Terry Sherman, 54, vice president of sales at Milwaukee Valve, died suddenly March 5 while attending a trade show in Dallas.

Bill Geers and Wayne Grabowski from NIBCO presented John Wadlington of Chicago-based Columbia Pipe & Supply with the award for Top U.S. Distributor of NIBCO Actuation Products.

Merit Brass Co. won an "e-Volution in Manufacturing" award for its EDI initiatives.

PW Eagle Inc. has split its operations into two core business units.

Puget Sound Pipe & Supply has been named by Bechtel National as supplier to the $5.6 billion Hanford Waste Treatment Plant being built near Richland, Wash.

It's not just ordinary carbon steel anymore for refineries and many other PVF users in process industries that generate hydrogen fluoride (HF), a poisonous gas that when dissolved in water produces hydrofluoric acid.

Red-White Valve Corp. was acquired by the Italian valve manufacturer VIR.

John Stupp Jr., executive vice president and COO of Baton Rouge, La.-based Stupp Bros. and CEO of Stupp Corp., will assume the additional duty of president of Stupp Corp.

Baton Rouge, La.-based Edgen Corp. has integrated the company's four carbon pipe and piping components divisions.

The U.S. International Trade Commission determined that the U.S. industry is threatened with material injury by imports of non-malleable cast iron pipe fittings from China sold in the United States at less than fair value.