Entries by Steve Kowalski

KHT Tips for Staying Warm

Beauty and the Beast. Winter snows can certainly be beautiful but getting to work can occasionally be brutal. Case in point: Cleveland Plain Dealer front page from Friday, January 27, 1978. B-r-r-r-r-r-r.   As you know, heat management is something we take very serious here at KHT. And with the weather starting to shift, and […]

I Wouldn’t Trade This For The World.

It’s been fun this anniversary year looking back at what happened 40 years ago when Dad started KHT. Inventions, patents, new products, sports milestones, technology, politics, singers, music, culture – so much to reflect on. And while reading Dec 11, ’75 history this morning, something caught my eye – a simple sports trade. In 1975, […]

Light My Fire

Crackling fire courtesy of Giphy.com   With the change in weather, and our move indoors here on the north shore, I thought it would be a good time to share with you some tips on building the perfect indoors fire. Being experts at heat treating, we take fire and heat very seriously, as for many […]

“We are holding our own.”

Honoring the SS Edmond Fitzgerald Various paintings, newspaper headlines and news photos. Upper right: Namesake, Edmund Fitzgerald, president of Northwestern Mutual, stands in front of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in July 1959. (Image credit: Wisconsin Marine Historical Society) Second row from bottom, far left: Bay Village resident, John H. McCarthy, First Mate.   As I […]