Barnes Industrial Plastic Piping sold

TAMPA — Ryan Herco Flow Solutions, a Burbank, Calif.-based specialty distributor of fluid-handling products has purchased Barnes Industrial Plastic Piping in Tampa.

“Barnes has tremendous strength in the Florida contractor marketplace and has developed unique capabilities to service these customers,” Chuck Moyer, CEO of Ryan Herco, says in a press release. "The combination of the two companies will be very powerful and gives us the ability to acquire and add significant value to customers in all size segments and end-markets."

Moyer says Ryan Herco is hoping to acquire more companies like Barnes over the next few years.