DeZurik acquired APCO Willamette, a producer of check valves, air valves and AWWA ball valves.

HD Supply Waterworks entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Rexford-Albany Municipal Supply Co. (RAMSCO).

Collins Pipe & Supply (East Windsor, CT) reports that it has doubled in size since being acquired by Brian Tuohey in 1998.

Industrial Valco hired Robert Vick as vice president business development. 

Marmon/Keystone appointed Damon Harris branch manager of its Salt Lake City location, replacing the retiring Glen Henderson. Most recently he was the Salt Lake City operations manager.

Raritan Pipe & Supply Co. was a start/finish sponsor for the March for Babies Walk held May 1 at the Rutgers Athletic Center (Middlesex County, NJ). 

Milliken Valve Co. employees and management in Bethlehem, PA, were recognized by OSHA for excellence in the company’s employee safety and health program.

Omega Flex Inc. launched www.csstfacts.org, a website for the plumbing, gas and HVAC industries about the benefits of corrugated stainless steel tubing.

The Allied Group acquires Specialty Piping Products and becomes  Allied Chrome.

The biggest buzz at the last PVF Roundtable meeting was about the upcoming Valve World Expo Americas 2011.