Weekly Product Gallery: Sloan, Viega, HTP, Franklin Electric, Navien, Aalberts

This week's gallery spotlights a commercial integrated sink system for touchless handwashing, a wafer check valve with a compact and lightweight design, an indirect-fired water heater with a dedicated recirculation port, a pressure boosting system with preprogrammed variable-frequency drives and modular pump assemblies, a heat pump water heater that considers user height and viewing angle, and fire-safe valves with secondary sealing mechanisms that automatically engage once the primary soft seats are compromised.

Kelly L. Faloon

Oct. 31, 2025

About the Author

Kelly L. Faloon

Freelance Writer/Editor

Kelly L. Faloon is a contributing editor and writer to Contractor, Contracting Business magazine and HPAC Engineering and principal of Faloon Editorial Services. The former editor of Plumbing & Mechanical magazine, Faloon has more than 26 years of experience in the plumbing and heating industry and more than 35 years in B2B publishing. She started a freelance writing and editing business in 2017, where she has a varied clientele.

Faloon spent 3 1/2 years at Supply House Times before joining the Plumbing & Mechanical staff in 2001. Previously, she spent nearly 10 years at CCH/Wolters Kluwer, a publishing firm specializing in business and tax law, where she wore many hats — proofreader, writer/editor for a daily tax publication, and Internal Revenue Code editor.

A native of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, Faloon is a journalism graduate of Michigan State University. You can reach her at [email protected].