PHC News Magazine Features P1 Group for Innovations in Aquatherm Pipe
P1 Group was recently featured in PHC [Plumbing & Hydronic Contractor] News magazine.
The article details P1鈥檚 rich history, business principles, Safety Culture, and P1 as a single-source provider of customer solutions, with a focus on P1鈥檚 recent and ongoing work with Berry Global. Some highlights are below, or .
鈥淭odd Mihalchik, a project manager and estimator for P1 Group, Inc., pauses for a moment. He had just been asked 鈥淲hat sets P1 Group apart in the commercial contracting market?
鈥榃ow,鈥� he says. 鈥楾here are so many things. We鈥檙e honest. We believe in 100 percent accountability and zero excuses. We have a culture of safety first and quality always. We take good care of our people and good care of our customers.,,But I guess the best thing I can say鈥s that even though we鈥檙e a big company, we still feel like a family.鈥�
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鈥淧1 President Kollin Knox cites the 1997 merger of A.D. Jacobson C. and Huxtable and Associates as a key moment in the history of P1.
鈥楾oday we can provide both mechanical and electrical services for our customers, and there aren鈥檛 many contractors that have that capability. I think that鈥檚 one of the huge differentiators for us: we truly are a single-source solution. There鈥檚 not a lot we鈥檙e not capable of doing.鈥欌��
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鈥淜nox is particularly adamant about honesty, authenticity, and accountability.
鈥楾hat鈥檚 just the way we operate. It鈥檚 nonnegotiable. If you鈥檙e going to be a part of the P1 family, you know those are the expectations.鈥欌��
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鈥淟ike every other contracting company, P1 Group has to deal with the shortage of skilled labor in the PHCP (plumbing, heating, cooling, piping) industry.
To that end, P1 has recently begun supporting local junior colleges, vocational schools, and welding institutes in the Kansas City area. P1 also has started working with high school counselors to reach out to juniors and seniors鈥ho may never have considered a future in the PHPC trades.鈥�
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鈥淎s an example of P1 Group鈥檚 commitment to providing the best customer experience with the industry鈥檚 latest products and services, Knox, [Jeremy] Price, and Mihalchik all cite the company鈥檚 use of Aquatherm pipe.
鈥楨ven though we have the best welders in the industry, we kept an open mind to Aquatherm,鈥� Knox said.
P1 Group has made a significant investment in the heat fusion equipment that is used to join Aquatherm pipe and fittings, and can now offer its fabrication capabilities to various contractors in the area. The equipment purchased by P1 includes three McElroy Spider 125 fusion machines, a McElroy Acrobat 160 fusion machine, an McElroy Acrobat 250 fusion machine, and a McElroy SmartFab table.鈥�
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鈥淧1 Group has worked extensively at Berry Global鈥檚 1.6 million-square-foot thermoforming and injection-molding campus in Lawrence, KS, for more than 30 years.
鈥楶1 Group always makes the extra effort to make sure we get a quality product,鈥� says Jacob Francis, facility supervisor at Berry Global.
As an example, Francis cites P1 Group鈥檚 recommendation of Aquatherm pipe when the Lawrence plant needed to upgrade the chilled water piping for its injection molding process.
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To read the full article and see how P1 came up with the solution for Berry Global鈥檚 corroded steel pipes, .
