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.

ACQUISITIONS

Southeast Mechanical (Winston-Salem, N.C.) acquired Climate Design Home Services (Clearwater, Fla.).

Holland Pump Co. (West Palm Beach, Fla.) acquired Florida Dewatering (Tampa, Fla.).

MANUFACTURERS

Weidmuller USA (Richmond, Va.) named Randy Sadler president and CEO.

Enervex Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.) promoted Young Han to vice president of engineering and research and design, and Kevin Hite to vice president of operations. In addition, Kyle Harvey joined the company as vice president of sales.

Nibco Inc. (Elkhart, Ind.) is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year.

MANUFACTURERS’ REPS

Steffes Corp. (Dickinson, N.D.) signed three new manufacturers’ representatives to support a new product, a heat-pump water-heating system. The three are: Delta Q Inc. (Los Angeles), Osborne Co. Inc. (San Francisco), and Hurley Engineering (Seattle).

Refrigerated Solutions Group (Hudson, Wis.) signed on a new representative for California and Nevada, Premier Marketing Group Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

ORGANIZATIONS

HVAC Excellence (Mount Prospect, Ill.) awarded Certified Master HVACR Educator status to Jon Davis of the College of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas).

The Association for Smarter Homes & Buildings (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) appointed Chris Megede, chief technology officer at Delta Controls Inc. (Surrey, British Columbia, Canada), to its board of directors.

CONTRACTOR SERVICES

BrainBox AI (Montreal) acquired the automation division of Turntide Technologies (Sunnyvale, Calif.).