In January, Matco-Norca announced its partnership with Plumbers Without Borders, working towards gender parity in the trades and to close to skills gap worldwide. Supply House Times Chief Editor Natalie Forster talked with Matco-Norca’s Amy Zucchi, Plumbers Without Borders’ Jeff Morgan, and a plumbing company’s Brand Manager turned female contractor, Tosha Everhart. The group discusses attracting and retaining women into PHCP, addressing the skills gap, challenges facing women in plumbing and more. 

Nicole Krawcke, chief editor of Plumbing & Mechanical, chats with Mark Ingrao, CEO of PHCC, and Joel Long, president of PHCC and owner of Gastonia, North Carolina-based GSM Services, about market trends and challenges contractors can expect in 2022, and how to successfully navigate them. 

Nicole Krawcke, chief editor of Plumbing & Mechanical, chats with Yaron Dycian, chief product and strategy officer for WINT – Water Intelligence, about the growing trend of leak detection in commercial buildings and the importance of water conservation. 

Nicole Krawcke, chief editor of Plumbing & Mechanical, chats with Bryan Cordill, director of residential and commercial business development at the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) about how propane can help deliver resilient homes and buildings just in time for National Preparedness Month.

Nicole Krawcke, chief editor of Plumbing & Mechanical, chats with Erica Leonor, a trainer with Power Selling Pros, which offers CSR and technician coaching for contractors. In this episode, Leonor discusses how to prepare contracting business owners to have tough conversations with their teams about things that need to change and improve.

Nicole Krawcke chats with Danielle Putnam, president of The New Flat Rate, a menu pricing system for contractors, about a topic she has presented at numerous industry conferences — how to work on your business and not in it.

Lehtinen and Valore chat with Supply House Times’ Natalie Forster about the applications and features of QuickDrain USA’s latest product launch, the SquareDrain point drain.