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2012

The Ongoing Shale Gas Opportunity

Distributors continue to home in on the booming domestic oil & gas market, driven by gains in oil and gas shale exploration and production. They say that despite concern over possibly stiffer regulations and environmental challenges, these markets continue to grow faster than other end-markets and hold potential for growth down the road.

The oil and gas market has always been a focus for GHX Industrial Inc., a Texas-based industrial distributor, but when a new technology to extract gas from shale in the U.S. emerged over the past decade, the company aggressively expanded its industrial hose and gasket business into new geographic markets.

Many distributors like GHX Industrial have benefited from …

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Surveys: Growth in 2011 Sparking Innovation and Collaboration in 2012

Executives of manufacturing firms expect growth to continue in 2012, and they expect that growth to enable new investments in innovation, according to two recent industry surveys.

More than half of the respondents to ThomasNet.com’s newest Industry Market Barometer survey reported company growth in 2011. And three out of four of the more than 3,700 industrial manufacturing and supply professionals surveyed expect …

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  • Commentary: Positive Outlook for 2012
  • The Ongoing Shale Gas Opportunity

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MRC Global Agrees to Buy Chaparral Supply

Chaparral Supply acquisition allows MRC to become the primary supplier of PVF and supplies to SandRidge Energy.

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Stanley Black & Decker Acquires Powers Fasteners

Powers Fasteners will join Stanley Black & Decker’s CDIY unit as a key brand.

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Building Material Distributors Acquires Master Fasteners International, Fastener Source

The two fastener companies will be merged under the name Master Fasteners and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMD.

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Parker Hannifin Aerospace President Bob Barker to Retire

Leadership changes in four other groups will also take place.

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