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Fireplace Maintenance Tips & Safety You Don’t Want to Ignore Your gas-burning fireplace is a real convenience and, compared to wood burning, has a low maintenance factor. Like any other appliance, to keep it running safely and efficiently, we highly recommend it be serviced yearly. Several potential problems can occur with any type of…
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Propane inventories of all heating energy sources – including propane – are running at historic lows. The unprecedented demand for propane has been driven by an unusually late and wet crop season in the Midwest in the fall followed by high demand for home heating gas due to the lowest sustained temperatures since the 1970s.…
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This winter we’ve experienced frigid temperatures and extreme amounts of snow. After receiving the pummeling we have this winter, it’s sometimes easy to take for granted the havoc that winter storms can create in our home and life. We’d like to take time to provide resources and touch on a few points of interest surrounding…
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Paraco Corp. CEO Joe Armentano credits the company’s growth to its focus on quality employees and strategic acquisitions—31 and counting since its inception. It took more than 40 years for propane supplier Paraco Corporation to achieve $100 million in annual sales. But in the last five years, Rye Brook-based Paraco—which evolved from a welding supply…
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The New York Propane Gas Association held a Propane Industry Responder Conference at the Nassau County Fire Service Academy and Morelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, NY on April 26 and 27th. The event was extremely successful bringing together more than 80 propane industry and fire service personnel. Fire Service personnel from all over Long…
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RYE BROOK, NY – September 19, 2014 – Paraco Corporation is pleased to announce that Dan Kostecki has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. He comes to Paraco with over 20 years of management and sales experience. Most recently, Dan served as Northeast Regional Sales Manager at ADT Security Services, where he managed…
Read MoreIn Connecticut, propane sold for use to fuel a home electric generator is subject to the state’s gross receipts tax. But what about mixed-use tanks that supply both an electric generator and other appliances, such as a furnace for home heating? The state’s Department of Revenue Services has issued a ruling that in such mixed-use…
Read MoreDate: 02/15/2018 Rye Brook, New York Through the Home Depot Foundation which donates millions of dollars each year to victims of natural disasters and supports military veterans via multiple organizations, Paraco recently participated in the Foundation’s latest fund-raising event with a $25,000 silver-level sponsorship as well as volunteered labor to the physical event. Paraco has…
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Propane Fireplace Inserts – Make Your Hearth Hassle-Free! If you have a great looking fireplace mantle that doesn’t work very well–or if you crave the cozy feel of a fire but hate the hassles of a wood-burning fireplace–a propane fireplace insert might be just right for you. Propane fireplace inserts are self-contained heating boxes that…
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