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Victaulic Co. of Canada has named Gary Moore as president.

Industrial Information Resources of Houston is forecasting 735 new plant startups to come online in 2003, a slight improvement from 705 counted in 2002.

Flo-Safe Inc. (Kansas City, Kan.) has named Rick Siberine national sales manager.

Chief financial officers of U.S. companies are much more optimistic about the U.S. economy than they were last quarter, according to the December "CFO Outlook Survey," conducted by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Three more steel companies have filed for Chapter 11.

Mike Abeling of Consumers Pipe & Supply Co. was elected IPD chairman at the ASA convention in Toronto last October.

IPSCO Inc. announced on Dec. 9 that local unions ratified a collective bargaining agreement.

Wolverine Tube has named Bill McKinstry as national sales manager, Canada.

NS Group announced in November that workers in the company's seamless tubular facility in Pennsylvania, Koppel Steel Corp., had ratified a new labor agreement.

Plastic Trends, Inc. (PTI) has appointed three new vice presidents to an expanded sales division.