Merit Brass Co. won an "e-Volution in Manufacturing" award for its EDI initiatives.

PW Eagle Inc. has split its operations into two core business units.

Puget Sound Pipe & Supply has been named by Bechtel National as supplier to the $5.6 billion Hanford Waste Treatment Plant being built near Richland, Wash.

It's not just ordinary carbon steel anymore for refineries and many other PVF users in process industries that generate hydrogen fluoride (HF), a poisonous gas that when dissolved in water produces hydrofluoric acid.

Red-White Valve Corp. was acquired by the Italian valve manufacturer VIR.

John Stupp Jr., executive vice president and COO of Baton Rouge, La.-based Stupp Bros. and CEO of Stupp Corp., will assume the additional duty of president of Stupp Corp.

Baton Rouge, La.-based Edgen Corp. has integrated the company's four carbon pipe and piping components divisions.

The U.S. International Trade Commission determined that the U.S. industry is threatened with material injury by imports of non-malleable cast iron pipe fittings from China sold in the United States at less than fair value.

Investigators from the U.S. Dept. of Justice, along with counterparts from Canada, Japan and the European Union made coordinated raids in mid-February on 14 chemical companies around the world that produce stabilisers and other components used to make PVC.

YCV (Houston) has changed its name to Yamatake America, to better identify with its parent company.