ST. LOUIS — Emerson (NYSE: EMR) recently hosted its 10th day-long E360 Forum in Newark, New Jersey, providing more than 100 commercial refrigeration industry stakeholders with a wealth of insights on food retail and foodservice regulatory concerns and emerging trends.
Kennesaw, Ga. — Packard Inc. has announced new partnerships with Regal, adding their extensive list of Marathon and Browning products to the Packard distribution centers (Atlanta and Indianapolis). These partnerships add to a list of Regal brands that Packard currently sells, such as Century, Elco, Fasco, Genteq and Morrill Motors.
Larson Electronics has released a step- down portable power distribution panel for operators needing to operate 120-volt equipment while only having 480 volts-electrical current available.
HARDI distributors have mastered the art of change. They have shifted their business model from relationship and local inventory to value-creation and problem solving. They have streamlined and focused their business to match the new economy.
ASCO has introduced brass valves that comply with Federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requirements for lead-free components. The lead-free brass constructions are available on the company’s most popular lines of general service solenoid valves.
New 10-ton XX packaged heat pumps and 3- to 5-ton ZQ 14 SEER air conditioning units have been added to the Coleman Peak rooftop replacement solution from Johnson Controls Inc. The units feature an exact-fit replacement design that matches them to footprints of other manufacturers’ units and reduces installation time, cost, and complexity by eliminating the need for a curb adapter.
A forecast in this day and age is actually always going to be wrong because the reality is complex. On a global scale, one needs to conduct economic forecasts that will almost never hit the true outcome. This is similar to sales forecasts and logistics forecasts that depend on other factors to come true. They will be off. But that’s OK. Because one who views a forecast only as something that absolutely has to come true does not understand forecasting.
Friedrich Air Conditioning Co. has unveiled a new solution for the hospitality and multiunit housing industries with the launch of its VRP® (Variable Refrigerant Packaged) Heat Pump system.
It’s not too late, either. I’m exhorting anyone reading this blog to take a deep breath and then ask yourself this question: Why didn’t I sign up for the HARDI annual conference? (If you did, you can stop reading now and go to your favorite sports or news station.)