Affiliated Distributors recognized Red Man Pipe & Supply (Tulsa, Okla.) and Central States Industrial Supply (Omaha, Neb.) as the group's Highest Overall Growth PVF distributors in 2003.

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Service Corp. has acquired Imes Engineering, a Baton Rouge, La.-based engineering company.

Victaulic Co. has reformatted its Field Assembly and Installation Instruction Pocket Handbook into three distinct manuals: I-100 (IPS and metric-size carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum and PVC pipe products); I-300 (AWA-size products for ductile iron pipe); and I-600 (copper connection products).

IPSCO Inc. has named Vicki Avril as senior vice president and CFO.

Flowserve Corp. named Wyatt International, headquartered in Birmingham, England, as its agency of record to lead the company's brand re-launch.

The president and CEO of IPSCO Inc. says his company and other steel makers in North America are witnessing structural changes to the steel industry that can be likened to a revolution.

Matthew Hurley has joined Anvil International as vice president of sales & marketing.

Economic growth in the United States will strengthen in 2004, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in their 67th Semiannual Economic Forecast issued in April.

U.S. valve manufacturers expect a 0.6% increase in industrial valve shipments during 2004 over last year.

WARREN ALLOY is now stocking top-shelf, approved, chrome moly WP 11, WP 5 and WP 9 butt weld fittings, and F 11, F 5 and F 9 flanges.