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SMACNA Highlight: Stamped Grilles

Posted by Price Industries on November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Designed to Simplify Your Install

Price Industries is proud to be a Gold Associate Member of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA). In our SMACNA Highlight blog series, we’ll be featuring news, tips and tricks tailored to the skilled contractors who install, coordinate and deliver HVAC systems across North America.

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Topics: GRD, Grilles, HVAC, Contractors

GRD in Real Life

Posted by Ryan Johnson on November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Cool Tips and Hot Takes for Air Distribution Design

At Price, we pride ourselves on our contributions to The Science of Comfort™ (we have the phrase trademarked, after all). If you’re a regular reader of the blog, you’ll understand the rigorous testing and research behind all the air distribution solutions we manufacture. Our team at Price Research Center North (PRCN) in Winnipeg, MB, is accustomed to maintaining the highest test standards and methodologies behind the data published in our catalog.

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Topics: GRD, Diffusers, ASHRAE 70, Inlet Effect, Grilles, Static Pressure, Pressure Drop, Inlet Conditions, Mock-Up, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Tech Tip

What Is a Filter Frame Grille?

Posted by Ryan Compton on September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Expertly Designed With Simplicity in Mind

Filter frame grilles are an elegant solution for providing filtration on the return-air side of your air distribution system. Return grilles supplied with a filter frame make it easy to access filter media from the room side using face-operable latches.

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Topics: GRD, Grilles, HVAC Fundamentals, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Filtration

How Does Air Move Through a Room?

Posted by Ryan Johnson on January 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Determining the Right Amount of Airflow for a Space

At Price, we pride ourselves on being industry leaders in room air distribution. Our manufactured products are designed around a common goal: to keep the room air clean, dry and comfortable. This is often accomplished by blowing a jet of conditioned, fresh air through a grille, register or diffuser (GRD) throughout a room to properly ventilate it.

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Topics: GRD, Diffusers, Grilles, Displacement, Underfloor, Thermal Comfort, HVAC Fundamentals, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering, Tech Tip

Updated HVAC Guidelines from the NYS-OMH

Posted by Price Industries on February 27, 2024 at 9:16 AM

A Look at Air Distribution and Patient Safety Standards

Patient care is constantly evolving, and these changes impact how we design spaces within psychiatric care facilities – including the components for air distribution systems. Patient health and safety is at the forefront of design considerations, but a challenge faced by many HVAC designers is a lack of guidance as to what types of air inlets and outlets should be installed in these unique spaces.

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Topics: GRD, Diffusers, Grilles, HVAC, Engineering, Design Engineering

At Price, when we say “the sky is the limit,” we actually mean it.

Our customers have come to count on a consistent and ever-increasing stream of new products and enhancements.  Price has a large team of experienced and talented engineers who are consistently working on breakthrough ideas.  We are not afraid to move into whole new product categories if we believe we have a contribution to make.

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