Eastern Industrial Supplies Inc. (Greenville, SC) opened its newest branch in Charlotte, NC.

McJunkin Corp. has completed the acquisition of the assets of Envalco Corp., a Gulf Coast-based provider of specialty valves and valve automation.

N. Merfish Supply Co. (Houston) appointed Clint Beutelschies sales manager.

Guy Cuccio has been appointed technical sales manager for The Phoenix Forge Group.

IPSCO Inc. announced a third quarter sales record of $641.9 million, up 92% over the same period last year.

Flowserve Corp. said that it has sold its Government Marine Business Unit, located in Phillipsburg, NJ, to Curtiss-Wright Corp., for approximately $28 million in cash.

Six luminaries from the PVF industry spent an hour and a half last October 13 answering questions submitted by members of the ASA Industrial Piping Division at an IPD-sponsored panel presentation in conjunction with the ASA Convention in Boston.

IPSCO has appointed Patricia Kampling as treasurer.

Chicago Tube and Iron Co. has purchased 20 acres in Romeoville, IL, where it will relocate its Chicago headquarters to a new $20 million, 400,000-square-foot facility.

Northwest Pipe Co. reported that it has received a letter of intent from Colich & Sons of Los Angeles for approximately $7 million of welded steel pipe for the Lancaster -Stage Five Recycled Water Transmission Pipeline, a project for the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles.