Walter Industries Inc., the parent company of Chattanooga's U.S. Pipe & Foundry, agreed in June 2005 to pay $860 million in cash to buy another Chattanooga foundry, Mueller Water Products. Walter ...
The hiring managers at the old U.S. Pipe and Wheland Foundry facilities appreciated men from Whiteside, a rural community in Marion County famous for supplying tough-as-nails workers to Chattanooga's ...