August 9, 2006

BlueLinx Holdings Inc., Atlanta, GA, a distributor of building products in North America, has acquired Austin Hardwoods, a privately held hardwood lumber distributor in Austin, TX. The acquisition expands BlueLinx’s presence in the Southwest and is expected to enhance the company’s ability to service industrial customers in certain local markets.Operating since 1972, Austin Hardwoods distributes […]

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH, has agreed to acquire Dover Resources’ Ronningen-Petter industrial fine filtration business. Dover Resources is a subsidiary of Dover Corporation. Dover Resource’s Ronningen-Petter fine filtration business had 2005 sales of $30 million. It provides filters and components to customers in end markets that include the oil and gas, pulp

Rexnord Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, a manufacturer of highly engineered precision motion technology products, focused on power transmission products, reported sales grew 20.2%, excluding the acquisition of Falk, in first quarter fiscal 2007 over the prior-year quarter to $288.4 million. Approximately $25.2 million of this increase was due to the timing of the Falk acquisition in

>SalesThe U.S. Census Bureau announced that June 2006 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $331.1 billion, up 1.4 percent (+/-0.5%) from the revised May level and were up 13.5 percent (+/-1.0%) from the June 2005 level. The