Day: April 5, 2011

Launch Pad 39B, a historic component of the NASA space shuttle program, begins its next life with the help of AMERICAN’s recycling facility.

Michael A. Petrus has been named assistant works manager for AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company.

Frank C. Pausic has been named director of the new Quality Assurance Division at AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company.

Charles S. Peek has been named vice president of Manufacturing and works manager at AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company.

The Retirees Club of AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company celebrated an era in the company’s history on Wednesday, July 14, when 13 former ACIPCO baseball players gathered to remember their days on the diamond.

In a study of the effects of earthquakes on water and sewer pipe, ductile iron pipe with restrained joints proved superior to other pipe materials, according to a paper by Michael Tucker, senior sales engineer with AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe in Tulsa, Okla. The paper was published in the May 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association.

AMERICAN (American Cast Iron Pipe Company) has received the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award in recognition of workplace practices promoting employee well-being and organizational performance. The national award was presented to the company in ceremonies held in Washington, D.C., on March 6.