Carrier Corp. will close its Tennessee heating and air conditioning plant by the end of the year, effectively cutting 2,000 jobs.

The joint task force studying the possible creation of a new trade association concluded that the survey confirmed the members' support of both associations.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the first room temperature, permanent-magnet, magnetic refrigerator.

Martin Walshin, founder of Martin Walshin Inc., died of lung cancer at age 72.

The General Standards Committee of ARI has approved for release the ARI Guideline Q-2001.

RPS Products Inc. appointed Todd Oberg to the position of director of industrial sales.

The Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute said that air source heat pump shipments for 2001 jumped 8% from 2000 to set a new single year record.

Munters acquired Glacier-Cor Division of Pactiv Corp.

Progress Supply (Dayton, Ohio) has been named a Copeland PrimeSource wholesaler location for the Dayton market.

The AHR Expo is returning to Chicago's McCormick Place for the first time since 1999.