Lawrence E. Wetzel

Lawrence E. Wetzel, PE, chairman of the board of Air Innovations Inc., was recently honored with the HPAC Engineering magazine’s Engineer of the Year award. A licensed professional engineer in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California, Wetzel holds contractors’ licenses in those states as well as in Florida and Virginia. Additionally, he has seven U.S. patents and one European patent, with other patents pending in Europe and Canada. His 1983 design of the first packaged and modular air conditioning system for the clean room industry, AdvancAir, is used for environmental control of temperature, humidity and air quality in the manufacture of semiconductors and other electronics and pharmaceuticals. Wetzel’s most recent designs include the HEPAiRx, the Wine Guardian Through-the-Wall and the IsolationAir.