Clockwork Home Services announces new hires,

ESAB Welding and Cutting Products opened a manufacturing facility June 20 in Union County, S.C. The 260,000-sq.-ft. plant on Midway Drive is ESAB’s state-of-the-art production site for the manufacture of

Scholarship recipients will receive up to $1,000 in tuition assistance and $1,500 in RIDGID tools.

Attendees from 10 states moved between six hands-on work stations, rotating between them in one-hour intervals.

Nine students were awarded a total of $24,000 in scholarships funded by the foundation, the South Jersey Mechanical Contractors Association, F.A. Williams Inc., the PHCC Auxiliary of Texas and the PHCC Auxiliary of Massachusetts.

The contest, which will be decided by consumer vote on Facebook, runs Aug. 23 to Sept. 17, with final voting taking place Sept. 23 to Oct. 1.

The SST certification course is designed to familiarize attendees with the theory and terminology surrounding AERCO’s direct-fired products.

July brings the pace of total construction starts back to the lackluster activity reported at the outset of 2012. Separate reports from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the National Association of Realtors and the Census Bureau showed, respectively, rising prices for existing single-family houses, rising sales and falling inventories for existing homes, and rising sales and record-low inventories of new homes.

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The national campaign focuses on providing prevention information and training materials on t falls from roofs, ladders and scaffolds.