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2025 Foreign Exchange and Commodities Report: Key Insights for Manufacturers

Currency Fluctuations, Commodity Prices and the Road Ahead for Manufacturers By Bart Pelton PelRay International Co., A Division of Brush Fibers, Inc. For many years, I presented a report on commodities and currencies at the annual mop and broom convention in St. Louis, Missouri, focusing on their impact on raw material costs in our industry. […]

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2025 Brushware January-February: The Photo Issue

Brushware’s 2025 January-February edition kicks off the new year with our new Photo Issue featuring photos from contributors across the world showcasing the industry and the products. In addition, this issue includes a full report from Bart Pelton on Foreign Exchange and Commodities with charts and a QR code/link to his original video presentation of […]

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PelRay’s David McGee Retires After 35 years

The PelRay International Company has announced that sales manager David McGee will retire at the end of the month after 35 years with the company. He was recruited by Ray LeBlanc in 1986, and became the branch manager of Amex International’s warehouse located in Laredo, Texas. When Amex’s Laredo operations were relocated to San Antonio […]

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Brush Fibers Adds New Division In Mexico

Brush Fibers, Inc. with offices in Arcola, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, has opened a new company located in Monterrey, Mexico. The new entity is called Fibras y Cepillos (translates to Brush Fibers in English) and will be under the supervision of Roberto Sixtos, who will be the general manager of Mexico operations.

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Bart Pelton’s 2020 Economic Report: Part 2

Each year at the National Broom, Mop and Brush Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, Pelray International’s Bart Pelton delivers a comprehensive global economic report. With the 2020 meeting canceled, he presents Part 2 of his 2020 report through the YouTube video above.

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Bart Pelton’s 2020 Economic Report: Part 1

Each year at the National Broom, Mop and Brush Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, Pelray International’s Bart Pelton delivers a comprehensive global economic report. With the 2020 meeting canceled, he presents Part 1 of his 2020 report through the YouTube video above.

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2019 NBMB Meeting: Broomcorn, Tampico and Mop Yarn

The National Broom, Mop and Brush meeting was held October 10-11, 2019, in St. Louis, Mo. Below we have early reports on broomcorn, tampico and mop yarn. Next week, we’ll post reports on handle materials. The Foreign Exchange Report and 2020 Economic Outlook by Bart Pelton will be in the print and digital versions of […]

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