Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $6,078,686 to Missouri to weatherize an estimated 1,726 low-income homes.
Advanced Data Exchange (ADX) has announced that Owens Corning, a major manufacturer of building materials and composite materials, has selected ADX to provide supply chain connectivity services to more than 1,000 of Owens Corning’s small and mid-size suppliers.
Tecogen, a manufacturer of commercial and industrial natural gas-powered chillers, has been selected to provide an alternative source of ice-making for hockey games in Broome County (NY) Veterans Memorial Arena.
During the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, UT from Feb. 8-24, natural gas supplied by locally headquartered Questar Corp. will keep the Olympic Flame going and also keep the competitors warm.
At its annual editorial breakfast press conference at the 2002 International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo), John Hazen White Jr., president of Taco, Inc. (Cranston, RI), introduced the company’s CI and FI end-suction pumps, the self-lubricating 006-IFC circulator with patented integral flow check, and TacoNet® 7.0 product-selection software.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced preliminary data showing that productivity increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.5% in the 4th quarter of 2001. This was the largest gain in over a year.
Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate both failed to gain passage of their versions of economic stimulus amendments to be added to H.R. 622, an adoption tax credit bill.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,653,000 for December. This is a 4% increase over the revised November rate of 1,595,000, and 6% above the December 2000 rate of 1,553,000.
