COLUMBUS, Ohio—HARDI recently announced its speaker lineup for the fourth and final Focus Conference of 2015, Operations & Logistics, which takes place Sept. 20 - 22, in Baltimore.

The Live-Fire event featured hands-on product demonstrations and served as a new equipment showcase for its contractor customers.

An expansion of production into an existing company-owned plant in Greenfield, Indiana, brings the total number of DeWalt plants in the U.S. to seven.

Available on 2- to 6-ton horizontal and vertical Versatec Base, Versatec Ultra Envision2 Compact, and 7- to 25-ton horizontal and vertical Envision XL products, this new option allows the use of a building’s interior loop water to provide “free” cooling. 

During the symposium, participants explored new opportunities in building integration strategy opened by developments in Internet building interface and sensor technology, experiments in community-scale building performance initiatives, and often-overlooked dynamics in building-grid management.

Highlights from 2014 include a year-over-year increase in the number of Hypertherm associates volunteering in the community, a decrease in emissions and landfill waste, and the expansion of the company’s on-site wellness facility.

The CHP Awards were presented to Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; Pepco Energy Systems, Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Thermal Energy Corp. (TECO), Houston.

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Wiegmann Associates names Ashley Campbell project engineer; Bahnson Inc. celebrates 100^th anniversary; more HVAC commercial contractor news briefs.

TruTech Tools Ltd. acquired FieryChill Inc. and added a sales counter to its Akron, Ohio, office.