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Registration opens for ESX 2025
December 5, 2024SSN Staff
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) has announced that registration is now open for the 2025 Electronic Security Expo (ESX).
This trade show and educational conference, known to dealers and integrators as “The RMR Educational Event of the Year,” is designed by and for electronic security and life safety integrators and dealers. ESX 2025 will be held June 16-19 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Cobb County, Atlanta, Ga.
According to ESA, ESX is an...
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety acquires United Automation
December 5, 2024SSN Staff
ATLANTA—Pye-Barker Fire & Safety has announced the acquisition of United Automation, a fire and security systems integrator with three Louisiana locations in West Monroe, Shreveport and Alexandria.
United Automation – which provides fire and security alarms, access control, video surveillance and systems automation – will strengthen Pye-Barker's efforts to service more customers with full fire code protection.
The addition of United Automation in Louisiana...
Nominations now open for PSA/SSN Integrator of the Year/Bill Bozeman Awards
December 2, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
WESTMINSTER, Colo., and YARMOUTH, Maine—PSA and Security Systems News have announced that nominations are now open for the fourth annual Integrator of the Year/Bill Bozeman Awards, which aspire to identify the leading systems integrators within security, from smaller, local integrators all the way up to the big nationals.
Winners will be awarded at PSA TEC 2025 - taking place March 9-12 at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Denver - and featured within the pages of SSN.
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ASSA ABLOY acquires Premier Steel Doors and Frames
December 2, 2024SSN Staff
STOCKHOLM—ASSA ABLOY has announced the acquisition of Premier Steel Doors and Frames, a U.S. manufacturer of hollow metal doors and frames, metal building door systems, and aluminum windows.
"I am very pleased to welcome Premier into the ASSA ABLOY Group. This acquisition delivers on our strategy to strengthen our position in mature markets through adding complementary products and solutions to our core business,” said Nico Delvaux, president and CEO of ASSA ABLOY.
"Premier...
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety acquires Protect Alarms
November 20, 2024SSN Staff
ATLANTA — Pye-Barker Fire & Safety has acquired Protect Alarms Security Systems, a specialist in security systems, fire detection, alarms and monitoring based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Pye-Barker said that it continues to invest in the Northeast and offers full fire code compliance and complete life safety services to commercial customers in eastern Pennsylvania.
Protect Alarms has been family-run since its founding in 1963 by Albert Taylor, Jr. and offers alarm services, tests and...
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety adds New Jersey’s Systems Design Group
November 11, 2024SSN Staff
ATLANTA — Pye-Barker Fire & Safety has acquired Systems Design Group, which specializes in security alarms, access control, fire detection and monitoring.
Located in Flemington, New Jersey, between New York City and Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pye-Barker said this acquisition enables them to service more customers in the tri-state region.
Systems Design Group (SDG) provides businesses 24/7 surveillance of safety, burglary and fire threats to help aid emergency response, limit property damage...
Johnson Controls builds 'momentum' heading into fiscal 2025
November 8, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
CORK, Ireland—Johnson Controls Chairman and CEO George Oliver says he’s “very pleased” with the strong end to the company’s Q4 and fiscal year results, giving it “momentum” going into fiscal 2025.
During the Q4 earnings call, Oliver cited double-digit organic sales growth and robust margin expansion as the catalysts to the solid numbers Johnson Controls shared with investors on Nov. 6.
“Today, we are a faster-growing, more...
ASSA ABLOY acquires Lawrence Doors
November 6, 2024SSN Staff
STOCKHOLM — ASSA ABLOY has acquired Lawrence Doors, a U.S. manufacturer of coiling steel doors, grilles and counter shutters.
Lawrence Doors was founded in 1925 and has some 120 employees. The main office and factory are located in Baldwin Park, Calif. Lawrence Doors will be part of the Business Segment Residential within the Entrance Systems Division.
"I am very pleased to welcome Lawrence Doors into the ASSA ABLOY Group. This acquisition delivers on our strategy to strengthen our...
ESA: FTC’s click-to-cancel rule 'imposes unnecessary and unlawful burdens’
November 6, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) is steadfast in its opposition to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) newly adopted click-to-cancel rule, which allows consumers to cancel subscriptions more easily.
On Oct. 22, 2024, ESA filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to block the rule, which was announced on Oct. 16, and which requires sellers to offer subscribers “a way to cancel that’s as quick and easy as it...
ESA files petition for review regarding FTC’s click-to-cancel rule
October 31, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) announced that on Oct. 22, 2024, it filed a petition for review with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to block the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) newly adopted click-to-cancel rule, which allows consumers to cancel subscriptions more easily.
The petition, which ESA filed jointly with the NCTA – The Internet & Television Association and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, seeks an order vacating...