EMCOR Buys S.A. Comunale

EMCOR Group (Norwalk, Conn.) recently bought Akron, Ohio-based S.A. Comunale, a privately held fire protection and mechanical contracting company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

S.A. Comunale will become a subsidiary of EMCOR, yet its name will stay the same. The company has about 800 employees within its headquarters and 12 branch locations. It provides full fire protection services, as well as mechanical construction services for plumbing, HVAC, process piping and design-build applications.

Comunale's fire protection business was part of the appeal for EMCOR.

“One of EMCOR's strengths is our ability to provide full 'Life Safety Solutions' to create and support secure environments, to protect two of the most important components of any business: people and physical assets,” said Frank T. MacInnis, chairman and CEO of EMCOR. “Comunale, with it's recognized position as one of the nation's leading fire protection companies, supports this strategy.”

According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Stephen J. Comunale, company president and CEO, and other leaders, including some family members, intend to stay with the company as it becomes part of the EMCOR Group.

S.A. Comunale was No. 9 on this year's PM Pipe Trades Giants list. The company expects its 2006 revenues to be about $150 million.

EMCOR has been No. 1 on the Pipe Trades Giants list for almost every year since the ranking began in the early 1990s.

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Kelly Faloon was a former editor of Plumbing & Mechanical as well as the BNP Media Plumbing Group’s Integrated Content Development Specialist. She also was a former editor of the Radiant Comfort Guide the Radiant & Hydronics Report — both official publications of the Radiant Professionals Alliance — and twice-monthly Radiant & Hydronics eNews, an enewsletter for anyone interested in the world of heating with hot water.

Her editorial specialties included women in plumbing, recruiting for the trades, green construction techniques, water conservation, water treatment, hydronic heating, radiant heating and cooling, snow melt, solar thermal and geothermal.

After a 3½-year stint at sister publication Supply House Times, Faloon joined the PM staff in December 2001 as senior editor. She was named PM’s managing editor in 2006 and editor in 2013.

Previously, she spent nearly 10 years at CCH, a publishing firm specializing in business and tax law, where she wore many hats — proofreader, writer/editor for a daily tax publication, and Internal Revenue Code editor.

A native of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, Faloon is a 1986 journalism graduate of Michigan State University.