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On December 24, 1958, Sterling President, J. Wesley Ruby, announced the purchase of a Glauber of Texas, Inc. which was a brass manufacturing plant located in [[Tyler, Texas]] with 115 employees. In the same press release, it was informed that two more plants, one in Ohio and one in Massachusetts will be integrated with five the company operates in West Virginia<ref>{{cite news|title=West Virginia Firm buys Plant in Texas|publisher=The Corpus Christy Caller-Times|date=25 November 1954|location=Corpus Christy, Texas|page=10}}</ref>
In 1963, a gas regulator and meter plant was built in Sheridan Arkansas by the Reynolds Gas Regulator Company (subsidiary of [[CenterPoint Energy | Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company]]).<ref>{{cite news|title=Industrial Gains in Four cities|publisher=Baxter Bulletin|date=1 Nov 1962|location=Mountain Home, Arkansas|page=10}}</ref> By 1965, this plant was part of Rockwell Manufacturing Co.<ref>{{cite news|title=State Briefs|publisher=The El Dorado Times|date=14 July 1965|location=El Dorado, Arkansas|page=6}}</ref> The plant later will be transformed into a faucet manufacturing facility for the production of Sterling Faucets.
By 1967, Sterling Faucet Co. reached 28 million USD in sales. Sterling Faucet Company operated plants in Reedsville, West Virginia, Tyler, Texas, and Ontario, Canada employing about 2,000 workers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rockwell Co. to Purchase W.Va. Company|publisher=The Daily Republican|date=18 November 1968|location=Monongahela, Pennsylvania|page=5}}</ref>
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