FYI: Breaking news from a variety of categories within the HVAC industry. Price increases, mergers and acquisitions, award winners and more are highlighted here each week.
COMMERCIAL CONTRACTORS
Progressive AE (Grand Rapids, Michigan) renamed Progressive companies.
MANUFACTURER
The harvest (Berkeley, California) Smart Thermal Battery is a finalist in the Reuters Global Energy Transition 2024 competition and the company has been named to Time magazine’s list of GreenTech Companies 2024.
Greenheck (Schofield, Wis.) announced the retirement of Tim KilgorePresident of Sales and Dave KallströmChief Marketing Officer. Your successors will be Matt Spink And MichaelJackson.
DISTRIBUTION PARTNER
DiversiTech Corp. (Duluth, Ga.) entered into a distribution partnership with the manufacturer of refrigeration products Sanhua (Hangzhou, China).
The Granite Group (Concord, NH) has signed a new agreement with flair (San Francisco) to distribute Flair's Smart Vent product line.
New York Electronics (Northvale, NJ) has entered into a distribution agreement with the manufacturer of electrical components Clip counter (Somerset, New Jersey).
ORGANISATIONS
The Association of the Electronic Components Industry (Alpharetta, Georgia) celebrates its 100th anniversary.
SOFTWARE
AxiomCloud (San Jose, California) has raised $5 million to deploy its artificial intelligence-based refrigerant leak detection module.
SERVICES FOR CONTRACTORS
Interplay Learning (Austin, Texas) was selected by Sonesta International Hotels Corp. (Newton, Mass.) to train engineers in safety and Occupational Safety and Health Administration compliance. Interplay was also named one of the world's most innovative companies by Fast Company.
