PMI Names President, Directors and Committee Chair for 2006
For Immediate Release
October 27, 2005
Contact: Barbara C. Higgens, Executive Director (847) 884-9764
Schaumburg, IL — The PMI membership elected a new slate of officers for 2006 at the General Membership meeting held October 16 during its Fall Meeting in Washington D.C. Executive Committee: PMI President Claude Theisen, T and S Brass and Bronze Company; 1st Vice President Ken Martin, Delta Faucet; PMI 1st Vice President Rod Ward, Speakman Company; Treasurer Bill Axline, Fluidmaster; Immediate Past President, John Lauer, Sloan Valve Company. Directors at Large: Walt Strader, Price Pfister; Ray Fisher, Fisher Manufacturing; William Ball, WCM and returning directors Pete DeMarco, American Standard; Tom White, Haws Company; and Herb Barnhart, Tempress.
PMI President John Lauer, Sloan Valve Company appointed Rick Reles, Kohler as co-chair of the Member Services Committee replacing Moen’s Gary Pember. Reles will serve with co-chair Suzanne Shaw of The Chicago Faucet Company.
PMI leadership terms begin January 2006. Directors at Large and Committee Chairs serve three-year terms, while the Executive Committee members hold each post for one year before being nominated to advance to the next position.
PMI Mission Statement
- To Promote the water efficiency, health, safety and quality of plumbing products while maximizing consumer choice and value in a fair and open marketplace.
- To provide a forum for the exchange of information and industry education.
- To represent the members' interests in the regulatory/legislative processes.
- To enhance the plumbing industry's growth and expansion.
The Plumbing Manufacturers Institute is the voluntary, not-for-profit national trade association of manufacturers of plumbing products serving as the Voice of the Plumbing Industry. Member companies of PMI produce a substantial quantity of the nation’s plumbing products. For more information on PMI or its semi-annual meetings, contact the Institute at 1340 Remington Road, Suite A, Schaumburg, Ill., 60173; or via phone (847) 884-9PMI (9764), facsimile (847) 884-9775, or website www.pmihome.org.
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