∎ Aquatherm North America hired Larry Hope as an area manager covering Alberta Canada, for the polypropylene piping company. Hope worked in the plumbing and heating wholesale industry for almost 20 years at the Red Deer, Alberta, branches of Crane Supply and the Westlund division of EMCO Corp.
∎ Watts appointed Dave Stitcher to the newly created position of business development manager — drains, West. Based in Arizona, Stitcher is responsible for the sale of Watts, Orion and BLUCHER brand drains in the Western United States.