Designer of Calumet Water Reclamation Plant Wins Steinmetz Award
Congratulations to Frank Macino of Intelligent Design & Construction Solutions! Paramont EO was glad to supply and support this complex, award-worthy project.
Illinois Plans to use IoT to “Get Smart”
The City of Chicago Technology Plan outlines a roadmap in which leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors work together to build stronger companies and a smarter city, using big data, civic engagement, and technology start-up incubation (Letter from Mayor Rahm Emanuel). The past 18 months have shown significant strides towards realizing this vision. […]
Excellence in Sales and Marketing
Paramont EO was extremely proud to be selected as a finalist for this year’s “Excellence in Sales and Marketing” award during the 2016 Imark Fall meeting. Imark has an impressive membership of 185 independent electrical distributors with over 950 locations nationwide, so to make the shortlist with industry giants such as Walters/CED and Mayer Electric […]
Paramont Go Promo
Paramont EO & Crest Lighting ran a promotion in August that caught the attention of Residential Lighting. The full article is on page 20 of the September issue Thanks for the mention! #ParamontGo
The Illinois Mechanics Lien Act…and Other Construction Stuff
NACM Connect and Paramont EO are proud to announce the availability of a new book, The Illinois Mechanics Lien Act…and Other Construction Stuff, by Norm Cowie, Director of Credit at Paramont EO. For over a decade Norm Cowie, CCE, has been writing an award-winning column for the NACM Connect newsletter, the InterConnection. His column breaks […]
Market for Data Centers in Chicago is “Bull”ish
Sometimes it’s good to be in the middle…in the case of data center locations, the midwest, and Chicagoland in particular, seems to be a sweet spot. For Cloud Services providers, Chicago’s suburbs offer the space and infrastructure to support colocation facilities for increasingly popular hybrid cloud strategies, as well as act as a latency-reducing bridge […]
Paramont EO — Now Delivering: Virtual Counter Days
Your time is money, and you make more of that in the field, so we’ve started recording highlights from our Counter Days so you don’t have to miss out on the valuable new information and product news our manufacturer reps want to share. Check out a few recent uploads below: Nuheat Counter Day Klein Tools […]
Power to the People, Places, and Things
When we first started talking about how the IoT and electrical supply industry would intersect, it was with a general awareness that on some level the very way we supply power would likely have to evolve. A recent article published in the September 2016 issue of electroindustry, which is in turn based on a new […]
What you need to know about GFCIs
Electrical Contractor Magazine published an article this week on what Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCIs) do, and perhaps more importantly, do NOT do. Understanding the use cases and differences between GFCIs and AFCIs is a safety essential (see our previous blog on Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters for a refresher). Understanding how GFCIs work and what […]