Riverstone Holdings LLC announced last month that a consortium led by Riverstone has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dresser Inc. Riverstone is joined by First Reserve and Lehman Brothers

The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has launched an advertising campaign jointly with the Nickel Institute to inform the public that stainless steel is one of the world’s most recycled

Central States Group (Omaha, NE) has acquired Mueller Sales Corp. of New Hope, MN, including offices in Brookfield, WI, and Cedar Rapids, IA. Mueller, an instrumentation and controls distributor founded

Mueller Water Products has acquired the assets of Fast Fabricators Inc. (Bloomfield, CT), one of the largest independently-owned fabricators of ductile iron pipe serving the water and wastewater treatment plant

Carbon steel prices in North America declined by a small amount on average in January, according to the British metals tracking firm MEPS. “Oversupply continues to be a problem in

Cameron has settled a class action lawsuit filed in 2002 related to contaminated underground water near a former manufacturing facility in Houston. Cost of the settlement is approximately $9 million.

The Committee on Pipe and Tube Imports, a nonprofit organization for U.S. pipe and tube producers, approved a resolution calling on Congress to oppose extending Trade Promotion Authority unless the

According to Industrial Info Resources’ (Sugar Land, TX) Project Spending Index, North America industrial project spending experienced 15.3% growth in 2006 when compared to 2005, increasing from 5,450 projects valued

J-M Manufacturing Co. and PW Eagle Inc., manufacturers of plastic pipe, fittings and tubing products, announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement under which J-M will acquire all

IPSCO Inc. announced the construction of an oil country tubular goods (OCTG) heat treat facility adjacent to its Blytheville, AR, pipe mill. The new facility will produce heat-treated OCTG in