Frank Mortl III has joined the American Fire Sprinkler Association staff as its executive vice president. Mortl will be taking over the duties previously held by Janet Knowles who is retiring in September.
The National Association of Home Builders and the National Kitchen & Bath Association recently announced their respective trade shows (IBS and KBIS) will continue to co-locate together through 2020 as one of the world’s largest gatherings focused on new ideas, products and technologies to design, build and remodel homes.
In this space over the course of my first full calendar year at pme, I have banged the drum (and not slowly) in favor of enhancing water savings in fixtures and applications.
Ward Manufacturing has come a long way from the company Joseph P. Ward founded in 1924 in Blossburg, Pa., with 30 employees who produced a small line of cast-iron steam and drainage fittings, plugs and bushings.