With 80% of its annual sales volume in commercial and industrial ventilation, Poynter Sheet Metal is on a mission to diversify its revenue streams.

With the opportunity to build on a blank slate, Hooper has dedicated more space to prefabrication for ductwork and other sheet metal projects.

SNIPS Sheet Metal Industry Icon for 2021 is David Daw, an inventor who’s been innovating in the HVAC fabrication industry for over 50 years. 

Emphasizing company culture leads to greater worker retention and training, says Acosta Sheet Metal VP of Operations and Marketing.

To showcase and celebrate the best applications of copper in North America, the Copper Development Association (CDA) awarded 12 innovative copper building projects in the United States and Canada.

In July, Sweden-based SSAB Oxelösund rolled the first steel produced using Hydrogen Breakthrough Ironmaking Technology, or HYBRIT.

Testing and balancing skills are in demand. But at the start of Jack Webster’s career 50 years ago, he says those who specialized in balancing were often called “prima donnas,” because they didn't get their hands dirty.

After SNIPS Magazine sat down with testing and balancing expert Jack Webster earlier in the year, we decided to talk to him again in our first installment of Tin Knocker Tales, a new podcast series.

This paragraph is the only place you’ll read the phrase “COVID-19” in the entire issue of the June 2021 SNIPS Magazine. And that’s intentional. For more than a year, the pandemic has dominated conversations in the sheet metal industry and beyond. And in that chorus, we’ve left several stories fly under the radar.

SNIPS’ new editor brings experience from ag and print journalism to new role.