Wolverine Tube's Ardmore, Tenn., manufacturing facility received the Silver STAG Award from ITT Hartford Insurance for maintaining an injury-free workplace throughout 1998.
The officers and board members of the Pacific Southwest Distributors Association and the Western Suppliers Association recently agreed to "pursue and implement" a combined annual meeting by the spring of 2001.
Westburne executed a letter of intent for a strategic alliance between its Industrial Products Group in Canada and Apex Industrial Supply Ltd., an industrial supply distributor based in Moncton, New Brunswick.