Grinberg, who died earlier this summer at the age of 91, spent more than seven decades in the industry, building many companies into sustained successes.
To gain proper insight into the type of personindustrial PVF icon Ismael Grinberg was, one need not go much farther than the story his son, Gyl, recently told me.
The scene was a pipe mill in Mexico where numerous distributors were summoned, including Grinberg (more on the Mexico connection in a second). The mill had quotas set that distributors needed to reach in order to become or remain a type-A distributor (best pricing, biggest discounts).