The 71st Annual Meeting of the Membership will be held as part of the PMI25 Manufacturing Success Conference from Nov. 3-6, 2025, at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago. 

The Detroit branch will operate as a full-service plumbing location, strengthening First Supply’s relationship with the local community and providing comprehensive support to area contractors, builders, and homeowners.

To optimize workflows, distributors should follow three key steps

Cyber security is a hot-button topic currently in the PHCP-PVF space.

The company will continue operations as Peoria Pump: A DSG Company, before transitioning the brand to DSG in the future. Mr. Cole will remain with the company during the transition period to ensure successful integration.

Over four summers, the tour has traveled 54,000 miles and visited more than 90 distributors and manufacturers. Beveridge has expanded the Season 4 docuseries to feature manufacturers, as well as distributors.

She represents the fifth generation of family leadership since the company’s inception in 1904. In this role, she will now oversee the overall vision, mission, strategy and performance of the company.

The annual sales growth for the 12 months through September 2024 is an increase of 2.3%.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) has awarded the Kohler Co. Vikrell Electric Boiler & Microgrid System project with more than $588,000 (of the total project federal cost share of up to $51.2 million) to begin Phase 1 activities to demonstrate commercial- scale decarbonization solutions to help move energy-intensive industries toward net-zero. 

Paulozza and Desai will assume the new roles on Jan. 1, 2025.