IPSCO Inc. announced it is installing high-speed oil country tubular goods finishing lines at its Blytheville, AR, pipe mill.

NS Group announced that the hourly employees of the company's seamless tubular operation, located in Pennsylvania, voted to extend their 57-month labor agreement that was scheduled to expire in 2007.

Flowserve Corp. said its board of directors and C. Scott Greer have jointly agreed to accelerate the company's previously announced CEO transition.

Harvel Plastics has published a comprehensive Engineering & Installation Guide on CD-ROM providing technical data on PVC, CPVC, and specialty piping and duct systems.

CE Franklin and Smith International announced they have terminated negotiations relating to CE Franklin's previously announced proposal to acquire Wilson International, Inc.

Northwest Pipe President and CEO Brian Dunham indicated that several recent large orders are “indicative of the strong market we continue to see in the Water Transmission business.”

The Commercial Products Group of Crane Valves North America recently named the 2004 top representative award winners for its U.S.-based Stockham brand and the Canadian brands of Jenkins-NH Valves.

Hammond Valve and Milwaukee Valve have relocated into a consolidated new facility in New Berlin, WI, a suburb of Milwaukee.

Thirty-three pump manufacturing and leading supplier companies, all members of the Hydraulic Institute (HI), will lead a National Pump Systems Educational and Market Transformation Initiative called “Pump Systems Matter”™ (PSM).

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted on March 7 to conduct full five-year “sunset” reviews concerning antidumping duty orders on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Brazil, China, Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan (Inv. Nos. 731-TA-308-310, 520 and 521 (2nd Review)).