Along with Smart and Manner, the members of the 2025 board can be Board Vice President Bob Neff, Delta Faucet Firm; Board Secretary/Treasurer Lowell Lampen, Kohler; and At-Giant Administrators Troy Benavidez, LIXIL; Kate Olinger, Uponor-GF Constructing Movement Options; Michael Reffner, Moen; and Paige Riddle, LSP Merchandise.
In remarks after her election, Smart inspired all members to leverage the ability of their collective community. “The energy of our affiliation lies within the data and expertise of every one in every of you. I sit up for fostering even higher collaboration amongst our members, facilitating the change of concepts, and creating platforms the place we are able to work collectively to resolve the challenges of immediately and tomorrow,” she acknowledged.
Smart acknowledged Manner for his contributions because the 2024 PMI board president. Smart additionally introduced that the 71st Annual Assembly of the Membership can be held as a part of the PMI25 Manufacturing Success Convention from Nov. 3-6, 2025, on the Fairmont Lodge in Chicago.
In remarks summing up 2024, Manner acknowledged new PMI manufacturing members Falcon Water Applied sciences, represented by President and CEO John Confrey, and LSP Merchandise, represented by Paige Riddle, Senior Director, Product Administration. Manner additionally offered the PMI President’s Award to C.J Lagan of LIXIL.
Throughout his state of the affiliation report, PMI CEO/Govt Director Kerry Stackpole spoke of how the plumbing manufacturing business is a pressure for world change, making main contributions towards higher water effectivity and hygiene, entry to scrub water and sanitation methods, and sustainable constructing and inexperienced dwelling. These contributions finally save water, scale back vitality use and greenhouse fuel emissions, stop sickness, and save lives. Stackpole named Lars Christensen of BLANCO because the recipient of the PMI Ambassador Award, given annually to an worker of a PMI member firm.
The Nov. 4-7 PMI24 assembly earlier featured the inaugural PMI Ladies’s Breakfast, a celebration of the contributions of girls to the plumbing manufacturing business, and the presentation of the Paul Patton PMI24 Manufacturing Success Award to Jake MacDonald, Director, High quality, BLANCO North America.
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