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Articles by Kerry Stackpole
Filter First: A Cost-Effective Path to Safe Drinking Water in Schools
Across the country, lawmakers are searching for effective ways to protect children from lead in drinking water. For many schools — particularly those built decades ago — the challenge is significant. Aging water infrastructure can contribute to lead contamination, but replacing entire systems is costly. Instead, some states have discovered a faster, more practical answer.
Protecting Proven Water-Efficiency Progress, Public Health and More
The plumbing manufacturing industry faces considerable challenges. What’s at stake? Decades of proven water-efficiency standards that work. Enough plumbers to install products in a timely fashion. Confidence that plumbing product purchases meet health and safety standards rather than being counterfeit or contraband. Every one of those critical issues is tied to policy and decided by people who need to hear from our industry.
PMI Helps Curb Online Sales of Counterfeit Plumbing Products
Combating the online sale of contraband products continues to be a challenge for plumbing manufacturers and many other businesses. The challenge includes federal de minimis tariff and trade rules that allow counterfeit and contraband goods to slip into the United States under the radar. Plumbing Manufacturers International (PMI) continues to safeguard the integrity of its members’ products by working with government agencies to curb imports and online sales of counterfeit and contraband products.
Consider a Systemic Approach Before Lowering Flow and Flush Rates
As Aristotle famously said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” The same rings true when managing a building’s plumbing system. In well-engineered systems, all the components — pipes, valves, water heaters, fixtures and fittings, pumps and drains — work together to achieve safe and efficient water flow. However, changing one part of the system by lowering flow rates, for example, can cause unintended safety and operational consequences.
Experts Predict Housing Recovery in Late 2024 through 2025
Economic and real estate experts have forecasted a housing recovery in late 2024 through 2025, delivering good news to plumbing manufacturers, distributors and construction-related trades that serve the housing industry. Population and job growth, shifting demographics and cooling inflation in the United States are set to fuel higher home sales. At the same time, some challenges remain for the commercial and multifamily real estate markets.
PMI’s Pipe Manufacturers Add Vital Views to Water-Efficiency Conversation
The pipe manufacturing members of Plumbing Manufacturers International (PMI) have invested in growth while bringing their essential “behind-the-wall” perspective to the water-efficiency conversation. PMI and its members have advocated for a whole-system approach to help policymakers, especially those in drought-ridden states, understand how rightsized piping systems better support high-efficiency fixtures.
Regulations
Q&A with Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Louisiana President Trey Giglio and Executive Director Crystal Carter PHCC of Louisiana leaders warn that proposed state licensing reforms could weaken training standards, public safety protections and the long-term credibility of the plumbing profession.
May 2020
Facing a New Normal, PMI Members Respond to the Moment By Joel Smith, PMI Board of Directors President, Kohler Co. In my March column, I extolled the virtues of our long Wisconsin winters. I wrote of the joy of an unexpected snowstorm that keeps us holed up in our homes and provides solitary time for focus and planning.
February 2020
Welcome to the World of Forever By Kerry Stackpole, FASAE, CAE, PMI CEO/Executive Director What does it cost you to acquire a new customer? We know on average, the cost of acquiring a new customer is about seven times more than keeping an existing customer. The rudimentary calculation is straight up: Customer acquisition costs (CAC) equal total costs of sales and marketing divided by number of new customers. What we don’t always know is the value of each of those new customer acquisitions.
Beyond Tariffs
By Kerry Stackpole With precious water resources and the trade relationships of its members at stake, Plumbing Manufacturers International (PMI) continues to actively engage on a variety of issues at the federal level in Washington, D.C. Tariffs continue to be an issue for plumbing manufacturers, with the ramifications of these duties expected to impact the industry well into the future.
September 2019
The PMI19 Conference – A Completely New Experience by Nate Kogler, President, PMI Board of Directors; Bradley Corporation During or after you read this article, take a look at the agenda for the PMI19 Conference – Manufacturing Success. You’ll see many topics and sessions you haven’t seen at a PMI Conference before. First off, the Aspiring Leaders’ Program on Nov. 4, the first day, is brand new.
June 2019
Are You Ready for the Next Level of Disruption? By Kerry Stackpole, FASAE, CAE, PMI CEO/Executive Director How disruptive is disruption? In the manufacturing environment, pre-emptive disruption is now a cornerstone of success in the marketplace. While many longstanding companies grew steadily over decades or centuries, some of the great American companies fell quickly. If someone offered to sell you Netflix for $50 million, would you buy it?
May 2019
Taking A Systemic Approach to Reducing Lead in Water By Nate Kogler, President, PMI Board of Directors, Bradley Corporation The thought of potentially having lead in school water is unsettling; exposure to lead can be harmful, particularly to developing children and pregnant women. A recent report from the Environmental America Research & Policy Center and U.S. PIRG Education Fund took nearly two dozen states to task for failing to protect children from lead in drinking water at school.
Two Ways Congress Can Create More Incentives for Water Savings
Congress has a marvelous opportunity as members negotiate the various elements of tax reform and the federal budget. Our senators and representatives have the chance to revise tax rules to reward consumers who save water and to authorize the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s WaterSense program, which has saved 2.1 trillion gallons of water over a little more than a decade.
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