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The NAPPS story begins with Roy L. Napps. He began working in the heating and air conditioning industry in his early 40s, when he took a job with a leading Tyler Texas based Air Conditioning Company. He worked there until World War II began when he went into the Army and served until 1946. He served in different capacities during the war, but much of his time was spent in responsible charge of maintaining military heating and refrigeration equipment in India. He gained valuable experience in the industry during the war and completed college level courses in the refrigeration and air conditioning field while he was in the service. After the war, he returned to the Tyler based air conditioning company and moved up rapidly in the organization because of his work ethic and problem solving ability. The decision was made in the early 1950s to have Roy Napps open a branch operation in Longview. He directed the construction of the branch office facility in Longview and began building the business in the Longview area. Business grew over the next few years under Roy’s leadership, but the decision was made in the mid 1950s to close the Longview office and bring all work back to the main Tyler office. The Napps family moved back to Tyler and Roy returned to the Tyler office. He served in Tyler, but his desire was to return to Longview and serve the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration needs there. Within a year Roy Napps gave notice, returned to Longview and started Roy Napps Air Conditioning Company in 1957. The air conditioning business was very different in the 1950s. There were very few air conditioning companies, and central heating and air conditioning systems had to be custom designed for each application. Packaged air-conditioning equipment as we know it today, was not available. Players in the heating and air conditioning market had to be skilled in manually running load calculations for the area to be conditioned, and then proficient in selecting each heating and air conditioning component, such as blowers, coils, pumps, compressors, expansion valves, and piping to affect the installation of a balanced system that would meet the application requirements. This is particularly true of the commercial and industrial market where Roy Napps chose to focus his business. Roy Napps started the business at home with his wife Pauline operating the office and the business quickly grew. He began doing heating and air conditioning work for some of the largest commercial and industrial accounts in East Texas. These accounts included hospitals, multistory hotels, office buildings, and process plants. One of the early systems he designed and installed was used for blast freezing meat in a meat packing plant. The system quickly chilled 100s of pounds of meat to 40 degrees below zero in a matter of minutes. Texas Eastman opened it operation in Longview in the mid 1950s and Roy Napps Air Conditioning Company was engaged to support the plant with heating, ventilating, air conditioning and process refrigeration system installations, service and maintenance.

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