The agreement to allow limited use of CPVC plastic pipe in residential applications throughout California was approved Nov. 14 by the California Building Standards Commission.
In response to disappointing results for its plumbing group in the third quarter, Hughes Supply is accelerating efficiency measures and evaluating the idea of branch consolidation within the group.
Messe Frankfurt, the organizer of the biennial ISH show, has formed a partnership with ASA, CIPH and PHCC-NA to introduce ISH North America in the fall of 2002.
The American Supply Association approved the application of the Central Wholesalers Association and the Michigan Association of Distributors to become ASA Region 4.
The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Information Bureau, founded in 1919 to be the consumer public relations arm of the industry, closed its doors Dec. 31, 2000.
Maurice "Moe" Desmarais, executive director of the American Supply Association and most recently general manager of the ASA Center for Advancing Technology, has resigned to join Smith, Bucklin & Associates, an association management firm also based in Chicago.