Responding to the ASA reorganization, which provides for six regions vs. the current 13, the Chicago Metropolitan Distributors Association announced its plans to merge with the Mid-America Supply Association.
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.
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