Johnstone Supply (Portland, Ore.) opened a 100,000-sq.-ft. distribution center in Breiningsville, Pa., March 7, that will serve 69 stores in the Northeast.

Able Distributors (Chicago) hosted a boiler water seminar at the Environmental Technical Institute in Itasca, Ill., March 22.

Peerless Boilers announced the dates and locations of the 2005 “Colors of Heat” training seminars.

Its unique product traces to the trenches of World War I.

Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) has reintroduced H.R. 1241, the “Cool and Efficient Buildings Act,” to set the depreciation period from 39 to 20 years for HVAC equipment installed on or in nonresidential buildings.

York® Heating and Air Conditioning's Business Training University (BTU) announced its 2005 curriculum.

Commercial refrigeration manufacturers, represented by the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), and energy efficiency advocates, represented by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), reached an agreement on federal equipment efficiency standards for commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator freezers used in restaurants, convenience stores, grocery stores and other commercial buildings, said ARI in a release.

REHAU announced its 2005 schedule of basic and advanced Skill Builders training classes offered through the REHAU Academy.

The Independent Quality Alliance (IQA), in a partnership with Lehigh Carbon Community College (Lehigh, Pa.), opened the Gino Nicolai Hydronic Radiant Simulator Training Center.

Munters Corp. Moisture Control Services (MCS) promoted Jay Kranker to Western region industrial sales manager.