FUELS
By Stephen Bennett
"T
he propane industry is continuing
to grow in customers and gallons,"
said Joe Rose, president and chief
executive officer of the Propane Gas
Association of New England, orga-
nizer of the show, which ran Aug. 6-7 in Boxborough,
Mass. "Also there are new entrants as more and more
fuel oil companies diversify into propane."
In its third year, the show featured more than 140
exhibitors, and the 1,135 registered attendees repre-
sented a 3% increase compared to the 2013 show, Rose
said. The event was held at a Holiday Inn: attendees
walked the show floor and attended seminars inside,
while trucks, including propane-powered pickup trucks
and trucks for delivering the fuel were displayed under a
big tent pitched in the hotel parking lot.
Rose's sentiment is echoed by one of those exhibitors.
Doering Equipment Co. in Franklin, Mass., is busy. "It's
been a great couple of years," Peter Doering said. "Propane's
going strong." Doering and his father Donald were at the
Northeast Propane Show with a truck they built for Bursaw
Gas & Oil of Stow, Mass. The truck, for delivering propane
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Propane Heating Up
The propane business is good these days—that's the word from
some attendees and the organizers of the Northeast Propane Show
