Plumbing & Mechanical asked several plumbing manufacturers to explain what American manufacturing means to them today. Watch this video to see what they had to say.

Rinnai America announced its soon-to-be-completed North American facility located in Griffin, Georgia. Rinnai is investing in product development for tankless water heaters, boilers, wall furnaces and more on US soil. Alongside business development, Rinnai will also play a role in the local economy by fulfilling 150 positions by early 2022. 

The nearly 200,000 square-foot manufacturing facility is being custom designed and built, and will become the technological flagship for the company’s operations and one of the most advanced plastics manufacturing facilities in the industry.

After completion of both expansions in 2022, the total Uponor North America building square footage will exceed one million.

When fully operational, the new plant will house additional ProPress production lines of various products and sizes.

Copper alloy structures have changed drastically within the past decade to comply with low lead requirements for potable water. Common compositions added to the new alloys were bismuth, silicon, or binary alloys. The creation of these new brass and bronze structures resulted in concerns with valve performance by both engineers and contractors.