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Innovations, such as VR training and smart products linked online, can make the trades cool to new tradespeople.
May 6, 2024
While we generally don’t associate the invention of high-tech software with plumbers or other home service techs, reality couldn’t be further from the trut
It was 33 years ago on a blistering cold Friday night in Billings, Mont., when the Grainger emergency service operator notified me that I needed to call a customer immediately.
Showroom consultants in the Winsupply family must understand client likes/dislikes, budgets, timelines — and package everything together for the right look.
May 6, 2024
As a consultant, you need to be aware of all that to achieve the best results for your customers. You also need to be aware of the current trends and products and how to put them all together to achieve the look desired at the budget given.
This year, the value of projects anticipated to begin construction in the United States and Canada totals $21 billion, up from $11 billion in 2023.
May 6, 2024
Trey Hamblet, Industrial Info Resources (IIR) vice president of research for chemical processing and refining, expects to see an increase in North American chemical processing project spending this year, especially after a less-than-anticipated spend in 2023.
The PVF Roundtable Charitable Foundation has provided more than $2 million in scholarship funds to eight college and trade schools.
May 6, 2024
At the end of each year, usually during the Guest Speaker Dinner in October, the PVF Roundtable presents colleges and trade schools with oversized check scholarship donations to directors and chancellors of said institutions.
By the time this article is published, the industry will be midway through the second quarter of 2024, with the oil markets being buffeted by worries about supply shortages and escalating geopolitical tensions.
Novelist and philosopher William James understood that there is more to life than ourselves: “The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”