Lochinvar and European partner EC POWER officially launched the XRGI25, a cogeneration system for the North American market, during a press conference, Jan. 15, at Lochinvar’s booth at this year’s AHR Expo in Atlanta.

Toward the back of InSinkErator’s new gleaming steel-and-glass headquarters in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin is what must be the world’s quietest kitchen. There, visitors will spot an ordinary, everyday kitchen sink complete with backsplash inside what looks like a recording studio with baffled walls and ceiling.

A.O. Smith’s tag line is “Innovation has a name.” At least one name for it has to be the Lloyd R. Smith Corporate Technology Center, which the manufacturer opened last October.

Dan Foley, owner of Foley Mechanical Inc., Lorton, Virginia, was presented the Dan Holohan Lifetime Contribution to Comfort Award at Taco Comfort Solutions’ press conference at the AHR Expo, Jan. 14, in Atlanta.

Colorado mechanical contractor runs its own in-house apprentice program recognized by the Department of Labor to turn out its own future PHCP contractors.

DeGarmo Plumbing & Piping installs steam boilers and process piping system to help Wisconsin craft distiller.

Last August, Oracle Construction and Engineering opened an Innovation Lab in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield designed to accelerate the company’s efforts to help the construction industry explore the latest technologies and drive the type of digital transformation that only sounds futuristic.

Last year, Bradford White teamed up with Fortiva Retail Credit to allow contractors to offer financing to the “second look” customer, those customers with a lower than “good” credit score. And there are a lot of those customers – more than half of the U.S. population has less-than-prime credit profiles.

Among many accomplishments, the mechanical contractor opens  The FID, a 157,000-square-foot multitrade prefab center.