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Blaze King is sad to announce the passing of a dear friend, Charles “Garth” Bates on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. Garth and his brother Syd purchased Valley Comfort Systems in 1988 and, in March of 1998, purchased the U.S. operation of Blaze King...

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Woodbridge Fireplace, an Ontario fireplace manufacturer of gas fireplaces for the home and outdoor use, is pleased to announce it has just released a new direct-vent fireplace model. The DV1400 Direct-Vent Fireplace is the Canadian fireplace manufacturer’s...

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In not one, but two industry firsts, Quadra-Fire, a brand of Hearth and Home Technologies, introduces the only wood stove equipped with a programmable wall thermostat, along with a single-button control system for ultimate convenience. The new Adventure...

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Antson Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity buyout firm headquartered in Baltimore, has announced the acquisition of Zane, LLC, which trades as Woodburners Plus, by its portfolio company ACP-Offenbachers, LLC. Woodburners is a 23-year-old retail and...

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Participants in the Model Neighborhood Wood Heat Initiative gathered October 1 to celebrate the program’s success. So far, the program has helped install state-of-the-art, high-efficiency wood pellet boilers in 23 homes and eight non-residential...

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Ray Murray Inc. (RMI) has announced that they have purchased the business of Best & Langston, a leading Hearth, Heating & Leisure Products Distributor based in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The addition of Best & Langston makes RMI...

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Lignetics has announced its acquisition of the assets of GF Funding LLC (whose facility was formerly known as Geneva Wood Fuels), expanding its footprint into Maine and upper New England. Lignetics is the largest residential wood pellet manufacturing...

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More American homes than ever before are getting solar panels. The market to install solar panels on the roofs of homes in the U.S. set another record in the second quarter of this year, indicating a shift in the U.S. solar panel industry toward homeowners...

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Robert and Karen Beck, owners of Sierra Products and Thelin Hearth Products, recently relocated their business from Montclair, California, to a newer facility in Carson City, Nevada. The Becks acquired Thelin Hearth Products in October 2014. The new...

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At the end of the day yesterday, Jerry Fisk passed away. He was a manufacturers’ representative, and had been since the beginning of the new hearth industry. Those of us who knew Jerry (and there are hundreds if not thousands) regard him as a legendary...

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