Its home improvement products include window and door profiles, moldings, siding, pipe and pipe fittings and deck, fence, and rail products.

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If Nibco would share with Dow more details about its business, Dow would in essence manage the supply of resin pellets Nibco buys to make plastic to inject into pipe fittings.

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MRC, headquartered in Houston, is the largest global industrial distributor of pipe, valves and fittings to the energy industry, based on sales.

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