By John Demeter 

Recently, Tyco Fire Suppression and Building Products gave wide distribution to a paper entitled, "HFC's in Fire Protection Systems: An Invisible and Unnecessary Climate Threat" by George Dyer. Even if you didn't read the paper (which you can by clicking here) the title gives you some hint of the author's predisposition. He doesn't like HFC's. Though he doesn't mention trade names, because he deals with fire protection, we suspect he means FM-200 and FE-25. And while he deals specifically with clean agents used in fire systems (total flood), we suspect that he would not like the streaming agents FE-36 and Halotron as well. Read more..

The FSSA Annual Meeting in Camelback, AZ and NAFED's Sectional Conference in Las Vegas, NV appeared to be record breaking with attendance through the roof! Our very own John Demeter, was elected the Vice Chair of the Manufacturers Division on the FSSA Board of Directors. Entertaining, Funny, and Clever, The Suppressionettes made their debut appearance at FSSA singing their rendition of "Heat Wave." (click here to see a video of the performance!) NAFED invited John Demeter to speak at all three of their conferences. His presentation, The Future of Clean Agent Fire Suppression, can be found here. If you missed it in Las Vegas, be sure to catch him present it again in Atlantic City, NJ (April 8th-9th)  and in St.Louis, MO (May 6th-7th) for the remaining two NAFED shows. And last but not least, the winner of Wesco's ITouch raffle is (drum roll please) Michael Fease of Taylor Brothers Fire & Safety!

Online registration is now open for the Sixth Triennial International Aircraft Fire and Cabin Safety Conference. There is no registration fee to attend this year's conference. The spring Systems WG meeting will be hosted by the U.K Civil Aviation Authority, May 18-19, 2010. Please note that May 18th, 2010 will be held at CAA House ion London. May 19th, 2010 will be held at CAA Aviation House in Gatwick, West Susex. For meeting details, maps, directions, and meeting registration, click here.  

Late last year, Wesco started technologically fresh, with a new, cleaner website that has simple navigation which will lead you to our products and services, industry guidelines, and constant refreshing news that is linked directly to our blog. Speaking of blogs, that is brand new also, with an accompanying Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, Wesco is settling in nicely with constant updates to the Industry through the Internet and Social Media. To see what all the buzz is about, please feel free to click on all of the below links for direct access and let us know what you think!

 

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Did you know that Badger Fire Protection, a UTC Fire and Security company, was once owned by Figgie International, a publicly traded company owned in part by Harry E. Figgie, Jr? Then it was called Figgie Fire Protection Systems. Prior to renaming the company after himself, the company was called ATO, also a name given by Mr. Figgie. When asked by financial reporters what ATO stood for, Harry responded, "A Terrific Organization."