In the decades of U.S. presidencies preceding the current White House occupant, a preoccupation with long-term climate change and cheap imports to win over the U.S. population’s multi-millions have increasingly shrunk America’s once globally dominant manufacturing sector.

Fast forward to 2019 — skipping past the Pony Express, the telegraph, the land-line telephone and the teletype — and most of us have the fortune or misfortune of being able to receive messages from anywhere on earth in a matter of seconds. 

In February, it was announced that United Pipe & Steel (UPS) and Merifish Pipe & Supply (MPS) are combining under Merfish Pipe Holdings (MPH), an entity with majority ownership by One Equity Partners (OEP). 

Upgrades to Lymansville Mill include Water and Gas Safety (WAGS) valves to shut off the water supply if tanks fail to prevent leaking and flooding.

Discouragingly, recent studies show that only 64 percent of such resolutions last longer than the first month and only 46 percent last longer than six months.

Milford Supply is as true to the mission today as it was when it started.

There’s a lot of talk these days about the Amazon effect, or the disinflationary force of online retailing that drives down the price of goods.

We first visited the Plumbing Museum at some point in the 1990s when it was located at its original site in Worcester, Massachusetts. 

The partnership provides a framework to assess the environmental and energy efficiency of goods movement supply chains.

The global supplier of industrial rubber products is celebrating the contributions of women workers at a time when many manufacturers are struggling to find workforce talent.