RH Peterson Company (City of Industry, California) recently added a 2015 S2G box truck from Freightliner, fueled by clean-burning LP, to its delivery fleet. Tod Corrin, executive vice president of RH Peterson, says, “This is a first-ever factory purpose- built, medium-duty, propane box truck. This purchase speaks to RH Peterson’s…

Innovative Hearth Products (IHP), manufacturer of Astria, IronStrike, and Superior brand fireplaces, stoves, inserts, and accessories, held a grand reopening ceremony for its Russellville, Alabama, facility in late October. The ceremony commemorated the company’s renovation and expansion of the facility, which involved a 14-month, $14-million investment that has resulted in…

Dan Maddox, a veteran of the hearth industry, passed away on September 30, 2014, in Centerville, Ohio, after an extended illness. He was 87. He founded The Maddox Company in Columbus and Products Marketing Group in Dayton.

In 1989, Maddox founded a manufacturing business designing and producing outdoor firepits…

A new partnership has been announced between two leaders (in outdoor furniture and accessory rugs) that will complement outdoor-furniture collections found in the stores of both traditional and specialty brickand- mortar furniture retailers and casual-furniture specialists. Agio-USA (Virginia Beach, Virginia) has made an exclusive arrangement to sell nuLOOM rugs through…

ProCom Heating Inc. (Brea, California) has a long history in the heating industry, dating back to the early 1980s. During that time, ProCom was the first Chinese manufacturer of heating products to export to the United States. Now, much of the California company’s manufacturing is transitioning to the United States.…