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2011Forecast—PVF


2011 looking like a growth year for PVF sector


(Continued from page 22.) and downstream elements of the


fossil fuels industry. The current commercial lull has created new hori- zons for these professionals. • Exports. The export sector,


which has been a major success story in America’s otherwise drooping post-recession recovery, requires a


automating...to obviate the need for additional employment in an uncertain...environment. This should provide sizable stimulus for PVF manufacturers.


prove to be well above average, especially in the manufacturing sector. Most companies are upgrading, mechanizing and


Repair and maintenance will


multitude of manufactured supplies, among which are a vast variety of pipe, valves and fittings. This is being stimulated by the need of Southeast Asia, Brazil, Russia and Eastern Europe, which depend on the American brand name for quality and service. This has become espe- cially effective in the greater de- mands for domestic product, in light of the frequency of failures among imported products, which have had their share of negative publicity, due to oil spills, fires and other product- related calamities. All in all, these factors should add


up to a reasonably good year for the PVF sector. If the Administration saw fit to launch a nationwide, shovel- ready infrastructural re-development, it could turn out to be a great year. A beneficial factor for domestic


•THE WHOLESALER® — JANUARY 2011


PVF manufacturers is the emergence of increased demand for the indus- try’s leading brandnames; and the ready access of pipe, valves and fit- tings offered by such manufacturers. Transparency of points of origin and bills of material are also increasingly being requested. With inventories in the distribution system currently limited to ‘just in


time’ quantities, availability has also become an increasingly decisive fac- tor for order placement. This trend is expected to accelerate in 2011 and fu- ture years.


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Morris R. Beschloss, a 54-year vet- eran of the pipe, valve and fitting in- dustry, is PVF and economic analyst emeritus for TheWholesaleR.


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