News
PVF Roundtable Reaches Peak of Participation Success
Tues. 3/12
The pipe-valve-fitting Roundtable, the amalgam of all participants in the $50 billion pipe-valve-fitting industry, experienced an unprecedented 458 member attendance at the first of four meetings scheduled at Houston’s J.W. Marriott
this year.
This fast-growing organization of manufacturers, distributors, product specifiers, and users, importers and exporters, and marketing groups have rallied to this organization’s membership because of its uncomparable opportunities for networking with other members of this specialized sector, unparalled by other groups within the $250 billion per annum plumbing-heating-cooling-piping.
The quarter-annual meeting also provides outstanding experts comprising the red-hot energy development markets, with emphasis on hydraulic fracturing, fossil fuel, and power generation, pipeline expansion, the future of renewables, and energy
growth’s overall impact for improvement on the nation’s financial and employment problems.
As the director emeritus of this 26-year old unconventional group, I’m privileged to kick off each meeting with a forecast as to the state of industry, after the 2-hour network is followed by a sit-down dinner, during which industry comradeship is further enhanced.
What is most remarkable and unusual about the "Roundtable’s" extensive membership is that it has no paid employees," and its direction solely emanates from a handful of volunteers that provide ongoing direction, structure, and communication. Even more remarkable is the fact that two-thirds of membership and participation comes from industry participants from outside Houston, universally acknowledged as the world’s energy capital.
With energy’s red-hot growth and future importance, plus the concern of politicians’ strangulating regulations and restrictions, the chance to interface with hundreds of those, including competitors, who face similar plights and hopes is uncomparable. It has become thoroughly insightful, according to scores of members with whom I have continually spoken.
When asked about the group’s recent expansion, I liken the PVF Roundtable as comparable to the political "Tea Party Movement," which sprang up as a unified surge to cope with the problems and opportunities not properly addressed by trade groups and organizations more interested in providing conventional programming that is not as inspirational.
Good works, such as an annual golf outing to provide scholarships to those focusing on industrial distribution and related educational programming, have received overwhelming support. With the enthusiasm generated by the "Roundtable’s" spectaculars, the future for the pipe-valve-fitting Roundtable not only looks bright, but may be setting an example for other specialized industry sectors to follow its course.
Tues. 3/12
The pipe-valve-fitting Roundtable, the amalgam of all participants in the $50 billion pipe-valve-fitting industry, experienced an unprecedented 458 member attendance at the first of four meetings scheduled at Houston’s J.W. Marriott
this year.
This fast-growing organization of manufacturers, distributors, product specifiers, and users, importers and exporters, and marketing groups have rallied to this organization’s membership because of its uncomparable opportunities for networking with other members of this specialized sector, unparalled by other groups within the $250 billion per annum plumbing-heating-cooling-piping.
The quarter-annual meeting also provides outstanding experts comprising the red-hot energy development markets, with emphasis on hydraulic fracturing, fossil fuel, and power generation, pipeline expansion, the future of renewables, and energy
growth’s overall impact for improvement on the nation’s financial and employment problems.
As the director emeritus of this 26-year old unconventional group, I’m privileged to kick off each meeting with a forecast as to the state of industry, after the 2-hour network is followed by a sit-down dinner, during which industry comradeship is further enhanced.
What is most remarkable and unusual about the "Roundtable’s" extensive membership is that it has no paid employees," and its direction solely emanates from a handful of volunteers that provide ongoing direction, structure, and communication. Even more remarkable is the fact that two-thirds of membership and participation comes from industry participants from outside Houston, universally acknowledged as the world’s energy capital.
With energy’s red-hot growth and future importance, plus the concern of politicians’ strangulating regulations and restrictions, the chance to interface with hundreds of those, including competitors, who face similar plights and hopes is uncomparable. It has become thoroughly insightful, according to scores of members with whom I have continually spoken.
When asked about the group’s recent expansion, I liken the PVF Roundtable as comparable to the political "Tea Party Movement," which sprang up as a unified surge to cope with the problems and opportunities not properly addressed by trade groups and organizations more interested in providing conventional programming that is not as inspirational.
Good works, such as an annual golf outing to provide scholarships to those focusing on industrial distribution and related educational programming, have received overwhelming support. With the enthusiasm generated by the "Roundtable’s" spectaculars, the future for the pipe-valve-fitting Roundtable not only looks bright, but may be setting an example for other specialized industry sectors to follow its course.
SAVE THE DATE!
2013 Don Caffee Memorial Golf Tournament
Date: May 20, 2013
Golf Course: WildCat Golf Club
Tee Off: Shotgun start at 1:00pm.
Dinner and awards following the golf. Be watching for the golf invitation brochure complete with details and information to sign up your team!
As your tournament Chairman I invite you and your teams to join us for all the festivities. Should you need any help contact one of your board members or me. We look forward to seeing you at the tournament that benefits young people and our Industry.
Thank you,
Kelly Kelsheimer
Tournament Chairman
kkelsheimer@newayvalve.com
2013 Don Caffee Memorial Golf Tournament
Date: May 20, 2013
Golf Course: WildCat Golf Club
Tee Off: Shotgun start at 1:00pm.
Dinner and awards following the golf. Be watching for the golf invitation brochure complete with details and information to sign up your team!
As your tournament Chairman I invite you and your teams to join us for all the festivities. Should you need any help contact one of your board members or me. We look forward to seeing you at the tournament that benefits young people and our Industry.
Thank you,
Kelly Kelsheimer
Tournament Chairman
kkelsheimer@newayvalve.com
PVF Icon Joins American Supply Association as Industry Analyst
Itasca, IL - December 10, 2012 - The American Supply Association announced today that PVF industry icon Morris Beschloss will join the association as its industry analyst as part of a broader agreement that will include his expertise through features in the association’s media outlets. In this new capacity, Mr. Beschloss will provide analysis to association senior staff and volunteer leaders of their Industrial Piping Division on PVF trends in key segments such as energy, chemical and industrial markets. His vast array of knowledge in these areas will assist the association in the continued development of its ongoing strategic planning to best position ASA members for long-term success.
As a major part of this agreement, Mr. Beschloss will become a principal author to the association’s PVF Outlook publication and will also be featured monthly in ASA’s weekly e-newsletter, ASA Insights. In addition, Beschloss will be featured full-time in BNP Media’s Supply House Times magazine, the official publication of ASA. He will also write for other BNP publications such as Plumbing & Mechanical, and a new digital version of his acclaimed Beschloss Perspective will be featured in a dedicated web page created by BNP and launched early next year.
“We are excited about Morrie’s agreeing to join us and our association’s official publication. His vast knowledge and insight of the forces that impact the PVF markets will greatly assist our members to navigate the future,” said ASA Executive Vice President Michael Adelizzi. He added, “We believe that this new direction will vastly expand the availability of Morrie’s expertise not only throughout industry circles, but also to the 20,000 industry customers who now receive our quarterly PVF Outlook publication.”
For more information, please contact Michael Adelizzi, ASA Executive Vice President, at (630) 467-0000, x 201 or at madelizzi@asa.net.
As a major part of this agreement, Mr. Beschloss will become a principal author to the association’s PVF Outlook publication and will also be featured monthly in ASA’s weekly e-newsletter, ASA Insights. In addition, Beschloss will be featured full-time in BNP Media’s Supply House Times magazine, the official publication of ASA. He will also write for other BNP publications such as Plumbing & Mechanical, and a new digital version of his acclaimed Beschloss Perspective will be featured in a dedicated web page created by BNP and launched early next year.
“We are excited about Morrie’s agreeing to join us and our association’s official publication. His vast knowledge and insight of the forces that impact the PVF markets will greatly assist our members to navigate the future,” said ASA Executive Vice President Michael Adelizzi. He added, “We believe that this new direction will vastly expand the availability of Morrie’s expertise not only throughout industry circles, but also to the 20,000 industry customers who now receive our quarterly PVF Outlook publication.”
For more information, please contact Michael Adelizzi, ASA Executive Vice President, at (630) 467-0000, x 201 or at madelizzi@asa.net.
Donald R. McNeeley, Ph.D.: Featured Speaker at the PVF Roundtable on February 19, 2013
Donald McNeeley is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Tube and Iron Company, a steel distribution and fabrication company founded in 1914, headquartered in Chicago with ten subsidiaries. Founded upon sound free-market principles, they have recently completed their 97th year of consecutive profitability, a record unmatched in the United States Steel Industry. In 2011, Dr. McNeeley was the architect of a merger of his company with Olympic Steel, Inc. The combined forces of $1.5 billion in sales and 30 locations positions them as one of the top 10 in the nation.
Dr. McNeeley is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University where he teaches in the graduate program at the prestigious McCormick School of Engineering.
Dr. McNeeley is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. He also attended University of Wisconsin, Benedictine University, and George William College. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics, an MBA, an MS in Management and Organizational Behavior as well as a BA in Business.
Directorships include: Olympic Steel in Cleveland, Ohio; Saulsbury Industries in Odessa, Texas; Vail Rubber Company in St. Joseph, Michigan. He is Management Trustee of the Pipefitters’ Union local 529. He is a former Director of the Committee for Monetary Research in Greenwich, Connecticut. He has been featured in many industry and business publications, including the
Wall Street Journal. He was a finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year as well as the ASA Executive of the Year, Metal Center News’ Man of the Year, and has been featured as an industry thought leader in Forward Magazine.
As testament to his competitive nature, Don has completed 82 marathons, including a five time finish of the renowned Boston Marathon, 7 Olympic distance triathlons, and in a test of endurance, he once completed 6 marathons in 6 weeks.
In speaking with Don, he is most proud of hailing from a working class family of modest means with seven siblings. Part of his childhood was featured in a publication entitled Limbo, White Collar Dreams with Blue Collar Roots. It is said that he has the unique ability to make political and economic complexities easily understood.
Please join me in welcoming Professor McNeeley.
Dr. McNeeley is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University where he teaches in the graduate program at the prestigious McCormick School of Engineering.
Dr. McNeeley is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. He also attended University of Wisconsin, Benedictine University, and George William College. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics, an MBA, an MS in Management and Organizational Behavior as well as a BA in Business.
Directorships include: Olympic Steel in Cleveland, Ohio; Saulsbury Industries in Odessa, Texas; Vail Rubber Company in St. Joseph, Michigan. He is Management Trustee of the Pipefitters’ Union local 529. He is a former Director of the Committee for Monetary Research in Greenwich, Connecticut. He has been featured in many industry and business publications, including the
Wall Street Journal. He was a finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year as well as the ASA Executive of the Year, Metal Center News’ Man of the Year, and has been featured as an industry thought leader in Forward Magazine.
As testament to his competitive nature, Don has completed 82 marathons, including a five time finish of the renowned Boston Marathon, 7 Olympic distance triathlons, and in a test of endurance, he once completed 6 marathons in 6 weeks.
In speaking with Don, he is most proud of hailing from a working class family of modest means with seven siblings. Part of his childhood was featured in a publication entitled Limbo, White Collar Dreams with Blue Collar Roots. It is said that he has the unique ability to make political and economic complexities easily understood.
Please join me in welcoming Professor McNeeley.
Hofmeister Underscores Return to Intelligent Leadership Thursday 11/15
In a rather lengthy, but thought-provoking return to leadership, after a nearly "12-year lapse" spanning the Bush and Obama Administrations, founder of "Citizens for Affordable Energy" and former CEO/Chairman John Hofmeister addressed a packed house of members of the energy-oriented PVF Roundtable. This presentation represented the last of the quarter annual 2012 meetings in late October, a membership heavily devoted to all aspects of energy development.
Although Hofmeister’s speech focus was primarily devoted to a reiteration of leadership at all levels, which is built around seven key points of a book on the way to publication, the former Shell Oil chairman rebuked both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama for their unrestrained desertion of fiscal responsibility.
Emphasizing his political standing as a registered Democrat, Hofmeister nevertheless severely criticized growth of the national debt under the Obama Administration to an unsustainable level. However, he also blamed George W. Bush for waging two unpaid-for post-911 wars, while also substantially reducing taxes, and adding drug benefits to Medicare, with no offsetting tax input.
However, Hofmeister reserved his severest criticism for President Obama, and his irresponsible expenditures of borrowed money to impose a risky healthcare plan on the American people. This was done, Hofmeister said while forsaking a deteriorating economy and turning a blind eye toward growing unemployment.
While applauding the energy sector’s aggressive "fracking" technology, he warned of the equally intensive push-back by the Environmental Protection Agency and its extremist anti-fossil fuel head, Lisa Jackson.
In answer to my question to Hofmeister regarding the President’s indiscriminate use of "executive orders," the totality of which already exceed those issued by the 43 Presidents that had preceded him, Hofmeister felt that these could be revoked by a succeeding President.
When I followed up with "What if Obama is re-elected," Hofmeister stated his belief that the American people would not tolerate a dictatorship. I’m afraid I’ve heard that song before, during my early European years.
For future easy access to my blogs, please use the link below, and bookmark it to your desktop. The old link you may be using is still available. However, an alternate link is: http://mydesert.com/beschloss
In a rather lengthy, but thought-provoking return to leadership, after a nearly "12-year lapse" spanning the Bush and Obama Administrations, founder of "Citizens for Affordable Energy" and former CEO/Chairman John Hofmeister addressed a packed house of members of the energy-oriented PVF Roundtable. This presentation represented the last of the quarter annual 2012 meetings in late October, a membership heavily devoted to all aspects of energy development.
Although Hofmeister’s speech focus was primarily devoted to a reiteration of leadership at all levels, which is built around seven key points of a book on the way to publication, the former Shell Oil chairman rebuked both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama for their unrestrained desertion of fiscal responsibility.
Emphasizing his political standing as a registered Democrat, Hofmeister nevertheless severely criticized growth of the national debt under the Obama Administration to an unsustainable level. However, he also blamed George W. Bush for waging two unpaid-for post-911 wars, while also substantially reducing taxes, and adding drug benefits to Medicare, with no offsetting tax input.
However, Hofmeister reserved his severest criticism for President Obama, and his irresponsible expenditures of borrowed money to impose a risky healthcare plan on the American people. This was done, Hofmeister said while forsaking a deteriorating economy and turning a blind eye toward growing unemployment.
While applauding the energy sector’s aggressive "fracking" technology, he warned of the equally intensive push-back by the Environmental Protection Agency and its extremist anti-fossil fuel head, Lisa Jackson.
In answer to my question to Hofmeister regarding the President’s indiscriminate use of "executive orders," the totality of which already exceed those issued by the 43 Presidents that had preceded him, Hofmeister felt that these could be revoked by a succeeding President.
When I followed up with "What if Obama is re-elected," Hofmeister stated his belief that the American people would not tolerate a dictatorship. I’m afraid I’ve heard that song before, during my early European years.
For future easy access to my blogs, please use the link below, and bookmark it to your desktop. The old link you may be using is still available. However, an alternate link is: http://mydesert.com/beschloss
