The move will empower a strong Canadian-based leader to oversee, unify and grow AD’s Canadian business.

The new distribution center offers greater access to customers in the Permian Basin and Western regions.

Joseph A. Clemente, who was the managing partner of Niagara Controls LLC, will now provide direction and guidance to both Collins divisions.

Exceptionally friendly and outgoing, Hatfield works hard to build lasting relationships with professionals both inside and outside the PVF industry.

The new training portal walks HVAC/R contractors through the step-by-step process of making reliable, permanent copper tube connections using RLS press technology.

AD’s two newly elected directors are Steve Drummond, president of Source Atlantic and Dr. Don McNeeley, chairman and CEO of Chicago Tube & Iron. Lenin Juarez, managing partner at Action Gypsum Supply LP, was reelected by the membership.

LaPorte started his career at Factory & Mill Supply in Garfield, and in 1965 he started his own company, Bergen Industrial Supply Company in Elmwood Park, which he owned and operated until 2013.

The scholarship was established by the LDC of the SWA in 2015 to honor Dottie Ramsey.

The association’s annual convention will take place June 7-8 at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort.

The PVF distribution and manufacturing organization expands membership in the leading buying group to include eight subsidiaries.