VMA members on Valve World event: a good show, but…
This year’s Valve World Expo, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, is behind us and by most accounts, it was a pretty good show.
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Market Outlook 2011: Clear Skies? Wait Until 2012
Many of the attendees of this year’s Market Outlook, held Aug. 12-13 in San Francisco, came hoping (at last) to hear some good news.
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The International Market: Trade and Its Effects on U.S. Recovery
Although the nation began pulling out of the recession in about the middle of 2009, by the time of VMA’s Market Outlook Workshop in mid-August, the growth that started in 2009 had slowed down, a development that was more noticeable here in the U.S. than overseas, according to Gary Schlossberg (pictured), senior economist for Wells Capital Management.
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Forecast for the Pulp & Paper Industry: It’s a Mixed Bag
The U.S. pulp industry is now relatively consolidated with the top five companies in the U.S. accounting for 60% of revenue share in 2009, Michael Armstrong, vice president of advisory services, PricewaterhouseCoopers said when speaking to a group of valve manufacturers at VMA’s Market Outlook Workshop, held last month in San Francisco.
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A Wall Street Perspective: Indicators ‘Paint a Mixed Picture'
Wall Street expert Michael Halloran, vice president for Robert W.
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More Than 200 Participate in Valve Education Event
VMA staff and volunteers organizing the first Valve Basics Seminar & Exhibition suspected attendance would be high, but the strong showing exceeded even the most optimistic expectations.
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2010 Market Outlook: Recovery to be Slow, But Steady
While speakers at this year’s VMA Market Outlook Workshop disagreed on exactly when recovery will get here, they all agreed we’re on our way.
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Construction: Residential Begins to Stabilize; Commercial to Falter
Leading up to publication of Valve Magazine’s 2010 Market Outlook cover story (mid-October), we take a look at a few of the industries that we did not have room to address in the print edition, but are available for our readers here on ValveMagazine.com.
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At VMA’s Technical Seminar, Dow's Bill Patrick Addresses Standards, Global Quality
Bill Patrick, global piping discipline technology leader for The Dow Chemical Company, addressed a group of nearly 100 valve manufacturers and end-users at VMA’s Technical Seminar in Charleston, SC, held March 5-6.
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The Chinese Puzzle
Western (particularly American) companies and workers have been badly hurt over the years by the steady move of manufacturing to low-wage countries, particularly China, where the Pearl River Delta in southern Guangdong province became known as the world’s factory floor.
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Good Riddance to 2008—and a Look Ahead
I think there’s a pretty good consensus that 2009 has to be better than 2008.
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Here’s to Fewer Worries in the Months Ahead
If you have held on to your investments over the past couple of years, either through sang froid, inertia or the paralysis of fear, there may be a little cheer this holiday season.
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Mixed Signals for Valve Industry
With all the gloom flying around it can be difficult to find anything encouraging to report, but it's there if you look for it.
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The ’08 Election Has Come and Gone…Where Do We Stand?
Barack Obama’s win over John McCain on Nov. 4 was the most lopsided victory for a presidential candidate since George H.W.
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Zogby Talks Politics with VMA
John Zogby, one of America’s most respected and accomplished pollsters, spoke to members of the Valve Manufacturers Association at its 70th Annual Meeting in Tucson, AZ.
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Industry, Government Strike Back at Metal Thieves
The theft of valves for their scrap metal value that began several years ago continues, although law enforcement, legislatures and industry associations are increasingly recognizing the seriousness of the problem.
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2009 Market Outlook: Riding Out The Storm
The atmosphere at VMA's Annual Market Outlook Workshop, held Aug. 14-15 in Boston, was more somber than in years' past as attendees-primarily manufacturers of valves, actuators, controls and pumps-listened to speaker after speaker predict continued, even worsening, troubles in the economy, in the United States and around the world.
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Feds Project Long-Term Energy Outlook
In its International Energy Outlook 2008 released in July, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects two very different futures for global energy markets.
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No Sign of a Rollback in Global Steel Prices
Don’t look for steel prices to drop anytime soon.
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