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With demand for skilled labor projected to reach an all-time high the next decade, the future of the male-dominated building trades rests on the industry's efforts to roll out the [...]

SNIPS Contractor of the Year, McCusker-Gill, walks us through an encore presentation of a recently completed job at the Encore Boston Harbor luxury casino and resort in Everett, Massachusetts. When [...]

The secret to Kevin Gill Sr.'s near 30-year success at the helm of McCuskcr-Gill Inc. is to leave absolutely nothing to chance. Incorporated in 1991 after purchasing the remnants of [...]

If you subscribe to the notion that hindsight is 'always 20/20,' then you'll need this year's SNIPS State of the Industry report to get you through year 2020. Created, researched [...]

Two years ago, Cass Sheet Metal began the exterior copper restoration on Detroit's 500-foot tall Book Tower building, an iconic and historic centerpiece in the city's downtown skyline built in [...]

Bill Bradfords's sheet metal career is the embodiment of the phrase 'standing on the shoulders of giants.' Only, in this story, Bradford is one of the giants. A first-generation tin [...]

Look around you. The sheet metal machinery on your shop floor is the lifeblood of your business. But as an extension of your workforce, do you know what machines to [...]

In Brooklyn, New York, Gentlemen Sheet Metal Ltd. owner Paul Appel is the 'last man standing' of an increasingly rare pedigree of sheet metal shops and owners. His father, Dennis, [...]

Hamlin Sheet Metal has always taken pride in being able to offer a variety of material types for spiral round and flat oval duct systems. Last year provided many opportunities [...]

Tom Patsis was about 14 years old when he made the switch from making small-scale NASCAR replicas out of plastic and started using sheet metal, starting the early stages of [...]

Last summer, as Jack Knox prepared for his term as president of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA), the SMACNA board of directors outlined four strategic [...]

Access Doors Air Handling Systems Aire Technologies Inc. * ALAN Manufacturing Inc. Biltwel Duct Cleaning Equipment Inc. C & S Air Products, Div. of Pottorff C.L. Ward & Family Inc. [...]

Spot welding machines are widely used in sheet metal shops and are considered generally safe. However, several safety concerns should be considered, with the main one being the danger resulting [...]

Hawaii might seem like a slightly curious choice for the Sheet Metal and Air-Conditioning Contractors' National Association's annual conference. Temperatures in the remote Pacific island chain are quite temperate, averaging [...]

Despite years of working with just metal, Sheet Metal Werks President Kevin Ryan recommended installing nonmetal pre-insulated phenolic ductwork to officials at a local communications facility. It was the right [...]

The following originally appeared in the April 2006 issue of SNIPS. Figures used have not been adjusted for inflation. Many shop owners and managers know that it takes a well-equipped [...]

Around 1940, Theresa Wahl of Wilmington, Delaware, was quietly taking on odd jobs--laundry, housekeeping and cleaning--without her husband's knowledge. Her husband, Horace Wahl Sr., was the owner of Wahl Heating [...]

The sheet metal forming trade may be one of the oldest in the country, but the industry does not eschew technology. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Autodesk's AutoCAD and Navisworks, robotic total stations [...]

With a father and brothers in the sheet metal industry, Mary Coffey was ready for a career in the sheet metal industry after graduating from high school. Yet the industry [...]

Before selling Kenco Industrial Equipment Inc and retiring from the sheet metal industry, Thomas C. Kuschel, who passed away last year at age 85, taught his employees the value of [...]

Hamlin Sheet Metal, now in its 65th year in business, has chosen to market their spiral duct and flat-oval products through manufacturers' representatives. Spiral ductwork has become more and more [...]

This summer, during the 2019 International Certification Board (ICB)/TABB Conference in Seattle, Davor Novosel was inducted into the Testing, Adjusting and Balancing Bureau (TABB) Hall of Fame.. Retired from his [...]

Lisa Davis was well on her way to becoming 'Dr. Davis' after graduating from the University of California with a bachelor's in biology. Then a sheet metal apprenticeship at Local [...]

At the Sheet Metal Local 88 JATC in Las Vegas, Nevada, a new dual plasma table from Production Products. Inc. will enable sheet metal apprentices to practice duct fabrication and [...]

Before signing up for your apprenticeship, did you know you'd be the first African-American woman? When I signed up for the sheet metal apprenticeship, I did not even know what [...]

Depending on whom you ask and where they live, the history of women in the building trades tells a different story. Women--like our Industry Icon Mary Coffey (on page 8), [...]

This month. Advance Machinery/Advance Cutting Systems, founded in 1985, celebrates 35 years as a brand in the sheet metal fabrication business. Here, national sales manager Clinton Ray Jr. explains why [...]

The HVAC Duct Construction Standard--Metal & Flexible by SMACNA is arguably the most resource efficient standard in the industry for sheet metal fabrication and duct installation. 'Adopted by all the [...]

Angie Simon made history last year when she became the first female president to lead the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association's (SMACNA) board of directors. Although her [...]

Middle school students at Mill Creek in Kent, Washington, are benefiting from a call their science teacher, Steven Basten, recently made to the Hermanson Company. 'The first metal work company [...]

Are you a loyal SNIPS reader? Then you know the last page of every issue is devoted to highlighting sheet metal fabrication projects from around the country. Share photos of [...]

SNIPS has officially joined Instagram. Follow us for insights into our upcoming issues, sheet metal projects, star contractors, special contests and great [...]

By the time David Capestany purchased Zinger Sheet Metal Co., Inc. from his father, Nelson, in 2013, the company had completely shifted focus from residential HVAC to commercial. 'Really, up [...]

Bringing Metalcon back to Las Vegas wasn't a gamble for organizers as an estimated 5,000 came to the city for the 2017 sheet metal forming and fabricating event. The Las [...]

SET Duct Manufacturing is a Detroit-based union manufacturer and members of the Sheet Metal and Air-Conditioning Contractors' National Association and the Spiral Duct Manufactures Association, specializing in the manufacturing of [...]

The millions of people who visit Atlanta each year for business or pleasure probably don't know it, but there's a good chance they've passed by some of the work done [...]

Copper is the most valuable of building materials, owing to it being the most versatile. In HVAC systems (as rigid or flex duct), its natural antimicrobial properties improve indoor air [...]