With the launch of Amazon Supply and Google Shopping for Suppliers, having a functional, viable and compelling e-commerce platform is more important now than ever before for PHCP and PVF wholesalers.

Most energy analysts have been surprised by the recent price climb of West Texas Intermediate crude oil to more than $100 per barrel. Since U.S. demand, which reflects the domestically extracted “light crude,” traditionally generates its lowest prices in the winter months, historically annual prices dropped accordingly in 2013, during which prices averaged from the low to middle $90s.

General Pipe Cleaners’ new Gen-Eye Micro-Scope compact handheld inspection tool offers the versatility to inspect small drain lines, toilet traps or hard-to-reach places such as ductwork, furnaces and crawlspaces.

MRC Global recently announced fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results. The company’s sales increased 3% from $1.31 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012 to $1.34 billion in the same quarter of 2013.

In my report on the recent winter PVF Roundtable meeting in Houston, Supply House Times columnist and ASA Industry Analyst Morrie Beschloss used the signature sign-on line from World War II-era radio commentator Gabriel Heatter to describe the outlook for the industrial PVF industry.

These products are ideal for restraining hubless cast-iron soil pipe joints against separation during high thrust conditions, as required by no-hub pipe manufacturers and CISPI standards.

The popular industrial pipe, valves and fittings quarterly gathering established yet another attendance record in its debut in late February at the Westin Galleria in Houston.

Fergusonrecently announced it has expanded its partnership with Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg in Virginia. 

Wheatland CW pipe will now be manufactured and sold under the SureThread brand name. 

Polypropylene pipe is officially included in the 2014 California Plumbing Code as part of the new California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) codes that took effect January 1, 2014.