Hughes Supply has appointed former senior vice president of sales and marketing Tom Starnes to lead its $500 million MRO Division.

Two privately-held companies, Dallas-based D-FW Supply Co. and San Antonio's PFV Supply Co., have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction effective Jan. 1, 2004.

ISMA and IDA to merge.

Red-White Valve Corp. has named Peter O'Donnell as eastern regional sales manager.

Flowserve's Power Generation Group has received an “Outstanding Supplier Award” from Constellation Energy for exceptional work in the rebuilding of the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station's (Scriba, NY) main steam isolation valve during a refueling outage in November 2002.

YORK International has selected supplyFORCE as its national MRO supplier for PVF and various other electrical and industrial supplies.

Smithfield Foods has selected supplyFORCE as its national MRO supplier for PVF.

Eastern Industrial Supplies has opened a distribution center in Spartanburg, SC.

Georg Fischer Corp.'s Piping Systems Corporate Group in Europe has announced the closing of its malleable cast iron fittings plant in Bedford, UK.

The PVF Roundtable is an organization of firms involved in the Pipe, Valves and Fittings industry.