Watts Water Technologies buys Dormont Mfg. Co.
NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. Watts Water Technologies has acquired Dormont Manufacturing Co. in a stock purchase transaction. Dormont's annual revenue for 2005...
GAMA upgrades database for energy-efficient products
ARLINGTON, VA. GAMA has upgraded its recently launched database search Website for energy efficiency-certified products. This latest upgrade to Gas Appliance...
State's Herb Lindahl, 78
ASHLAND CITY, TENN. Herbert Lindahl, 78, one of the founders of State Industries, died Jan. 2. He is survived by his wife, Bonnie Chen Lindahl; brother,...
In Brief
The New Jersey Plumbing-Heating-Cooing Contractors and Pennsylvania PHCC are teaming up for their third annual two-state trade show May 19 at the Trump...
Sloan's Ren Owen, 60
FRANKLIN PARK, ILL. Ren Owen, Sloan Valve's vice president/business development, died Jan. 6. He was 60. Born Aug. 2, 1945, in Oak Park, Ill., to Ivor...
How you'll benefit from Home Depot's move
BY BOB MIODONSKI PUBLISHER AND EDITORIAL DIRECTOR WILL YOU SEE better service from your local wholesalers as a result of The Home Depot's blockbuster...
Calendar of Events - February 2006
2006 Calendar of Industry Events March Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors - National Association Legislative Conference March 16 Washington PHCC-NA...
Contractors and Vendors in the News - February 2006
Contractors Tom Maniuszko of Day-Night Plumbing & Heating Co. in Richmond Hill, N.Y., received the Quality Service Contractors' first Contractor of the...
Chinese stainless fittings flood market
U.S. producers of stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings in mid-February pointed to increasing volumes of low-priced imports from China as a serious...
Home Depot buys Hughes
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF ATLANTA The mid-January announcement that The Home Depot would buy Orlando, Fla.-based plumbing wholesaler Hughes...
Hydronic market to grow 4% to 5%
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF IF YOU LOOK only at boiler shipment statistics from the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association, it looks as...
Material prices, hurricanes to shape nonresidential sector
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR MECHANICAL contractors who work on the nonresidential side of the business will continue to see rising material prices in 2006....
Basnett P&H to receive 'Marketing Makeover'
LITTLETON, MASS. Basnett Plumbing & Heating will receive custom-designed marketing pieces and a customized marketing plan as the winner of the Marketing...
ServiceMaster may sell plumbing, HVAC operations
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR DOWNERS GROVE, ILL. In a little-noticed Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Nov. 4, 2005, ServiceMaster Corp. said it was...
Roto-Rooter's Top 5 recoveries of '05
CINCINNATI Roto-Rooter surveyed its field technicians throughout North America to find the strangest items recovered from pipes, toilets and trenches...
EMCOR launches missing children initiative
HARTFORD, CONN. Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, joined EMCOR...
New York, utility launch home energy program
UNIONDALE, N.Y. The Long Island Power Authority and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority have launched the Home Performance with...
Sprinklers more reliable now: NFPA report
QUINCY, MASS. The National Fire Protection Association released an updated report in mid-September with new evidence that it said shows the value of automatic...
Earnings can attract plumbing apprentices
(Fourth in a series) GERRY KENNEDY RECALLS an acquaintance telling him that his son, a second-year plumbing apprentice, already was earning more than...
Evolving like a startup
Forward thinking and ever adapting, 49-year-old Farmer & Irwin keeps its edge. BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF Steve Irwin adapts easily to change,...
Get ready to take advantage of change
WHAT'S MOST striking about Farmer & Irwin, our Mechanical Contractor of the Year, is how a company that turns 50 in October has been so adaptable to change....
Plumbing industry in '06 'a 7 or an 8'
BY WILLIAM ATKINSON SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR HIGH PRICES FOR metals and other raw materials, continuing consolidation of suppliers and more green building...
Farmer & Irwin: adapts to change
FARMER & IRWIN CORP., Riveria Beach, Fla., is nearly a half century old, but it exudes the energy of youth. Because of the dynamism and forward thinking...
Johnson Controls completes York acquisition
MILWAUKEE Johnson Controls in mid-December 2005 completed its acquisition of HVACR equipment and services supplier York International. Johnson Controls...
Comfortech RoadShows to offer tips to boost sales, people power
CLEVELAND CONTRACTOR and Contracting Business magazines will kick off their second annual Comfortech RoadShow Series Feb. 1 in Dallas. The six regional...
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