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Chart NAHB Wells Fargo HMI and Single-Family Housing Starts

Builder confidence edges higher in April

April 18, 2019

Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes rose one point to 63 in April, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released on April 16, 2019. Sentiment levels have held in the low 60s for the past three months.

ASPE joins ASHRAE and NSF to develop standard on managing disease risk in building water systems

April 18, 2019

The committee will use NSF 444: Prevention of Injury and Disease Associated with Building Water Systems as the base document.

U.S. drinking water products standards published as National Standards of Canada

April 18, 2019

American National Standards for health effects of drinking water treatment chemicals (NSF/ANSI 60) and drinking water system components (NSF/ANSI 61) updated for the Canadian market and published as National Standards of Canada.

Reece Limited announces fiscal 2019 half-year results

April 18, 2019

MORSCO parent company sales up 104%.

Winsupply announces local company awards

April 18, 2019

Odessa Winlectric earns top honor.

Eye on Safety: Workplace violence awareness

Shawna Neilson

April 18, 2019

Violence has unfortunately become an all too common problem in the workplace.

Bruce Merrifield: The war on CRaP

When will Amazon’s private-label clones target your profit-cow SKUs?

Bruce Merrifield

April 17, 2019

Amazon’s analytics can identity SKUs on which it “Can’t Realize a Profit” (CRaP). Even with its improving, world’s best fulfillment and last-mile delivery costs, Amazon can’t cover costs on items lower than $15 per pick/order.

WIT & Co. poised for more success

Texas-based cooperative reports record-breaking 2018.

Mike Miazga

April 16, 2019

It was a record-breaking 2018 for the Irving, Texas-based WIT & Co. buying group. WIT Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Brandy Reed told Supply House Times during the cooperative’s recent annual Distributor and Vendor Conference in Grapevine, Texas, that 2018 purchases within the group rose to record-breaking levels.

Rep firm Harry Eklof & Associates celebrates five decades

Boots in the field and empowerment of employees continue to drive Maryland-based manufacturers rep.

Dan Vastyan

April 16, 2019

What does it take to open, sustain and grow a successful manufacturers representative firm over a half-century?

Armstrong unveils six new models of intelligent design envelope pumps

April 15, 2019

Armstrong Fluid Technology announced the availability of six new Design Envelope pump models engineered specifically for low-flow, high-head applications.