Board members authorized at 71st Annual Assembly of the Membership
Plumbing Producers Worldwide members elected Bob Neff as president of the 2026 PMI Board of Administrators throughout PMI’s 71st Annual Assembly of the Membership. An enterprise product compliance and regulatory supervisor for Masco Company and Delta Faucet Firm, Neff succeeds Belinda Smart, a Neoperl US board of administrators member. Smart will stay on the board as instant previous president. The assembly was held throughout the PMI25 Manufacturing Success Convention in Chicago.
Along with Neff and Smart, the members of the 2026 board can be board vice chairman Lowell Lampen, Kohler; board secretary/treasurer Paige Riddle, LSP Merchandise; and at-large administrators Troy Benavidez, LIXIL; John Confrey, Falcon Water Applied sciences; Tim O’Keefe, Symmons Industries; and Kate Olinger, Uponor-GF Constructing Circulate Options.
In remarks after his election, Neff mentioned PMI stands on the coronary heart of an {industry} that fairly actually retains fashionable life flowing. “Plumbing merchandise manufacturing isn’t just about fixtures and fittings—it’s about safeguarding well being, advancing water effectivity, and constructing the programs that maintain our communities every single day,” he acknowledged.
Neff acknowledged Smart for her contributions because the 2025 PMI board president. Neff additionally introduced that the 72nd Annual Assembly of the Membership can be held as a part of the PMI26 Manufacturing Success Convention from Nov. 2-5, 2026, on the Loews Lodge in New Orleans.
In remarks summing up 2025, Smart mentioned she was particularly happy with how PMI members labored collectively and with companions to increase PMI’s affect. “Our partnerships—whether or not throughout North America or past—are proof that plumbing producers not solely construct merchandise but in addition assist form coverage, sustainability, and innovation worldwide. We’re seen as thought leaders and trusted problem-solvers, and that’s due to the work of each single certainly one of you,” she declared. Smart additionally offered the PMI President’s Award to Stephanie Salmon, PMI federal authorities affairs consultant.
Throughout his state of the affiliation report, PMI CEO/Govt Director Kerry Stackpole spoke of how PMI addressed 5 areas of significance and concern to the plumbing manufacturing {industry}: 1) advocacy and coverage management; 2) technical and industry-standards progress; 3) member engagement, variety and workforce growth; 4) public consciousness, {industry} worth and sustainability; and 5) strategic priorities for 2026. “In 2025, PMI did greater than reply to vary—we helped form it,” he emphasised. “None of those successes occur with out your management, your engagement, and your dedication to shared objective. As producers, you construct the programs, merchandise and options that matter. As members of PMI, you strengthen our collective voice and our potential to ship impression.” Stackpole named Dan Rieland of Kohler because the recipient of the PMI Ambassador Award.
On the finish of the assembly, attendees assembled World Imaginative and prescient hygiene kits, which can be distributed to kids, men and women in want. To be distributed by World Imaginative and prescient, the kits embrace important hygiene gadgets and handwritten messages of encouragement from PMI members. The Nov. 3-6 PMI25 assembly earlier featured the PMI Girls’s Breakfast, a celebration of the contributions of girls to the plumbing manufacturing {industry}, and the presentation of the Paul Patton PMI25 Manufacturing Success Award to Mike Johnson, supervisor, product compliance and regulatory affairs, Delta Faucet Firm.