What does this mean for you?

Cost and Availability
Currently the price of R22 is 7X the cost of current refrigerants (R407C and R410A) and increasing every day, AND many supply houses are limiting the quantity per sale to avoid stock piling. Reclaimed R22 will be available after 2020, but its price is expected to increase.

Options to Eliminate R22 at Your Facility
What can you do if you currently have Data Center Air Conditioners with R22? Now is the time to plan for the future. You essentially have 3 choices:

• Stick it out with R22 knowing that future repairs will be expensive
• Retrofit the unit with a new refrigerant…This is not recommended due to potential incompatible piping, devices, loss of capacity, and a decrease in efficiency
• Replace the units with new compliant refrigerants units that are designed to deliver higher efficiencies. The Vertiv™ Liebert® DSE is a great choice.

Contact Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Beck at 215.826.1158 to learn more.

When it comes to running a cost efficient and energy efficient data center, science is key. More specifically, the science behind tried and true tools and calculators can go a long way. Before you try to reinvent the wheel, check out DVL's invaluable resources, including several from Vertiv and Geist, that will help you optimize your data center's power and cooling.

Currently, we have seven great tools that will help you determine your infrastructure's sizing, power, and thermal needs. These resources include:

• DVL Design Your Data Center Worksheet
• Vertiv PDU/UPS Selector
• Vertiv Power Product Selector
• Geist PDU Finder
• Liebert VSD and Liebert EC Fan Upgrades Calculator
• Vertiv Free Cooling Economozier Calculator
• Vertiv Digital Scroll Compressor Energy Savings

Learn more or get started today.

On Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, DVL Group held an awards ceremony to honor associates who have made outstanding contributions to the company in 2016. In addition, associates who have recently achieved milestone anniversaries with the company were recognized.

Congratulations to all of the award recipients, shown below!
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Eagle Award Recipient Tina Penn (center), with CEO Gary Hill and Sanja Motz, VP of Service Operations  This award is given to the sales person who delivers outstanding service.	Owner of the Year Award Recipient Helene Laurusevage and CEO Gary Hill This award is given to the associate who cares about the company and finds ways to make improvements that will benefit our ESOP.
	Customer Champion Award Recipient Rich McKinney was not able to attend in person because he was on a job site. Ray Fegley and Bob Gusciora presented the award to him via speakerphone. This award is given to the associate who has been identified by a DVL customer as an outstanding asset to their operations.
Core Values Award Recipient Jenniffer Pineda and CEO Gary Hill This award is given to the associate who best represents DVL’s Core Values of Caring, Collaboration, Creativity, Integrity, and Professionalism.
35 Years Lissa Wolf, pictured with CEO Gary Hill	30 Years John DeFlores pictured with CEO Gary Hill (Not pictured: Joe Everman)
20 Years (L-R) Joe Bedics, Gary Hill, Gary Halliwell, and Rick Stahmer	15 Years (L-R) John Yacina, CEO Gary Hill, and Kevin Bender
10 Years (L-R) Kerry Shepherd, Sean Delaney, CEO Gary Hill, Bill Highlands, and Jim Boyle. Not pictured: Rich McKinney, Buddy Nestor, Annie Samuel	5 Years (L-R) Nick Babiak, Sean Murphy, Leigh Ann Kearney, CEO Gary Hill, Clayton Mitstifer, and Jill Kennedy. Not pictured: Deanne Krisch.

Data center solutions company lauds new CEO and Executives

Bristol, Pa. – (Jan. 12, 2017) – As of the first of the year, DVL Group, an employee-owned data center solutions company, appointed Gary Hill as its new CEO. Mr. Hill, who has been with the company for over 20 years, is the company’s fourth CEO since its founding in 1985. He most recently served as President of Data Center Solutions prior to succeeding former CEO Michael Beck.

Simultaneously, Mr. Beck transitioned from the role of CEO to Chief Marketing Officer. In this newly formed position, he will focus on his passion of marketing, as his 33 years of experience in the industry will serve as a major asset to his efforts. A main goal of his is to work with Marketing Specialist, Jodi Holland, to communicate to the marketplace how DVL can solve their IT challenges and to empower employee-owners to expertly serve customers...

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While DVL celebrated its 30^th anniversary last year, it has only been operating as an employee owned company for the last 10 years. Since DVL participates in an Employee Stock Ownership program (ESOP), all employees have a stake in the company’s future. It has long been shown that the “employee owners” at employee owned businesses have a more positive attitude about their company and how they perform their work responsibilities on a daily basis. This, of course, means a more successful company, which the employees then benefit from, which encourages them to work even harder, which makes them even more successful, and so on, and so on.

So, why be an employee, when you can be an owner? DVL is currently looking for great talent to join the team. Learn more about our open positions and other employee benefits.

Also, check out these interesting ESOP statistics:

• There are approximately 10,000 ESOPs in place in the U.S., covering 10.3 million employees (10% of the private sector workforce).
• About 330 ESOPs - 3% - are in publicly traded companies.
• An estimated 7,000 of the 10,000 companies have ESOPs that are large enough to be a major factor in the corporation's strategy and culture.
• Approximately 5,000 ESOP companies are majority-owned by the ESOP.
• Approximately 4,000 are 100% owned by the ESOP.
• While ESOPs are found in all industries, 22% of them are in the manufacturing sector.
• An overwhelming majority of ESOP companies have other retirement and/or savings plans, such as defined benefit pension plans or 401(k) plans, to supplement their ESOP.
• Of the 10,000 employee-owned companies nationwide, fewer than 2% were financially distressed when they established their ESOP.
• Total assets owned by U.S. ESOPs is estimated to be approximately $940 billion at the end of 2011.

Source: The ESOP Association http://www.esopassociation.org/