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CHICAGO — Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) has signed on as an Alliance Partner with Industrial Careers Pathway® (ICP) effective Jan. 1.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Friedrich Air Conditioning, the San Antonio manufacturer of room air conditioners, announces a new partnership with United Components Inc., the northeast–based multisalesperson HVACR agency.
BALTIMORE — In May 2015, Danfoss, a manufacturer of high-efficiency electronic and mechanical components and controls for air-conditioning, heating, refrigeration, industrial and water systems, finalized the acquisition of global AC drives manufacturer Vacon.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) released its monthly TRENDS report, showing average sales for HARDI distributor members increased by 8.2 percent in December 2015.
GLASGOW, Scotland — U.S. chiller manufacturer Azane’s holding company, the industrial refrigeration and heating group Star Refrigeration, has appointed Andy Pearson, Ph.D. as group managing director. He has been working for Star since 1986 and has recently been promoted from group engineering director, a role he has held since 2010.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Thermostat Recycling Corp. (TRC) announced that Johnstone Supply, US Air Conditioning Distributors, Johnson Supply and Auer Steel have been named the 2015 Big Man on Planet (BMOP) winners. The annual competition among Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) members took place May 1 – Oct. 31 and recovered 432 pounds of mercury from collected thermostats, a 71 percent increase from 2014.
Last summer, HARDI held a casting call for the industry’s top performers and rising stars younger than 40 years of age. HARDI members across the country nominated the top talent among wholesalers, manufacturers and affiliated vendors to create the first-ever list of HARDI’s best and brightest.
For the misguided readers who tell me that you actually read my columns, it’s probably occurred to you that I find behavioral economics fascinating. Had this discipline existed when I was an undergraduate, I conceivably could have gone in a different direction. (For those who read the Freakonomics Fellows or Malcolm Gladwell’s books, you understand.)