The Central Wholesalers Association and Michigan Association of Distributors officially merged Sept. 1, after a formal vote was taken at a joint annual meeting in June.
Speakers from the Copper Development Association cited numerous reasons to install all-copper fire sprinkler systems at a seminar held at the Restoration & Renovation Conference in Baltimore last spring.
Hughes Supply (Orlando, Fla.) said it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Marden Susco, LLC, a southern California supplier of underground piping products for use in municipal water, sewer and storm drain systems.
Underwriters Laboratories in Santa Clara, Calif., oversees a test system that meets industry performance standards for testing backflow protection devices to ANSI/ASME A112.18.3.
Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors-National Association said that Lake Coulson, its vice president of government relations, has been named president of the National Alliance for Fair Competition.
Hughes Supply (Orlando, Fla.) opened a new location at 8145 W. Harrison St. in Tolleson, Ariz., that will supply water, sewer, storm drain and irrigation products to contractors and municipalities in the local area for use in infrastructure, new construction, maintenance and repair projects.