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The U.S. International Trade Commission voted recently to expedite its five-year (“sunset”) review concerning the antidumping duty order on imports of non-malleable cast-iron pipe fittings from China.

Jomar International and Fratelli Pettinaroli hosted an International Sales Meeting the week of May 19, 2008, in Northern Italy.

Economic growth in the United States is sustainable throughout the remainder of 2008, said the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in their spring 2008 Semiannual Economic Forecast issued by the Business Survey Committee of the Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM).

Victaulic Co.’s vice president of fire protection and new business, John E. Perry, passed away May 1. He was 61.

PVF distributor Deacon Industrial Supply Co. announced the appointment of Dan Tropea to director of Purchasing.

Multalloy, a specialty stainless and nickel alloy PVF, plate and round bar distributor, has moved warehouse facilities to Santa Fe Springs, CA.

The new plant will allow the company to offer its pipe and fittings systems from Colorado west to the Pacific Ocean.

SSAB has divested its IPSCO Tubulars operations to Russia’s Evraz Group for $4.025 billion (U.S.) in cash.

Curtiss-Wright Corp. said that it has received orders from Westinghouse Electric Co. to provide four generation II reactor coolant pumps and pump seals supporting the completion of Unit 2 of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Watts Bar nuclear power plant.

The Wall Street Journal reported in its April 11 edition that Southern Co.’s Hatch nuclear power plant in Georgia turned up a couple of fake water valves accompanied by paperwork indicating they supposedly were made by “Ladish Co. of Houston, Texas.”