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President George W. Bush overruled a majority of International Trade Commissioners when he refused Dec. 30 to act upon a petition by seven U.S. steel pipe makers to place limits on Chinese-made steel pipe imports flooding the U.S. market.

The Honorable Bill White, Mayor of the City of Houston, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the PVF Roundtable.

IPSCO's Alabama Steelworks has been named one of the winners of the 2005 Alabama Quality Awards.

Ferguson Enterprises announced that on November 30, 2005, members of John H. Frischkorn, Jr., Inc.'s employee stock ownership plan voted to approve the merger of Frischkorn with Ferguson.

Leonard (“Frenchy”) R. Reel Jr., chairman and CEO of Reel Pipe & Valve of Indianapolis, IN, passed away at age 83.

Tyco Fire & Building Products has opened a Grinnell Mechanical Grooved Products warehouse in Brea, CA.

The PVF Division of supplyFORCE gave its 2005 “Excellence in Sales Leadership” award to Bakersfield Pipe & Supply (Bakersfield, CA).

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry has formed a new Technical Services Department to provide education and technical support to engineers and contractors on the application and installation of all Charlotte Pipe products.

Seven U.S. standard steel pipe producers urged President George Bush to restrict surging imports of competing products from China through a special mechanism that he has declined to use before.

After a three-year downturn in grassroot plant construction activity in the U.S., manufacturers made a comeback in 2005, as the industry's grassroot plant numbers are once again in line with those posted at the beginning of the new millennium.