Since April 23, when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its final rule regarding noncompete clauses, I have received numerous calls and emails asking if such clauses are no longer binding and effective. 

As an industry consultant, my clients are mostly manufacturers marketing their products through electrical, plumbing, HVAC and PVF wholesale distributors. 

Economic and real estate experts have forecasted a housing recovery in late 2024 through 2025, delivering good news to plumbing manufacturers, distributors and construction-related trades that serve the housing industry.

More than 40 years after its discovery, it shocks me to say that the number of reported cases of Legionnaires’ Disease in the United States has been rising since 2003. 

In March 1864, Capt. Alexander A. Knapp was honorably discharged from the Union Army due to injuries sustained at the Battle of Chickamauga. 

Located in Houston,  the heart of the global energy sector, is the PVF Roundtable, a nonprofit networking organization that unites companies from coast to coast in the pipe, valves and fittings industry.

We are taught early on that we should have all the answers. From the first days in grade school, having all the answers to the test is — literally — the goal.