• Baltimore-based Mueller Associates promoted Clark Davenport, P.E., to project manager. Davenport, a mechanical engineer with 12 years of experience, will manage the design of new construction and renovation projects in the institutional, corporate and educational markets for the firm.
     
  • Fairfax, Va.-based engineering firm Dewberry hired Anthony Alduino, P.E., and Alex Melgar, P.E., for the company’s New York City office. Both will serve in a senior project manager position. Alduino will support MEP services and has 21 years of industry experience. Melgar joins Dewberry’s building structures group.
     
  • Indianapolis-based manufacturers rep P-M & Associates (pme’s 2015 Manufacturer Rep of the Year) announced it has assumed representation of Zurn for the state of Kentucky in a transaction with Shearer Company, which has represented Zurn since 1953.
     
  • P-M & Associates also welcomes five new associates; Jordan Klivansky (customer sales rep); Joe Fox (customer service rep); Jason Brewer (outside sales Kentucky & southern Indiana); Don Huckstep (quotations manager – Indiana); and Davarna Rainbolt (quotations manager – Kentucky).
     
  • Navien is partnering with Delco Sales. Delco is Navien’s new rep agency for Southern California, Hawaii and southern Nevada.
     
  • Duncan Cooper, Grundfos’ regional managing director and group senior vice president for the Americas, announced he will leave the company this summer.
     
  • Watts Water announced David Trotter has joined the company as Mid-Atlantic regional sales manager, responsible for sales of Watts Water’s commercial and residential products via manufacturers reps, wholesalers, engineers and contractors.
     
  • Val-Matic announced president and CEO Ted J. Makowan will be retiring as of April 6 but will continue to serve on the Val-Matic Board of Directors. Makowan founded the company with Andy Nuter in Chicago in 1966 and will be retiring on the 50th anniversary of the company’s beginning.
     
  • Modine, celebrating its 100th anniversary, is in the midst of a 10,000-mile cross-country Innovation Tour (www.modineinnovationtour.com) of the United States, a traveling road show that will take the manufacturer’s technology to the doorsteps of thousands of allied trade professionals.
     
  • Weil-McLain is celebrating 135 years of hydronic heating innovations with a year-long schedule of events at its manufacturing facilities and headquarters, as well as special promotions throughout the year.
     
  • PB Heat announced its full 2016 training schedule. Classes will be held at the Peerless Boiler Training Lab in Boyertown, Pa. The Peerless Training Trailer also will be on hand for live-fire demonstrations.      The seminars will be March 22-23; April 12-13; May 10-11; June 14-15; Aug. 16-17; Sept. 13-14; Oct. 11-12; and Nov. 15-16.
     
  • Worthington Industries acquired the business of NetBraze, a manufacturer of brazing alloys, silver brazing filler metals, solders and fluxes primarily used in plumbing, HVACR, industrial gas and OEM markets. NetBraze is located in Mt. Orab, Ohio, and has 23 employees.   
  • Members of Plumbing Manufacturers International donated hundreds of faucets and other plumbing supplies in response to the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich.