Moving ahead means embracing today’s technology
January 11, 2013 By Vinny Mullineaux
Many propane marketers have yet to embrace any modern-day technology across all aspects of their operations.
Read More Propane-fueled scooters capture consumer interest
January 11, 2011 By LP Gas
His love of the seas fostered a passion for propane. And now as the head of LEHR, the California-based company he founded, Bernardo Jorge Herzer is charting a new course of innovation for consumer-friendly uses for propane.
Read More Propane-powered post pounder quite the ‘groundbreaking’ invention
January 11, 2011 By LP Gas
Business is running into the ground at Tippmann Industrial Products Inc. in Fort Wayne, Ind. – and company executives couldn’t be more pleased.
Read More System combines home heating, power generation
January 23, 2009 By LP Gas
This winter, a new home energy technology will allow homeowners to turn home heating into power generation.
Read More Propane retailers feeling heat from challenging economic conditions
December 1, 2008 By LP Gas
Yep, things are a mess. Looking back, retailing sure was easy before overwhelming regulation and sky-high insurance took the fun out of the business. Sure, you worried about what weather Mother Nature would be throwing at you any given year. Sure, you spent a sleepless night or two, wondering whether you’d made the right decision about adding a bobtail despite a new retailer invading your territory. But global economic crisis? Where did this come from? Yep, things are a mess.
Read More Nichols’ LP Gas Service
December 1, 2007 By LP Gas
Tom Nichols had little choice. Working in the electronics industry, he had to embrace technology and adapt to change, or the world and his competitors would pass him by.
Read More Hybrid technology may change the landscape of drying grain
September 1, 2007 By LP Gas
When Cooperative Energy Co. entered the propane market in 1969, about 70 percent of its business came from drying corn. Now it’s down to 27 percent, says General Manager Brian Dreessen.
Read More Opportunity to learn
August 1, 2006 By Patrick Hyland
Nobody has to tell propane marketers that today’s business climate is far more complex than a generation ago.
Read More Project Renaissance: An epoch of technology application
June 1, 2006 By LP Gas
When Jim Ferrell returned from semi-retirement to run the Fortune 1000 company that bears his name in 2001, the 61-year-old industry icon already had decided that drastic change was critical in the face of stiffening competition and spiraling prices.
Read More Solving the truck computer mystery
June 1, 2004 By LP Gas
OK, so we aren’t the most adventurous industry when it comes to technology.
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