It is a true honor to have been chosen to be your ASA national president for 2019, which is our association’s 50th year leading our industry.

At the tail-end of high school and through most of my college days, I worked at an at-the-time popular department store.

ASA has applied to renew its OSHA Alliance Partner status and looks forward to continuing to fulfill all of the responsibilities that come with that status.

This time of year, the best distributors, reps and manufacturers talk a lot about “strategic planning.”

Probably one of the easiest things for a supply-house owner/manager to overlook is the need for constant employee training.

Before I retired from speaking in 2016, I spent decades giving talks about heating systems across the U.S., Canada, Europe and even in the Caribbean. Several times, I even did steam-heating seminars in Hawaii. Life’s funny that way.

Every year over the past decade, ASA and its leadership has invested millions of dollars improving our value proposition for our members. Our emergence as the most influential organization in our industry has come at a time when distributors are facing change at a pace that we have never seen before in our lifetimes.

Todd Adams, president of Lakeland, Florida-based sanitary-grade stainless steel tube, valves and fittings manufacturer Sanitube, had plenty of reasons to smile back in July 2017.

Almost every house has one — the uncomfortable, stuffy room that usually is too warm and uncomfortable.

Amazon’s mission is to be the “Earth’s most customer-centric company.” And they increasingly are!