The fabric of America has been woven by exploration. We as a people are culturally attuned to seek out new land, new opportunity, new technologies. Perhaps it's this cultural imperative that leads us at PM Engineer to do all we can, with little self-interest at stake, to get people in the plumbing and hydronic heating industry to pay attention to the world's largest plumbing-heating exposition, held every other year in Frankfurt, Germany.
The so-called ISH Show (the letters derive from International Sanitation & Heating, which have the same initials in German as in English) is filled with products, technologies and techniques much different than American plumbing engineers are used to. Arguments rage about whether the various materials and merchandise displayed at ISH represent superiority over American ways. Whichever way you lean, there can be no doubt industry visitors see things there they've never seen here.