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Ideal Boilers clinches national award
27 January 2014 Ideal Boilers has won a Product of the Year Award. The Logic+ scooped the prize in the Household Boiler category, which was announced at the 10th anniversary ceremony in Trafalgar Squ...
Fan company ABB launches ‘Authorised Value Provider’ program
27 January 2014 ABB has amalgamated its UK variable-speed drives and electric motors networks into a single brand identity, to create what it claims is the UK’s largest technical channel network for drives and motors. The former ABB Drives Alliance and ABB Motor Service Partner networks are now part of the, a global initiative that over time will encompass more third party companies selling...
AHR Expo 2014 Innovation Awards Announced
Jan 27, 2014 A geothermal heat pump from WaterFurnace, variable speed scroll compressors from Emerson Climate Technologies, and hybrid electric heat pump water heaters from Rheem Manufacturing were al...
Ikea More than Doubles Size of Biggest Commercial Rooftop So
Jan 27, 2014 Home furnishings and appliances retailer Ikea has brought online the expanded solar energy system atop a Denver-area store. The array atop the store in the town of Centennial was already Colorado’s largest single-use commercial building rooftop array when installation of additional solar panels began in the summer of 2013. The expansion has now more than doubled the size of the origi...
Google Moves into Home HVAC/Home Automation with Nest Acquis
Jan 27, 2014 Google agreed to buy Nest Labs, Inc. for $3.2 billion in cash, maker of programmable thermostats and smoke/carbon monoxide (CO) alarms. Nest says its mission is to reinvent "unloved" home products. The company launched in 2011 with the Nest Learning Thermostat, which can be controlled from a smartphone, and is designed to "learn" the homeowner’s schedule and adjust HVAC operation acc...
New Commercial 7.5-10 Ton Copeland Scroll(TM) Variable Speed
St. Louis, January 21, 2014 -- Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc., a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), has expanded its Copeland Scroll(TM) variable speed product offering with the launch of a new comm...
Emerson Announces New Wi-Fi Enabled Thermostat
New Sensi(TM) thermostat offers contractors simple set-up, unique branding opportunities St. Louis, January 21, 2014-- Emerson today introduced the Sensi(TM) thermostat, which features remote a...
Emerson Announces Next Generation 2-5 Ton Copeland Scroll(TM
St. Louis, January 20, 2014 -- Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc., a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), announced the launch of its latest generation Copeland Scroll(TM) variable speed compressor and mo...
Tim Wentz Is Elected First Mechanical Contractor Officer of
27 - January - 2014 Rockville, Md. -- Tim Wentz, educator and recipient of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America’s (MCAA’s) Distinguished Service Award, was elected ASHRAE’s treasurer for 2014-2015 during the ASHRAE 2014 Winter Conference. He will automatically become the association’s president-elect in 2015-2016 and will assume the ASHRAE presidency in 2016-2017, the first mechanical...
Refrigerated Display Case Market to Reach $16.3 Billion by 2
27 - January - 2014 Albany, N.Y. -- According to a new market report “Refrigerated Display Cases (Plug-in and Remote) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast, 2013 - 2019,” published by Transparency Market Research, the global market for refrigerated display cases is forecast to reach $16.3 billion by 2019. This market growth is driven by increased demand for r...
