"It won't sell the programs to other pipe companies," he said.
Ecovative's "campus" now bridges a parking lot, shared with industrial pipe companies, janitorial services, and a wind turbine manufacturer.
When Ukraine began selling its assets in the 1990s, Mr. Pinchuk built up stakes for a few million dollars in two pipe companies, which are now worth billions.
They founded SMP Bank in 2001, and used it to acquire stakes in construction, gas, and pipe companies; by the mid-aughts, the brothers had become one of Russia's main suppliers of large-diameter gas pipes.
And it has proven enormously profitable, fueling the company's growth beyond its original foundry, the McWane Cast Iron Pipe Company, just northeast of downtown Birmingham.
He returned to the New Haven area in 1953 and became a sales manager for automobile dealerships and then for a concrete pipe company in Hamden.
Mr. Weissman, a chess player and Chinese food lover who was a founder of a glass pipe company and had been temporarily staying at the apartment, was working on a plea deal stemming from an earlier drug arrest.
A14 Pipe Company Fined $196,000 The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that McWane Inc., an Alabama-based pipe manufacturer with one of the worst workplace safety records in America, has been fined $196,000 for new violations at Tyler Pipe, a sprawling foundry with 1,200 employees in Texas.
"You see what the rat planned," said Farage Mohamed, a manager in an oil pipe company, as he led the way to the base of an escape hatch that emerged deep in the gardens of this sprawling former Qaddafi villa in liberated eastern Libya.
The indictment charges that senior McWane managers, including Charles Robison, the corporation's vice president for environmental affairs, conspired to dump huge quantities of polluted wastewater into a creek that runs through McWane's oldest foundry, the McWane Cast Iron Pipe Company, on the outskirts of downtown Birmingham.
The former executive, Franklin Marold, said that in late 1999 and early 2000 he told McWane's president, Mr. Page, and McWane's general counsel, James M. Proctor II, that the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company, the McWane plant in Utah, was doctoring air emission tests.
