HMC’S NEW BEE’S JAN.-MAR. 2023

SEAN KAMAT – DFW SPECIFICATION MANAGER

He enjoys being with friends and family (wife and two sons), cooking, and grilling. His favorite hobby is playing golf. He has been in the engineering construction industry for over twenty years.

MIKE MORRISON – PMG JOB QUOTES

He has been in the plumbing wholesale business for over sixteen years. His favorite foods are steak, salmon, and spaghetti. His favorite color is green. He likes a variety of music and likes to go to museums and art festivals.

LAURIE RUTHERFORD – INSIDE SALES TEAM 9

She has a long career in customer service and sales support. She loves baking, traveling, hiking, fly-fishing, and making/eating Tex-Mex and Italian food. She likes to listen to house and electronic music.

EDEE SANFORD – PURCHASING COORDINATOR

She loves Mexican food, country music, and the color turquoise. She is a DIYer, loves making crafts, likes playing sports, four wheeling, and has a Chihuahua named Chanel.

STEFANOS GHEBRAY – INSIDE SALES TEAM 5

He enjoys reading, cardio exercises, watching movies, and spending time with family and friends. His favorite type of music is Oldies, Motown and 80’s. Eritrean cuisine is his favorite food.

JAMES SENA – SANDIAGROUP ACCOUNT MANAGER

He was born and raised in Santa Fe. He likes listening to old country, oldies, and old R&B. He loves 4am workouts, is a diehard Yankees fan, and loves northern New MeVVxico Mexican food.

CHRISTY MOHR – INSIDE SALES TEAM 2

She has many years of customer service experience. She likes to listen to country and praise music, enjoys reading, and watching football. She has two dogs and two cats. She also runs 5k/10k races for Neurofibromatosis awareness.

PEYTON REINERSTEN – INSIDE SALES TEAM 3

He recently graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene with a degree in Behavioral Science. Peyton is a big fan of Dallas sports teams (Cowboys and Mavericks) and enjoys golf, being outside and hanging out with his brothers.

AUSTIN GIBSON (AJ) – INSIDE SALES TEAM 6

He was a diesel mechanic and has been in the service business for many years. He was born in Denton, but moved to Texarkana until he was in his 20’s. His favorite food is steak with sweet potato fries. He likes all kinds of music, except Country, and enjoys playing video games. He has a cat named Millie.

JONATHAN COOPER – SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS MANAGER

He is a Major in the Army and is still in the reserves. He enjoys watching sports, going to the gym, and golfing. He likes trying different foods and visiting new breweries when he travels. He has a basset hound named Dorito.

ENRIQUE HERNANDEZ – DG 1ST SHIFT

He is studying to be an HVAC Tech. He enjoys playing soccer, loves eating wings, and likes watching soccer (Real Madrid).

PABLO CISNEROS – DG 1ST SHIFT

He loves drawing, gaming, working out, eating menudo and hot wings, skateboarding, and has a pet baby quail.

LUIS ROJAS – DG 1ST SHIFT

He has experience working in several warehouses and positions. He enjoys playing basketball and watching football (Cowboys). His favorite food to eat is chicken alfredo. He enjoys all music and loves spending time with his family.

JOSE ANGUIANO – DG 2ND SHIFT

He grew up in Dallas and enjoys spending time with his kids. He likes Mexican food, likes all types of music, and enjoys watching football and basketball.

MICHAEL SANCHEZ – DG 2ND SHIFT

He grew up in California and enjoys watching football (Raiders), playing FIFA, loves eating tacos, and listening to Regional Mexicana music.

JACKSON ANDERSON – DG 2ND SHIFT

He is attending his first year in college. He enjoys watching soccer (Juventus) and football (Buffalo Bills). He likes eating pizza and chicken and has two dogs.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first installation of Aquatherm’s polypropylene piping system. With humble beginnings in his garage, German tradesman Gerhard Rosenberg grew and developed the global plastic pipe and fittings brand. In 2005, the brand came to North America, and it was first sold in the United States in 2007. His three sons now run the ever-evolving company. Aquatherm North America is based in Lindon, Utah, a short drive south from Salt Lake City, through the beautiful snowcapped Wasatch Mountains.

“We’ve always said our pipe is designed to last 50 years. Next year we’ll get to start saying 51,” said Scott Milburn, Applications Engineer, Aquatherm North America.

In January of 2023, Hugh Cunningham was appointed the rep for Aquatherm in Central and South Texas and the Houston markets. In March, HMC’s Factory Support Team members took the trek to Lindon for in-person Train the Trainer certification class. Over three days of classroom and hands on training, FST toured the fabrication shop and engineering facilities; learned the features and benefits of the Aquatherm system; and mastered installation techniques.

It is now up to HMC’s Project Sales and Account Managers, with help from Team7 and FST, to find the contractors who can put this product to use and to train them how to install it efficiently. The polypropylene resin is well suited for low temperature, high pressure pipe work typically used with chiller systems, breweries, industrial food production, potable water, and compressed air. The pipe is light weight and easy to handle for flexible logistics on the jobsite. Aquatherm’s state-of-the-art fabrication services can prepare complex configurations with ease. With minimal training, a pipe fitter can run multiple fusion stations to maximize productivity.

Historically, the value proposition for Aquatherm’s polypropylene pipe system was that even though the material was a little more expensive up front, the labor savings would far offset that cost, and the total job would be less expensive. Boasting only four price adjustments in nearly 20 years - including through the pandemic – the current value proposition is even more enticing. Compared to the stainless steel or copper materials that are traditionally used in hydronics systems, Aquatherm’s polypropylene pipe goes to market at the same or even lower material cost.

Dedicated to delivering a superior product at a superior value, exclusively through our wholesale plumbing partners, Hugh M. Cunningham Companies and Aquatherm are in a unique position to expand market share and lead the charge to convert jobs and customers.

ViaSat-3 – SpaceX Falcon Heavy : Sat April 8 17:25 CDT (Florida)

Launch Cost: $90M -Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.

NROL-68 – United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy : Wed Apr 19 19:00 CDT (Florida)

Launch Cost $350M - Classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Orbital Flight Test – SpaceX Starship : Projected to Launch April (Texas)

Maiden flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster will separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage will achieve orbit until performing a powered, targeted splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii).

On 02 April 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a message to Congress, proposed the establishment of a National Aeronautics and Space Agency into which the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics would be absorbed. The new agency would conduct the civilian space program through research in its own facilities or by contract and would also perform military research required by DOD. Projects primarily military in character would remain the responsibility of DOD.