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    Robroy Industries to buy competitor Perma-Cote

    July 1, 2003
    Robroy Industries, Verona, Pa., has entered into an agreement to buy its long-time rival Perma-Cote Industries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Perma-Cote,

    Robroy Industries, Verona, Pa., has entered into an agreement to buy its long-time rival Perma-Cote Industries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    Perma-Cote, Uniontown, Pa., with a total of 130 employees, manufactures PVC-coated conduit, fittings and accessories at its plant in Mt. Braddock, Pa. All Perma-Cote employees will be laid off after the deal is finalized on July 15 and Perma-Cote's manufacturing plant will close down, said both Gearing and Peter McIlroy II, chairman of the board and chief executive officer for Robroy.

    Both brands will operate as separate entities and Perma-Cote will join Robroy's conduit division, which had $36 million in 1998 sales. Robroy will integrate all manufacturing of Perma-Cote products into its facility in Gilmer, Texas, McIlroy said.

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    Doug Chandler | Senior Staff Writer

    Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.

    Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.

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