PMI Names New Strategic Advisory Council Members, Identifies Trade Challenges

Six high executives from Plumbing Producers Worldwide member firms have been named to the affiliation’s Strategic Advisory Council.

The executives are Andres Caballero, president, Uponor North America; Jill Ehnes, president, Delta Faucet Co.; Shawn Oldenhoff, senior vice chairman, class administration, Kitchen and Tub North America, Kohler Co.; Invoice Strang, president of company technique, ecommerce and buyer care, TOTO USA; council chair Todd Teter, president, Home of Rohl and WINN EMEAA at Fortune Manufacturers Improvements; and Claude Theisen, president and CEO, T&S Brass and Bronzeworks.

The council’s goal is threefold:

1. To supply strategic counsel to the PMI Board of Administrators on key points impacting the business, as PMI works to make sure future generations have dependable entry to secure, clear water.
2. To function mentors to PMI board members {and professional} workers.
3. To activate and interact in PMI’s Washington and California Legislative Boards in assist of PMI’s advocacy efforts to affect coverage on vital points for the business and PMI member firms.

The council was supplied an outline of PMI’s mission and strategic focus throughout a latest assembly with PMI CEO/Govt Director Kerry Stackpole and the present and speedy previous presidents of the PMI Board of Administrators – Chip Approach of Lavelle Industries and Sal Gattone of LIXIL. Teter then lead a dialogue of challenges going through the business, with council members naming provide chain challenges, tariffs and tax coverage as among the many elements impacting their companies.

Stackpole supplied an replace on the state of PMI, emphasizing how PMI members profit from the affiliation’s advocacy effort. “PMI displays roughly 135 key points. Final yr, that translated into greater than 1,300 completely different legislative proposals and about 50 potential rules,” he defined. “Holding monitor of those proposals allows PMI to advocate for our members on the federal, state and native ranges of presidency.”

He mentioned PMI’s efforts to revive the analysis and growth tax deduction, which helps plumbing business innovation, in addition to the affiliation’s ongoing efforts to encourage the substitute of older, inefficient legacy merchandise with water-efficient fixtures and fittings to avoid wasting water.

The council is scheduled to collect subsequent in June. “We’re very solicitous of their involvement as a result of we need to get their perspective,” Stackpole said. “And I feel they appreciated the chance to listen to and get a first-hand replace from the leaders of the affiliation, whereas having the chance to offer their recommendation to us.”