William Sanford will step down from the role of
president and chief operating officer effective immediately, but will remain with the
company during a transition period.
Refron will continue to market as Refron, and
will be integrated with Airgas’ existing refrigerant and reclamation business
into a new company, Airgas Refrigerants Inc.
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.
The
National Disaster Reconstruction Expo (NDRExpo) was developed to unite the numerous vertical markets
associated with disaster reconstruction preparation, response, recovery and
rebuilding.