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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.

Investigators from the U.S. Dept. of Justice, along with counterparts from Canada, Japan and the European Union made coordinated raids in mid-February on 14 chemical companies around the world that produce stabilisers and other components used to make PVC.

YCV (Houston) has changed its name to Yamatake America, to better identify with its parent company.

The Process Industries Exposition has decided not to hold its 2003 event scheduled for March 31 to April 2 in New Orleans owing to "current economic conditions."

The original owners of Colonial Mechanical Corp. of Richmond, Va., and Webb Technologies of Norfolk, Va., bought those companies back from Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp.

Cooper Cameron (Houston) has acquired Nutron Industries of Edmonnton, Alberta, a privately-held valve manufacturer, for a reported $50 million in cash.

This plastic toilet seat cleans and sanitizes itself in 15 seconds by rotating through a hygiene sluice that dispenses a citrus-scented, germ-killing solution on the seat's surface.

Flowserve Corp. appointed John J. Jacko to the newly created position of vice president/ marketing and customer management.