergers and acquisitions, award winners, and more are highlighted here each week.

PRICE INCREASE

Daikin Applied Americas Inc. (Minneapolis) announced a price increase up to 4 percent on all applied and commercial equipment, effective April 1.

COMMERCIAL CONTRACTOR

Pueblo Mechanical & Controls LLC (Tucson, Arizona), the HVAC platform of private equity firm Huron Capital, acquired Newgaard Mechanical Inc. (Chandler, Arizona) and CFM Mechanical LLC (Phoenix).

MANUFACTURERS

Timothy Frost

Modine Mfg. Co. (Racine, Wisconsin) named Timothy Frost vice president, Commercial and Industrial Solutions - Americas Coils & Coolers.  He is responsible for coordinating production operations, material planning, distribution, sales, marketing,  quality assurance, and more.

DISTRIBUTORS

Joe Limbaugh

Motion Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Alabama) named Joe Limbaugh senior vice president of supply chain, operations support, and marketing.

Winsupply Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) announced the opening of a new regional distribution center in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2019.

MANUFACTURER’S REPS

The Beene & Jennings Co. (Euless, Texas) will represent General Filters Inc. (Novi, Michigan) in Texas and Oklahoma.

Mechanical Equipment Sales Co. Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) will represent Adey Innovation Ltd. (Pittsburgh) in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

Appalachian Sales Group (Greer, South Carolina) will represent Navac Inc. (Lyndhurst, New Jersey) in North Carolina and South Carolina.

ORGANIZATIONS

Nick Benton

Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) named Nick Benton director of talent development. He previously served as manager of training and HR solutions.

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and LonMark Intl. announced ANSI/CTA-709.7 LON IP is now approved as a new American National Standard by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

SOFTWARE

FieldEdge (Atlanta) announced a partnership with GreenSky LLC (Atlanta) in order to fully implement time-saving, paperless, and user-friendly financing solutions to expedite the process and better serve the financial needs of customers.

Publication date: 2/11/2019

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