Page 4 Local Business Today • Friday, March 28, 2025
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35 Years of Piping Excellence in Apple Valley
In 1990, a company called Wirsbo opened its North American headquarters and manufacturing facility on the corner of Johnny Cake Ridge Road and 148th Street West in Apple Valley.
Fast forward 35 years later, and that company has transitioned from Uponor to GF and expanded with facilities in Lakeville and Hutchinson to create a piping powerhouse, manufacturing PEX for plumbing, fire safety, and radiant heating and cooling.
What is PEX? It’ s an acronym for crosslinked polyethylene, and it has displaced copper and other piping materials in residential and commercial projects due to its flexibility, corrosion resistance, and ease of installation.
Now as GF Building Flow Solutions, the company’ s mission is to solve the challenges of our time: the increasing demand for energy-efficient and affordable buildings, inviting and safe homes, and access to clean and safe drinking water.
GF Building Flow Solutions is Leading with Water, unleashing water’ s great potential as a resource to make buildings better, facilitate progress, and enable our customers to be more productive and sustainable, ensuring comfort, health, and efficiency for all.
Recognized as a Top Workplace for more than a decade as well as an award-winning manufacturing facility for production, efficiency, and safety, GF Building Flow Solutions is continuing to bring excellence to customers, employees, the community, and the industry.
Join our team and People First culture dedicated to innovative manufacturing and building solutions that improve our world.
Learn more at uponorjobs. com
Convenient 24 / 7 rentals now available at Crown Rental
Burnsville’ s best equipment and event rental store just got better. You can now pick up what you need in storage lockers located outside the store at your convenience. Call the store or search their website to place an order. Then pick up your item in a locker when it works best for you.
Crown Rental is your best friend in an off-hour emergency. Lose electricity? Sewer backed up? Tree branch fall on your car? Go online to crownrent. com and click the yellow 24 / 7 button in the upper right area of the home page. Find and order the generator, sewer snake or chainsaw you desperately need and head to the locker.
The technology is simple. Once you’ ve placed your order, watch for an email with a QR code that, when scanned, unlocks and opens the locker. After grabbing your rental item and closing the locker, watch for another email and QR code which you’ ll use to open the locker upon return.
One of the storage lockers is large enough to accommodate things like tables and chairs or other midsized items. For these, you’ ll need to speak with a staff person to set up the rental.
Crown Rental’ s management team has 60 + years of experience in the rental business. They’ ve shared their knowledge with the staff to ensure you get the right equipment which is always in excellent working condition. Visit the store, call or text them for information.
Besides equipment and event rentals, Crown Rental also can print vinyl logos, DOT numbers, other decals, banners and more on their large format vinyl printer.
Don’ t’ forget, all three Crown Rental locations are authorized STIHL dealers offering sales, service and rental of one of the top outdoor powered equipment brands in the world.
All of their locations also fill propane tanks. Did you know that by filling your tank versus exchanging it, you can get up to 25 % more propane? Swing by one of Crown Rental’ s locations next time you need propane to get the most bang for your buck.
Visit Crown Rental today! It’ s located at 1580 Cliff Road East, Burnsville, 55337. Along with stores in Rosemount and Apple Valley as well.
Contact information: 952-894-7368( call or text!) or at crownrent. com.
Burnsville: 1580 E. Cliff Road 952-894-7368
Rosemount: 15211 Canada Avenue West 651-423-7368
Apple Valley: 7661 146th Street West 952-432-6343