The CBSA launched investigations into certain copper pipe fittings exported from Vietnam in October 2017, following a complaint filed by manufacturer Cello Products Inc.

The F.W. Webb Water Works division has grown to 15 locations across the Northeast since the distributor entered the market in 2016.

The Municipal Enforcement Sewer Use Group, made up of 25 Canadian communities, wants a national standard to ensure more honest labelling of the wipes and other products that they insist are not safe to send down the toilet. 

The acquisition, joined with Emerson’s Ridge Tool Co., creates a global $1 billion professional tools business with the broadest offering for mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors

The distributor’s ‘Family of Companies’ gets together every other year to plan, network and meet vendors.

The Wm. Powell Company and Newmans Valve LLC of Houston, have entered into a master stocking distributor agreement for Powell Pressure Seal product.

Die-Mold Tool Limited is a manufacturer of plastic PEX and other plumbing-related fittings and an integrated designer and manufacturer of plastic injection tooling.

In addition to the new manufacturing facility, Viega is in the initial planning stages of moving its Atlanta-based master distribution center that houses its metal products to a master distribution center that will break ground in McPherson in late-2018.