58 Business View - August 2015
JM Eagle
“Building essentials for a better tomorrow”
JM Eagle Corporation is one of the world’s leading
manufacturers of plastic pipe. Its 22 manufacturing
plants throughout North America produce the widest
array of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyethylene (PE)
pipe on the market. The company’s annual revenue
comes from customers in a variety of industrial sec-
tors, including utility, plumbing, irrigation, electrical,
natural gas, drainage and sewage, and retail. While
JM Eagle sells direct to some very large international
companies, many of its products are sold through a
network of distributors who then supply them to their
eventual end users – states, counties, cities, and
towns across the United States.
JM Eagle’s forebear was Formosa Plastics, a Taiwan-
ese firm that, in 1982, purchased the eight plants
comprising the plastic pipe operations of the New Jer-
sey-based Johns Manville Company, to form J-M Man-
ufacturing. In 2005, Walter Wang, the son of Wang
Yung-Ching, founder of Formosa Plastics, and when
alive, one of the world’s wealthiest men, acquired
100 percent of the company from his father, after hav-
ing grown J-M’s sales by a multiple of five, over the
years. The younger Wang expanded the company to a
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