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Crane Co. announced that it has purchased all of the capital stock of Friedrich Krombach GmbH & Co.

U. S. Steel Tubular Products announced that it will exit the drawn-over-mandrel (DOM) tubular products business and close the DOM lines at its Texas Operations Division in Lone Star, TX.

American Piping Products (APP) said it has received a growth equity investment from Chicago-based The Edgewater Funds in partnership with APP’s senior management team.

Emerson announced that it has acquired Bay-Tec Engineering of Napa, CA.

SPX Corp. announced the sale of its GSE Scales product line, in the test and measurement segment, to Illinois Tool Works.

Eastway Supplies (Columbus, OH) named Scott Plinke director of its PVF division.

Northwest Pipe Co. said that it has received a Letter of Intent from Mexico’s Cableados Industriales SA de CV for a project in Baja, CA.

Global stainless steel production will decline by almost 1 million tons in 2009, or about 3%, predicts British metals tracking firm MEPS.

Earl W. Monnig, 91, an active member of the PVF industry for 30 years, died at his home in Pittsburgh Dec. 23.

New England distribution giant F. W. Webb Co. has acquired O’Connor & Senecal of Sutton, MA, a manufacturers representative of major instrumentation product lines.