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.

MANUFACTURERS

Mulcahy Company (Eagan, Minnesota) named Rob Grady, current executive vice president, as the company’s new president.

Motion Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Alabama) acquired TRC Hydraulics (Inman, South Carolina) and F&L Industrial Solutions Inc. (Poway, California).

ServiceTitan (Glendale, California) named four finalists for the annual Titan of the Year: A&A Plumbing (San Antonio), Cody & Sons Plumbing, Heating & Air (Dallas), Hurlburt Heating & Plumbing (Durand, Wisconsin), and ProSkill Plumbing, Heating & Air (Phoenix).

Nelumbo (Hayward, California) was awarded $2 million in funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to research anti-ice materials for deployment on industrial scale refrigeration systems.

MANUFACTURERS REP

Cyrus Gardner

HVAC RepCo (Memphis, Tennessee) named Cyrus Gardner as territory manager for Central and South Florida.

RectorSeal (Houston) named Mondale and Associates Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) as its manufacturers’ representative for the territories of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and eastern South Dakota for HVACR products.

RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTORS

Conditioned Air Company (Fort Myers, Florida) moved into its newly constructed operations center in Fort Myers, Florida.

ORGANIZATIONS

The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) named Matt Levinson as ACCA’s new member services coordinator and David Bixby as manager of codes and standards.