T&S Brass and Bronze Works hired Michael Potvin as product compliance engineer.

Jimmy Hunthas joined Watts Water Technologiesas business-development manager.

Innovation Corner — July 2016

Industry Partnerships: paying your dues is the easy part

In May, the ASA Women in Industry Division sponsored a social media webinar presented by Ashley Petersen, the new media specialist for NIBCO.

The division, which represents wholesale distributors, manufacturers and manufacturers reps focusing on plumbing products, is working to present consistent and meaningful communications.

My good friend Dirk Beveridge, a leading voice of change and innovation throughout distribution, tells us that “Without vision, there is no innovation.”

According to ASA’s 2014 Employee Compensation Report, ASA distributor members paid their typical inside salesperson a base salary of $42,976 — with bonus that figure increased to about $50,000..

BNP Media Plumbing Group Columnist Julius Ballanco, P.E., and president of JB Engineering and Code Consulting returns to the Coffee with Caleffi webinar series on July 28.

Those of us in the PHCP/PVF industry can proudly say we continue to be part of a relationship-based industry.