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Economic growth will strengthen in 2003, says the Institute for Supply Management's 64th Semiannual Economic Forecast.

Tyler Pipe and various sister companies owned by Birmingham, Ala.-based McWane, Inc. were the subjects of an impassioned investigative report in the Jan. 8, 2003 New York Times and a Jan. 9 broadcast of PBS TV's "Frontline," in a program titled "A Dangerous Place to Work."

The U.S. International Trade Commission concluded in its preliminary investigation that there is enough evidence of dumping of malleable iron pipe fittings by the People's Republic of China to commence with the final phase of an investigation aimed at establishing material injury to U.S. producers and determining penalties.

Boltex Manufacturing of Houston has completed installation of a new 6,500-ton mechanical press forging line.

Mueller Industries announced that it intends to discontinue its manufacturing operations in France.

Mechanical, Inc., a Freeport, Ill.-based mechanical contractor and a division of The Helm Group, has acquired Borg Mechanical Contractors of Hillside, Ill.

The Logo Task Group of Houston's PVF Roundtable has gotten underway with its attempt to identify manufacturer markings throughout the PVF industry.

Flowserve Corp. has donated this $85,000 rotary, two-screw pump to Texas A & M University.

ITT Industries has purchased the Biopharm Manufacturing Div. of Martin Petersen Co., a leading manufacturer of process systems for the biopharmaceutical industry.

KWD-globalpipe reports that over the next 25 years the United Arab Emirates will spend over $7 billion to develop its water resources.