Is Your Company Conducting Regular Propane Safety Meetings?
Whether you own, operate or manage a propane business, safety training is always at the top of your priority list. Proper training is critical to meet the many compliance and regulatory requirements in our industry, …
Shuffle the Deck or Fold: Your Margin Depends on it
Save 11 to 15 cents per gallon on a significant piece of your business For the past couple of years, I have been advising fuel industry members that the payments landscape is constantly changing and a …
Nozzles & Fuel Unit Pressure
Understanding the effects of increasing fuel pump pressure With today’s flame retention burners and smaller combustion chambers, it’s crucial to understand the effects that increasing fuel pump pressure can have on a system. This would include …
Is a Circulator’s Efficiency as Important as a Boiler’s?
The heating industry has been focusing on improving the combustion efficiency of the boiler, and every boiler manufacturer has a modulating/condensing boiler in its product offering. The number of mod/con boiler installations has been growing …
Palladin invests in Southeast Mechanical to form HVAC platform
Palladin Consumer Retail Partners, LLC has made a majority investment in Southeast Mechanical (SEM Holdings, LLC). Existing shareholders, including Colmont Group and management, will retain an ownership position in Southeast Mechanical and continue to assist …
Rural Computer Consultants buys Propane Management Systems
Rural Computer Consultants, a software provider for the propane and fuel industry, has acquired Propane Management Systems (PMS) from DCC Propane, LLC. Terms of the deal, which closed June 30, were not revealed. Specializing in support …
Duravent invests $1M in innovation center, is renamed Duravent Group
HVAC vent maker the Duravent Group invested $1 million to open its new 22,000 sq-ft Grand Rapids Innovation Center in Grand Rapids, MI, which includes design and prototype labs, airflow testing suites, state-of-the-art office layout …
Zero-Carbon Home Demonstration
Can you reduce a home’s carbon emissions to zero using a renewable low carbon liquid fuel and solar panels? The National Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA) says “yes.” In fact, the demonstration has already begun in …
TexNJ Energy has purchased Apgar Oil
TexNJ Energy, LLC (DBA Weaver Fuels), Allentown, PA, has acquired the business operations of Apgar Oil Co., Inc., a full-service heating fuels delivery business, and Apgar’s discount brand, Thrifty Fuel, also located in Allentown, PA. …
GEF Capital Partners acquires renewable heating oil provider Lifecycle Renewables
Arlington, VA-based private equity firm GEF Capital has purchased renewable heating oil provider Lifecycle Renewables, Inc. (LRI) based in Tewksbury, MA. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; Boenning & Scattergood served as financial …