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According to the “Heating Equipment Market in the U.S.” study from The Freedonia Group, forced-air heating is the preferred comfort delivery method in the U.S. Of those, warm-air furnaces comprise the vast majority of the overall demand with 64 percent of the total value of sales in 2016.

The Whalen Co. was commended for making a difference in the Talbot County (Maryland) community at the Talbot County Business Appreciation Breakfast. This year’s Business Appreciation Breakfast awards reflected a community impact theme and the many ways that a company can impact a community through work.

Goettl Air Conditioning donated $2,200 worth of professional tools to U.S. veterans who recently graduated from the College of Southern Nevada Air Conditioning Technology Program. The tools of the trade will help them start their careers in the industry.

The home automation system market is expected to be valued at $79.57 billion by 2022 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3 percent between 2017 and 2022.

The Building Performance Institute Inc. (BPI) announced that a substantive revision to ANSI/BPI-1200-S-2015: “Standard for Basic Analysis of Buildings” is now available for public comment.

Bitzer is warning users against imitation oils. In Vietnam and Korea, counterfeiters partly disguised their imitations with the logo and name of the specialist for refrigeration compressors. These forgeries can lead to compressor breakdown, in contrast to the use of Bitzer original refrigeration oils.

Microf LLC, a provider of residential lease-to-own products for the HVAC industry, raised $96.7 million in growth capital. The combined debt and equity raise is funded through a new $40 million committed senior debt facility provided by Atalaya Capital Management with an additional $40 million accordion feature; a new $10 million senior debt facility provided by Microf’s existing lender, BrandBank; and $6.67 million in equity provided by current equity investors.

The city of St. Clair Shores is officially the first city in Michigan to take advantage of a law introduced in July 2016 that allows local governments to make facility improvements leveraging flexible financing programs that are not considered debt. Through the Tax-Exempt Lease Purchase (TELP) program, St. Clair Shores will partner with Johnson Controls on city-wide upgrades, including HVAC, building automation, lighting, and water improvements.

ClearSign Combustion Corp., a provider of industrial combustion technologies that help to reduce emissions and improve efficiency, announced it has a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with one of China’s largest providers of residential and commercial heating services to run a pilot test with the goal of demonstrating ClearSign’s Duplex technology as a candidate to achieve low emissions levels in the company’s boilers.