Bill Levan, executive vice president of the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute (CISPI), reacted angrily to an article appearing in the August issue of PM under the headline "PMI Warns UPC Code Proposal Threatens Private Labeling."
According to Levan, we made a factual error in identifying Richmond Foundries as "a former cast iron pipe manufacturer and CISPI member." He said there are two companies with similar names, neither of which have ever been a CISPI member, and that there has never been a "courtroom battle" between CISPI and Richmond, as was reported.