This week’s gallery features these new HVACR products: an electronic mixing valve to help combat Legionella bacteria growth; a converter that allows a mini-split system to be controlled by a third-party thermostat; a cooling tower fan retrofit kit; a one-way ceiling cassette for installation between joists; a line of groove fitting adapters for transitioning from PEX to metal piping; a line of channel plate heat exchangers for water chillers and heat pumps; and a boiler tube weld alignment clamp.
Kelly L. Faloon is a contributing editor and writer to Contracting Business magazine, Contractor and HPAC Engineering. The former editor of Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Faloon has more than 20 years experience in the plumbing and heating industry. She started a freelance writing and editing business in 2017, where she has a varied clientele.
Faloon spent 3 1/2 years at Supply House Times before joining the Plumbing & Mechanical staff in 2001. Previously, she spent nearly 10 years at CCH/Wolters Kluwer, a publishing firm specializing in business and tax law, where she wore many hats — proofreader, writer/editor for a daily tax publication, and Internal Revenue Code editor.
A native of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, Faloon is a journalism graduate of Michigan State University. You can reach her at [email protected].