A. O. Smith is one of only a few water heating companies to receive the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year designation four years in a row.

Each year, the ENERGY STAR program honors a group of businesses and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through superior energy achievements.

In this new weekly feature, Plumbing Group Chief Editors Nicole Krawcke and Natalie Forster will highlight timely news stories.

The deal is the first of several acquisitions of Central Florida-based home services businesses that Southeastern Home Services plans to complete this year. 

There are multiple ways to dehumidify a space — mechanical, reheat and desiccant to name a few. The biggest issue has been that conventional air conditioning units are only 10% effective at removing humidity. Until now, standard de-humidification systems were expensive to purchase and install.

The division of VPC Global closed on the purchase of buildings and land with rail access on May 4 and will begin installing extrusion lines as soon as possible. The plan is to replicate the company's Kingman, Arizonia, facility and start production in 60 days.

As governments continue to race toward achieving the goals outlined in the Paris Agreement, it is now evident that the COVID-19 pandemic had an unexpected side effect of helping to lower global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). However, with more individuals beginning to re-engage in pre-pandemic activities, emissions are once again on the rise.

Plumbers and their customers are living in a digital age, which means more potential clients are finding a plumber online via Google searches. If more customers are finding plumbers on Google, then it is important that you take the right steps to ensure you are the plumber they find. 

Franklin Electric has made significant investments in research and development to improve the efficiency of its products and has placed a heavy focus on sustainability initiatives within Franklin Electric’s production and manufacturing facilities across select global facilities.

Milwaukee invested more than $14 million to renovate 70,000-square-feet of space within the historic Old Post Office in Chicago. Approximately 10,000 square feet is dedicated to lab space for design and development of critical new technologies.