Thermoplastics piping systems manufacturer IPEX recently announced the grand opening of its new Stockton distribution center in the central valley of California.

Wilo USA, a subsidiary of WILO SE, through its newly established subsidiary, American-Marsh Pumps, has acquired the assets of U.S. manufacturer J-Line Pump Co., doing business as American-Marsh Pumps. 

Viega recently announced its winter lineup of courses at its seminar centers in Broomfield, Colorado, and Nashua, New Hampshire.

Both as a tool for starting an offline chiller and as a reliable indicator for stopping an online chiller, it makes sense to use chilled water (CHW) flow reading through a decoupled bypass leg. 

The Webstone, a brand of NIBCO, thermostatic mixing valve for high-temperature solar heat sources accepts outputs up to 230° F from the heat source, then mixes with cold water supply to achieve temperatures for the desired application. 

Uponor North America now offers a PEX purple pipe in sizes up to 2” for commercial and residential reclaimed water applications. 

The Noritz NWCC Wi-Fi adapter is an organized, web-based dashboard and alarm system that gives property managers and maintenance technicians full online control over their commercial tankless water heater systems, Noritz says. 

Viega’s three-piece ball valves now are available for its MegaPress carbon and stainless steel pressing systems.

Radiant heating can often be a hard sell when uneducated potential customers have an unrealistic expectation of the installed costs. 

Although I’ve worked with hydronic heating for four decades, and designed systems around just about every possible heat source, I would be hard pressed to predict what might be available as hydronic heat sources 25 years from now.