A new e-commerce Web site allows plant managers to order MRO materials over the Internet whenever they are needed.

A study indicates that, while cost efficiencies are still a high priority with procurement professionals, an inability or unwillingness to effectively use new technology has resulted in a stall in achieving those goals.

The online marketplace MetalSite announced eight new sellers, all service centers. The company also announced that initial testing of a steel-products catalog was successful.

PVF master distributor Ta Chen plans to appeal a July decision by the Department of Commerce to impose a 32% antidumping margin on welded stainless-steel pipe imported from Taiwan between June 22, 1992, and Nov. 30, 1994.

The American Pipe Fittings Association will hold its fall meeting Sept. 12-14 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

I.D. One elected its board of directors for the upcoming year at a shareholder meeting in Chicago.

Canadian master distributor M.A. Stewart & Sons has established an office and warehouse in Charlotte, N.C. The facility will function as a master distributor of commercial and industrial valves for all industries.

According to a survey by Industrial Distribution magazine, the Internet will be an essential part of doing business in the next century.

Demand for pipe in the United States is expected to increase 2/4% per year to 14.7 billion ft. in the year 2003, according to a new study from the Freedonia Group.

The industrial segment has missed out on the boom in the construction industry, due largely to the global economy and the accompanying sharp increases in imported goods, according to Cahners Economics.