European Home, a Massachusetts fireplace manufacturer and importer, has introduced the Element4 240 series of gas fireplaces. Comprising two models, the Modore 240 and the Tenore 240, the 240 series features a 95–inch-wide single piece of ceramic glass and one flue. The 240 series is the only fireplace line of…

Homecrest Outdoor Living named David Beil as its sales representative of the year during the company’s national sales meeting, held during the ICFA Preview Show™in Chicago, Illinois. Beil has been with Homecrest as its sales representative (covering Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Southern Illinois) for more than 32 years.…

Sunbrella® has launched The Beach House, Part III of Perspective New England, which follows the makeover of a Narragansett, Rhode Island, beach house—from faded to fabulous—in a series of seven online episodes. The story follows interior designer Kate Jackson of Kate Jackson Design as she breathes new life into the…

Hearth & Home Technologies® has initiated a proactive recall of certain gas valves in recently manufactured gas-fireplace products from the brands Heat & Glo®, Heatilator®, Quadra-Fire®, and Outdoor Lifestyles®. A potential defect in the screws used in the valves of selected products manufactured between May 1 and June 19, 2014,…

Bernard Dalsin Manufacturing (BDM) was granted U.S. patent number 8,734,209 on May 27, 2014, in connection with its Pro-Form direct-vent insert termination cap. The cap has been patent pending since February 27, 2006, and has since been sold through OEM, specialty hearth retail, and chimney-sweep sales channels.

The cap…