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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>
 
InOn 1963August 1962, 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]]) announced the construction of a gas regulator and meter facility in [[Sheridan, Arkansas]].<ref>{{cite news|title=IndustrialSheridan GainsGets in FourGas citiesPlant|publisher=BaxterThe BulletinNorthwest Arkansas Times|date=118 NovAug 1962|location=Mountain HomeFayetteville, Arkansas|page=102}}</ref> ByOne 1965,year thislater (on August 1963) while the plant was partunder ofconstruction, Arkla Industries Inc. sold the plant to Rockwell Manufacturing Co.<ref>{{cite news|title=StateArkla BriefsIndustries Sales is disclosed|publisher=The ElSpringfield Dorado TimesNews-Leader|date=143 JulyAug 19651963|location=El DoradoSpringfield, ArkansasMissouri |page=67}}</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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