The American Supply Association reported total attendance of 876 at its 2004 annual convention in Boston, in conjunction with ISH North America, almost exactly matching attendance figures for its 2003 convention in Las Vegas.
In late October, after 102 years in business, Peerless Pottery closed its Rockport, Ind., factory, where it had manufactured residential and commercial vitreous china bathroom fixtures, including toilets, lavatories and urinals, and employed 167 workers.
A spokesman for Thermo 2000, exhibiting at ISH North America, discussed how a high school that had 100 showers in the men's room and 75 showers in the ladies' room was able to replace two 3,000-gallon storage tanks for hot water with Turbomax 109 indirect water heater units that heat water instantaneously only when needed, reducing energy consumption and cutting heating costs.
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