| Torrington
Supply recently hosted their Annual Heating Show. The event
was held at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville Connecticut.
The opening ceremony included Steve Johnson, NHRA Drag Racer
(sponsored by White Rodgers).
Dan Holohan returned as
their guest speaker and John Barba of Taco was on hand also.
Events of the day included morning technical trainings,
afternoon presentations and seminars followed by an evening
trade show and reception. Sixty five vendors were on hand
with products on display and demonstration trailers were
lined up outdoors with running equipment.
Torrington Supply Company
is the largest independent Connecticut based
wholesale-distributor of residential, commercial, and
industrial plumbing, heating and air conditioning equipment,
pumps, and industrial piping supplies serving contractor,
industry, and institutions throughout Connecticut. They
operate from eight locations in Connecticut.
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| Their
72,000-sq-ft headquarters, showroom, and distribution center
is located in Waterbury with branch points of sale in South
Windsor, Danbury (2), New Haven, Stratford, Bristol and
Stamford.
Torrington Supply Company
was established in 1917 by David Stein, a Lithuanian
émigré who came to this country as a seventeen
year-old in 1905. Lacking money or formal education, he
learned the plumbing trade in New York City. Soon after, he
moved to New Britain, Connecticut, and eventually opened a
plumbing contracting business of his own in Waterbury.
Almost immediately he
developed a small but growing sideline furnishing plumbing
supplies to other local tradesmen. As that sideline grew,
Stein realized that he preferred merchandising to
contracting, and soon was in the wholesale business
full-time; The Brass City Plumbing Supply Company.
The company's original name
was changed to Torrington Supply Company, when, in the mid
1920's, the company moved to Torrington for a period of 10
years. In the mid 1930's, the company moved once again, back
to Waterbury, and then moved to its current facility in
1988.
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