Mike Miazga: The ASA Files

Mike Miazga: It's all in the numbers

ASA business intelligence department provides important data for members.

June 8, 2021

Here at the American Supply Association, numbers also are a big deal, and ASA members are encouraged to get in on the fun through a pair of reports published by our business intelligence department.

Mike Miazga: No ordinary lab experiments

Live events return as ASA is hard at work performing research for members.

Mike Miazga

May 6, 2021

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When I was in middle and high school, I always worried about the gas valves that were at my work station during science/chemistry classes. What if an explosion occurred? What if someone left the valve open? Do these things even work?

Mike Miazga: A is for advocacy

ASA’s continues fighting for our industry through dogged legislative and codes and standards efforts.

Mike Miazga

March 29, 2021

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Before I get into this month’s key thoughts related to important ASA efforts, I would like to bring to further light the recent unexpected death of longtime respected industry trade journalist Bob Mader.

Mike Miazga: PHCP-PVF industry continues to step up in extreme times of need

Mike Miazga

February 26, 2021

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Who would ever have thought you would hear that Houston residents woke up one day in February to a temperature of 9° F?

Mike Miazga: Thinking outside the box

Mike Miazga

December 29, 2020

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A few years ago, the WIT buying group held its fall owners meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah — a neat area of the country if you have never checked it out. Part of the event involved a tour of member Standard Plumbing Supply’s impressive headquarters operation in nearby Sandy.

Mike Miazga: ASA steps up in time of industry need

Mike Miazga

November 25, 2020

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To state the obvious, 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us whether we’re talking personally dealing with the many ramifications of the pandemic or from a professional/business standpoint.

Mike Miazga: Changing the culture

Mike Miazga

November 4, 2020

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In this extremely digital age we now live in, I was recently scrolling through my LinkedIn account (if you aren’t following the ASA LinkedIn account
@American Supply Association (ASA), what are you waiting for?) and noticed a post from Max Bender, the president at Connecticut-based ASA distributor member BENDER.

Mike Miazga: Remembering Lehman Pipe's Betty Lehman

Mike Miazga

October 1, 2020

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The formation of Miami-based Lehman Pipe & Supply occurred because of an ultimatum. Current Lehman Pipe President Dennis Lehman’s father, Julian, worked for his brother-in-law in the 1940s at a plumbing supply house in the Jacksonville, Florida area.

ASA innovates with first-of-its-kind trade show at NETWORK2020 Virtual

Mike Miazga

August 19, 2020

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The one thing during the pandemic that I have missed much more than others is the face-to-face interactions that occur throughout our industry. A month prior to the widespread shutdown I was at the massive AHR Expo and KBIS-IBS trade shows and then the legacy WIT and Embassy (now combined as The Commonwealth Group) buying group meetings.