After many years in the family business working for Jackson-Markus supply, Kevin and Andy’s father, Ron Kurstin, started RWK International in 1974, supplying industrial pipe valves and fittings. RWK grew to four distribution centers across the USA; however, in 1993 when the economy collapsed, RWK closed its doors. Shortly thereafter, Ron Kurstin started Smith Cooper […]
Recognizing the similarities between the plumbing, PVF, and electrical industries, Dan Markus, uncle of Kevin and Andy, founded Calpipe Industries to focus on applying his family’s leading marketing and distributing policy to the electrical industry. […]
In the early 1960s, Harold and his brothers Alvin and Arnold (great-uncles of Kevin and Andy Kurstin of Wayland Industries) expanded into stainless steel and nickel alloy weld fittings by starting Sun Weld Fitting, Co. With Sun Weld, they serviced a rapidly-growing market in refining, petrochemical, food processing, breweries, marine and other industries. They grew […]
Kevin and Andy Kurstin’s grandfather, Harold Markus was another early pioneer in the PVF industry, starting in 1933 in Tulsa, Okla., in the pipe and oil well supply business. Following service in World War II, Harold Markus took over Jackson-Markus Supply in Los Angeles in 1946. […]
