The 50^th annual SkillsUSA Championships welcomed more than 16,000 students, teachers, and industry partners, June 24-25 at the Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC) and nearby sites during the weeklong 51^st National Leadership and Skills Conference.

The gathering, which welcomed 100 Alliance and 200 Roundtable members from the U.S., Canada, and Australia, featured nationally acclaimed speakers, industry experts, and highly successful contractors.

Two articles I recently read brought me to a similar recognition, but most aptly stated by Joseph Schumpeter,The Economist, March 14, 2015 — “People still greet each other by handing out little rectangles made from dead trees rather than tapping their phones together.

There is no way that refrigerant reclamation can work the way the EPA has mishandled the program during the past few years. Businesses must be able to make money, or they will fail. Refrigerant reclaim is a business that is being hindered by government actions, or the lack of more appropriate actions.

Contractors asked six HVAC manufacturing executives questions at ACCA’s 2014 CEO Roundtable forum, sponsored by The ACHR NEWS.

The variable-refrigerant flow (VRF) slice of the U.S. HVAC market was worth approximately $382.9 million in 2012, up a mere 23 percent from $311.7 in 2011, according to LG Electronics executives at a company press event held in October 2013. 

WaterFurnace celebrated its 25th annual Supplier Golf Outing Sept. 5, at the Brookwood Golf Club, Fort Wayne, Ind. 

HVAC professionals and other interested parties found their way 20 minutes southwest of the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Intl. Airport through Chattahoochee Hill Country on May 31, to witness the ribbon-cutting ceremony amid the quiet pine woods of central Georgia. 

Gree is a Chinese manufacturing company that produces duct-free, through-the-wall, and window air conditioning, packaged terminal air conditioners (PTAC), dehumidifiers, and portable cooling products.