ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. — A.O. Smith, a water heater manufacturer and top employer in middle Tennessee, supported Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 21-26, 2016.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Milwaukee Tool has announced a premier partnership with the Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA), a trade association representing 1,834 union member firms in 103 chapters throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia and Brazil.
KENT, Wash. — ECCO Manufacturing™ has appointed Sterling Hicks operations manager.
Hicks brings more than 30 years of HVAC manufacturing and management experience to the team and has a proven record of providing excellent customer service and quality. His background includes production scheduling and management, lean manufacturing, financial accountability and senior management.
ATLANTA — DiversiTech Corp., a manufacturer and supplier of HVACR parts and accessories, has purchased Alltemp Products Co. Ltd., an HVAC parts supplier serving Canada. Founded in 1970 and based in Pickering, Ontario, Alltemp serves Canadian wholesalers, offering a wide array of parts and supplies for HVAC equipment, electrical motors and pumps.
Wholesale distributors are increasingly involved with selling indoor air purification products. Beyond good HEPA filtration, which continues to be a recommended practice, indoor air purifiers solve a number of health-related and comfort issues faced at home and work.
The Master Group is one of the largest independent HVACR distributors in eastern Canada. This acquisition increases the number of Master’s points of sales to a total of nine in southwestern Ontario and to 29 in Canada.
At a signing ceremony on July 30 in a room filled with veterans, military personnel and supporters in Richboro, Pennsylvania, Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) entered into an agreement, creating the association’s largest philanthropic partnership to date.
In my last article, I proposed some questions every distributor should contemplate as they move their business forward and offered up a list of 50 more that they could have just by asking for it. The response was fantastic. Most likely, because we were in the question mode, at least a half dozen distributors hit me with their questions. It was thought-provoking.
We’re HVAC system specialists, pure and simple. We strive to offer unparalleled technical assistance from beginning to end. This is one of our key core values — and differentiators such as tech assistance and training have been peeled away due to lower margins. Because of our focus on systems, we have been able to enhance our technical offerings.