When mechanical contractor Summer Breeze Comfort Systems decided it wanted to create a specialty niche for itself in indoor air quality work, the 17-year-old company made a financial commitment that’s now paying dividends. 

The Florida Roofing & Sheet Metal Contractors Association’s 96th annual convention takes place June 27-29 at the Gaylord Palms resort.

There are dozens of data center cooling methods. But multitenant, shared location data center operator Involta LLC said it believes its HVAC design team has developed one of the industry’s most efficient concepts. 

Allies have been pressing U.S. officials to make the tariff exemptions permanent — a move the White House has resisted as it continues to seek an updated North American Free Trade Agreement. 

A group of industrial manufacturers are banding together in an effort to kill the tariffs on steel and aluminum enacted by the Trump administration.

The complaint, filed this week with the World Trade Organization in Geneva, says that the 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent levy on imports of aluminum were improper.

With the recent political whirlwind that has permeated the HVAC industry, many suppliers, manufacturers and contractors are in a state of flux. We are all waiting to see how things play out in the metals market after Trump administration’s March 8 announcement of new import tariffs on steel and aluminum.

An employee at a Tennessee-based welding equipment manufacturer is now chairman of an industry association.

Like a peanut butter cup from Reese’s or corned beef and cabbage, Mestek Machinery’s introduction four years ago of a machine that combined two major ductwork fabrication functions was a natural, company officials say.

The report covers the sheet metal forming market in North America, Europe and Asia, with special emphasis on Japan, the U.S. and China.