CHICAGO — Danfoss hosted hundreds of guests at the Chicago House of Blues Sunday, Jan. 21, to establish a rhythm for AHR Expo attendees to carry throughout the three-day event. Forget Hannah, a cover band, rocked the house as industry experts from all facets belted out the tunes from their times ranging from Hootie & the Blowfish to R.E.M. to 4 Non Blondes to Jimmy Eat World.
CHICAGO - LG Electronics USA Inc. kicked off the AHR Expo in style at The Field Museum Sunday night in Chicago. The event featured Mick Ebeling, a film and TV producer, philanthropist, and technology trailblazer, as a guest speaker.
Trane®, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, is now offering Agility™, a new water-cooled centrifugal chiller product line. Agility is ideal for customers retrofitting existing space-limited commercial buildings for efficiency and sustainability.
Bristol Compressors International LLC and DHX Electric Machines Inc. today announced an exclusive global strategic partnership to develop HVAC/R compressor technology leveraged by ultra-high torque density electric motors with patented micro-feature enhanced "Direct Winding Heat Exchanger" DwHX™ cooling system. Through this partnership, Bristol and DHX will develop and deliver the most cost effective high efficiency compressors and systems in the industry.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) announced that Dean Brainard of NEXUS LLC., is facilitating the ACCA MIX Group networking event at the ACCA Annual Conference on February 13, 2018 in Washington D.C.
Superior Radiant Products (SRP) has entered into a partnership with UK heating and ventilation products manufacturer Powrmatic. The new venture gives Powrmatic exclusive rights to sell SRP's EUA and EUAV radiant tube heaters in the UK and an opportunity to sell throughout Europe.
The Clifford H. "Ted" Rees, Jr. Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation of the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), and the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA), announced scholarship awards totaling $74,000 to 40 students, including one military veteran program recipient, studying to become technicians in the HVACR and water heating industry.
Motion Industries Inc., a distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, announced that its service centers in Charleston, West Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; and Salt Lake City have become certified Rexnord partners in Falk gear drive repair. These three Motion Industries service centers each passed an extensive facility and process audit to verify repair execution to Rexnord’s original OEM work standards.
Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has acquired Energy Labs, a privately owned, U.S.-based manufacturer of custom air handling systems. The acquisition strengthens Vertiv’s position in the data center thermal management space and enables expansion into commercial and industrial segments with cooling solutions.