I've dreamt about it, planned for it, designed for it, changed it a million times, and was never quite sure it would happen. Getting out of the trenches gave me more time so I could design and build the perfect beast in my home.

Amid this global pandemic, manufacturers of all shapes and strides find themselves adjusting and adapting to changing times. For the boiler industry, this is an especially critical time as the products and services that come from our manufacturers are not only essential, they are lifesaving. 

Presentations will focus on advancements in material development, research findings, case studies, non-destructive testing (NDT) methods and other areas concerning plastic pipe.

As we’ll see from our interview with William Montgomery, director of national accounts for Hydrolevel Co., not many companies can claim to have started out quite like Hydrolevel did.

Robust. Now there’s a word you don’t hear much in the U.S. Maybe on a bag of coffee, but that’s about it. However, robust is a word we heard often from about 10 people we met during our tour of the Ideal Boiler manufacturing plant in in the UK city of Hull, about a three-hour train ride north of London.

It started innocently enough. It was just one every now and then. Until it became a daily routine — an obsession, if you will. Once I had one, I couldn’t stop myself. I had to have more.

Fink, a veteran of the plastics pipe industry, previously served as the chairman of the PPI Board of Directors from 2017 to 2019, and has held a number of other leadership positions within the organization.

Taking place in February instead of January, the 2020 AHR Expo heads to sunny Florida this year. The expo will take place February 3-5, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.

Before staying at a hotel, a friend of mine always checks the online guest reviews. They tend to be frank. I can imagine that some hotel managers rejoice (or cringe) at the honesty. 

PHC News made its way to the Big Apple last August to attend the rebirth of Wetstock. The sold-out industry event intended to gather contractors for casual and authentic networking came back with a bang after a break.