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ADC Active Membership Benefits
Membership Meetings
ADC Active Members have the opportunity to meet two times each year.
The ADC Fall Membership Meeting is generally always held in October or November in the conjunction with the convention sponsored by
Heating, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International,
(HARDI formerly NHRAW).
The ADC Spring Membership Meeting is generally held in May on a Tuesday and Wednesday.
The location varies and the city site is selected by vote of the members.
The evening before the ADC Membership Meeting, the ADC Associate Members sponsor a Reception and Dinner.
These evening affairs provide a great social opportunity the meet your present suppliers, potential suppliers and your fellow flexible duct manufacturers.
The ADC also schedules a Golf Outing on the Thursday morning following the Membership Meeting.
Web Site Listing
ADC Active Members are listed and linked on the official ADC Web site www.flexibleduct.org.
Company logo, key personnel contacts, email addresses, etc. are shown and reviewed regularly.
Printed Membership Directory
ADC Active Members receive updated copies of the ADC Active Member Directory and Associate Member Directory twice each year.
These are invaluable resources for finding suppliers, contacting other flexible duct manufacturers and networking, etc.
Statistics Program
ADC Active Members have the opportunity to voluntarily participate in a Quarterly Statistics Reporting Program, now in its 10th year.
The Quarterly Statistics Reporting Program gathers flexible duct footage sales by commodity type.
See the sample Quarterly Statistics Reporting Form for categories.
Each participating company is furnished a reporting code so as to assure the data is kept confidential.
Only ADC staff sees these reports and is responsible for compiling, tabulating and issuing the reports and only to those companies participating in the program.
These reports are an excellent planning and forecasting tool for flexible duct manufacturers because the reports show sales and production trends.
Credit Alert Service
In the fall of 2008, the ADC instituted a new Active Member service - the ADC Credit Alert Service.
The purpose of the Credit Alert Service is to provide ADC Active Members access to information concerning prospective accounts that may be on hold,
in collection, litigation, bankruptcy or otherwise experiencing payment problems with another Active Member.
The Credit Alert Service works like this.
An ADC Active Member completes and submits a copy of the Credit Alert Service official reporting form
to ADC headquarters when an account is more than 30 days beyond the agreed upon terms and after all reasonable efforts
have been made by the Active Member to secure payment.
The Active Member who submits the reporting form is required to contact ADC headquarters immediately
when there is cause to remove or change the status of the account.
When another ADC Active Member contacts ADC headquarters requesting information on a potential customer,
headquarters will check the file and furnish the following information:
If "no", there is not an current alert on this customer, or yes, there is a current alert on this customer.
If "yes", headquarters will contact the ADC Active Member who originally submitted the Credit Alert
to determine if the information on file is current and accurate.
If the information on file is still current and accurate, headquarters will provide the inquiring ADC Active Member
with information on when the Credit Alert was filed and for what reason.
The ADC Active Member who submitted the Credit Alert will not be identified.
Thermal Performance Certification Program
The ADC and Underwriters Laboratories have established a program to evaluate listed flexible air ducts and flexible air connectors for
thermal resistance properties in accordance with the ADC Flexible Duct Performance & Installation Standard (1996) using ASTM C-518 (1991)
at installed wall thickness on flat insulation only.
Look for this marking on flexible duct products:
The ADC has established a voluntary thermal performance certification program in which ADC Active Member companies producing flexible ducts can particiate.
Both the ADC thermal performance certification program and the laboratory testing program, provided by Underwriters Laboratories Inc. and Intertek Testing Services,
are the result of the need for a uniform and verifiable system for certifying the thermal properties of flexible air ducts and flexible air connectors.
ADC Active Member product which have been evaluated per this standard will bear this official ADC Seal of Certification:
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