The all-expenses-paid three-day trip involved a variety of VIP professional and networking experiences, including the opportunity to build their own iconic RIDGID custom pipe wrench, a featured spot in a RIDGID photoshoot, a premium fishing excursion on Lake Erie and more.

Expo registration is free for NKBA members through August.

Having a great team can make or break your showroom. There has been a lot of discussion and practices-sharing lately on how to hire a great team — and equally as important, how to keep that team.

As you read this human-interest story, you will quickly note the passion that the leadership of Marshall-Rodeno Associated (MRA) and the people who work there have and have had for many years.

Creating an environment for employees to prosper personally and financially enables businesses to flourish. And reducing barriers to opportunity enhances a company’s growth, as investing in your employees inevitably increases productivity and, ultimately, your bottom line. 

After taking a dip in 2018, spending in the U.S. power industry for pipe, valves and fittings is forecast to continue to rise through 2020, as project activity in various sectors increases.

When President Donald Trump recently raised eyebrows in calling his predecessor President Barack Obama’s “war on climatological impurities” a hoax, he stunned much of America’s believers, who had approved the cutback in the “belching” of carbon dioxide (CO2). This called for the limitation of coal production and cutting back U.S. manufacturing, in general, to “save the air.”

Construction jobs at the end of the first half of the year showed more strength than during the first quarter and at the beginning of the second quarter.