Matco-Norca offers no hub couplings in both standard and heavy-duty versions for use in joining hubless cast iron pipe applications. Both Standard and Heavy-Duty Couplings provide ease of installation and permanent sealing solutions as well as proper pipe alignment. Matco-Norca 452 Series Standard No Hub Couplings are UPC and IPC approved and conform to the Read more
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Matco-Norca offers no hub couplings in both standard and heavy-duty versions for use in joining hubless cast iron pipe applications. Both Standard and Heavy-Duty Couplings provide ease of installation and permanent sealing solutions as well as proper pipe alignment.
Matco-Norca 452 Series Standard No Hub Couplings are UPC and IPC approved and conform to the latest editions of ASTM C1277/C564. They are available in sizes 1-1/2” through 10”. Sizes 1-1/2” – 4” contain two Type 310 stainless steel bands standard (with 4 bands available upon request); sizes 5”-10” come with 4 bands standard (with 6 bands available upon request) 452 Series Standard No Hub Couplings come with a neoprene gasket to provide a cushioning element in the joint to absorb shock and vibration, assuring a quiet, trouble-fee operating plumbing system.
452 Series Heavy-Duty (H) No Hub Couplings, available in sizes 2” – 10”, consist of a neoprene rubber gasket (compliant with ASTM C564 requirements) and a heavy gauge stainless steel (300 series) clamp assembly. 452H Series Couplings are available with four or six bands (depending on the coupling size) and feature specially designed bi-directional eyelets.
452H Series Couplings’ metal components meet or exceed ASTM C1540-C564 requirements for heavy-duty shielded couplings joining hubless cast iron soil pipe and fittings.
Plumbing contractors spend too much time installing outlet boxes and cost themselves tens of thousands of dollars in labor every year. Sioux Chief’s OxBox Lav box installation takes 11% of the time of traditional installations. Yes, you read that right… “A product like the OxBox and its time savings are superior. That’s why we will Read more
Plumbing contractors spend too much time installing outlet boxes and cost themselves tens of thousands of dollars in labor every year. Sioux Chief’s OxBox Lav box installation takes 11% of the time of traditional installations. Yes, you read that right…
“A product like the OxBox and its time savings are superior. That’s why we will choose that product, because in the end, time is money and we need to cut the labor on a job site.”
– Dave Muncaster, Nu-Mun Contracting
Some Key Features and Benefits of the OxBox Family:
• Save 41 minutes on installation time for each box
• All industry-leading connection options available
• Dependable and stable installations
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Sloan, a corporate partner of a green expansion to the Roadrunner Elementary School in Phoenix, has donated water- and energy-efficient plumbing products for the restrooms. Funded through partnerships with Sloan and other corporations, in-kind donations and charitable contributions, the sustainable expansion brings much-needed additional space to this Title I, low-income, K-12 public school campus. “Sloan Read more
Sloan, a corporate partner of a green expansion to the Roadrunner Elementary School in Phoenix, has donated water- and energy-efficient plumbing products for the restrooms. Funded through partnerships with Sloan and other corporations, in-kind donations and charitable contributions, the sustainable expansion brings much-needed additional space to this Title I, low-income, K-12 public school campus.
“Sloan is proud to partner with this effort to offer a state-of-the-art and sustainably designed and built school facility. The Roadrunner expansion is designed to LEED® Platinum standards, and Sloan is helping the school reduce water usage with water-efficient faucets, toilets, urinals and more,” says John Aykroyd, Vice President of Business Development for Sloan. “Through Roadrunner’s responsible use of its local natural resources, the school will also serve as an example to its students of what it means to be good environmental stewards.”
Sloan donations to the Roadrunner School in Phoenix include:
- High-Efficiency Toilets with SOLIS® solar-powered flushometers;
- sensor-activated, 0.5 gpm BASYS® faucets;
- Bio-Deck solid-surface lavatories made from ground corn cobs and other renewable materials;
- Waterfree Urinals, which offer immediate, 100% water savings; and
- Act-O-Matic® 2.0 gpm showerheads.
The Roadrunner expansion is scheduled to open for the 2014-15 school year.
Stainless Steel Closed Coupled (BLZ) centrifugal pumps from Wilo USA are base-mounted pumps featuring end suction-centerline discharge design, compact design, a foot-mounted volute and permanently lubricated ball bearings. BLZ series pumps, which are suitable and approved for pumping clean, potable water, are easy to install, operate and service. There are a total of 33 models with Read more
Stainless Steel Closed Coupled (BLZ) centrifugal pumps from Wilo USA are base-mounted pumps featuring end suction-centerline discharge design, compact design, a foot-mounted volute and permanently lubricated ball bearings. BLZ series pumps, which are suitable and approved for pumping clean, potable water, are easy to install, operate and service.
There are a total of 33 models with working pressures up to 250 PSI. NPT or ANSI Flange Connections range in size from 1¼” to 3”. As for performance of ODP motors, which are standard from ¾ to 30 HP, the maximum is up to 650 GPM and 250 ft of head.

Wilo USA LLC, 9550
Phone: 888-945-6872, Fax: 888-945-6873
Email: info@wilo-usa.com, Internet: www.wilo-usa.com
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (NASDAQ: FELE) announces Julie Scheck Freigang has joined the company as Chief Information Officer. In this role, Ms. Freigang, reporting to Gregg Sengstack, President and CEO, will manage all aspects of the company’s information technology infrastructure, processes and projects. Ms. Freigang has over 20 years of technology and business leadership experience. Most recently Read more
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (NASDAQ: FELE) announces Julie Scheck Freigang has joined the company as Chief Information Officer. In this role, Ms. Freigang, reporting to Gregg Sengstack, President and CEO, will manage all aspects of the company’s information technology
infrastructure, processes and projects.
Ms. Freigang has over 20 years of technology and business leadership experience. Most recently, Ms. Freigang was the Vice President of Information Technologies at Eaton, a company that provides energy-efficient solutions that help customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely, and sustainably. Ms. Freigang joined Eaton in 1992 as a product engineer. She left Eaton in 1996 to found a small software company, which she ran until its acquisition. She returned to Eaton in 2002, as Manager of Application Development for the Truck Group’s IT function. From 2007-2010 she held positions of increasing responsibility in the Quality and Operational Excellence functions. In 2011, she moved back to IT as Vice President – IT Operational Excellence and Site Infrastructure Support.
Ms. Freigang graduated from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.