Blanton’s Heating, Air & Electrical announced that it has partnered with Troops to Trades, a nonprofit organization, in an effort to provide veterans, National Guard, and Reserve members with career placement options, training grants, and scholarships to help them find careers in HVAC and other trades.

Nick Hughes didn't know what career he wanted to pursue when he left the U.S. Navy three years ago. Now, he will soon graduate from the two-year applied science in air conditioning technology program at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN) as the recipient of the Post 9/11 Veterans Tools Award.

All Year Cooling, a south Florida air conditioning installation and repair company, announced it is expanding its workforce. The family-owned business is growing and is looking for qualified candidates to fill essential positions on its team.

Looking back on a refrigeration technology career stretching over six decades, Lynn Dison, an applications engineer with RAE Corp., said that he knew from the very start of it all that he would be at home in the industry for his entire career.

This heated job site storage box is designed specifically for contractors working in cold environments and is engineered to keep supplies at optimal temperatures. 

Efforts like the ‘Ride and Decide’ program in Tennessee are providing a much needed bridge between high school students and rewarding careers they may not have otherwise known were available.

Could sponsorship of sporting events be a way to gain the interest of young people and perhaps increase their awareness of the opportunities available to them in the HVACR industry? For example, with college football bowl season approaching, I’m thinking the industry should look into uniting to sponsor a bowl game.