This paragraph is the only place you’ll read the phrase “COVID-19” in the entire issue of the June 2021 SNIPS Magazine. And that’s intentional. For more than a year, the pandemic has dominated conversations in the sheet metal industry and beyond. And in that chorus, we’ve left several stories fly under the radar.

Adding duct cleaning services to your existing HVAC company can be an extremely simple, inexpensive and very rewarding process.

HVAC company owners would do well to start diversifying their revenue streams with services like duct cleaning and service support. 

HVAC contractors and sheet metal workers should take advantage of the AHR Expo being canceled by strengthening online operations. 

When it comes to the family business, Joel Fishkind shares an uncomplicated approach that has sustained the company for many years.

An interview with Rossi Hardware founder Vic Petrossian on how one product changed HVAC airflow. 

At the helm of Standard Tinsmith and Roofer Supply for 50 years, Joel Fishkind now prepares his century-old family sheet metal business for a fourth act.

BILL BRADFORD IS A VETERAN OF THE SHEET METAL INDUSTRY IN MORE WAYS THAN MOST. Born and raised in North Side Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the city’s “Steel City” renaissance, Bradford graduated from high school June 1955 and immediately joined the Air Force that July. “I was 17 so my parents had to sign documents to get me in,” he remembers.

There are any number of good reasons NOT to upgrade your sheet metal machinery: timing, cost, confusion … cost. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” should never be one of them — especially after reading this issue of SNIPS.  

THE MOST OBVIOUS ANSWER TO A MANPOWER SHORTAGE IN THE SHEET METAL INDUSTRY IS ‘WOMANPOWER.’ BUT IS YOUR SHOP READY TO LEAN IN?