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

RectorSeal (Houston) acquired PSP Products (Manassas, Va.).

RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTORS

High Five Plumbing, Heating & Cooling (Golden, Colo.) was named to the Inc. 5000 list by the magazine Inc. (New York).

MANUFACTURERS

Koch Filter (Louisville, Ky.) hired Mitch Goss as strategic account manager.

RefrigiWear (Dahlonega, Ga.), named Leigh Stadelmeier as vice president of B2B outdoor sales.

CoolSys (Brea, Calif.) named Danny Rodriguez as chief information officer and William Schmidt as general counsel.

Daikin Comfort Technologies North America Inc. (Waller, Texas) was awarded a $39 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, D.C.) for the expansion of inverter heat pump manufacturing.

Enervex Inc. named Simon Mandeville as director of sustainability.

MANUFACTURERS’ REPS

Summit Refrigerants (Humble, Texas) named CK Sales (Long Beach Township, N.J.) as its representative for the New England states and Upstate and Western New York.

DISTRIBUTORS

Mid-City Supply Co. Inc. (Elkhart, Ind.) completed a $1.6 million expansion and renovation of its location in Michigan City, Indiana.

ORGANIZATIONS

The American Supply Association (Itasca, Ill.) gave its Fred V. Keenan Lifetime Achievement Award to Brian Tuohey, president of The Collins Companies (East Windsor, Conn.) and Jim Lewis, vice president and general manager of business services at Kohler Co. (Kohler, Wis.).