GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -Universal Forest Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UFPI) today announced that a subsidiary of the Company has purchased certain assets of Haleyville, Ala. -based MSR Forest Products, LLC, a supplier of roof trusses and ...
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NASHVILLE, TN - Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE: LPX) says wood product sales for the first quarter were $362 million, 9 percent higher than a year ago. A net loss of $11.3 million was less than half the loss reported the year prior. "All of our ...
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Cement results 1Q12 Dangote Cement has released its financial results for 1Q12. The results reveal an 8.9% y/y increase in profit before tax, rising from N27.4 billion in 2011 to N31.6 billion in 2012. Operating profits grew 13.7% y/y to ...
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The National Cement Factory (NCF), Holcim and the Higher Cooperation for Specialized Economic Zones (ZonesCorp) organized a joint full-day cleanup campaign for ICAD I yesterday. The campaign represents one of the many cooperative ...
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Long-term prospects for the UAE cement industry are bright due to growth in investment in infrastructure in the UAE, GCC and key foreign markets, the latest study by Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry finds. The UAE has the potential to ...
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UK-One of London's top rehearsal studios has upgraded its flagship Studio A with end-to-end RCF TT+active loudspeakers. Charlie Barrett,who has run Terminal Studios for the past 28 of its 33 years,has been heavily committed to ...
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USA-Richard Pilbrow,founder of Theatre Project Consultants(TPC)and one of the world's leading theatre design consultants,will give the keynote address at the North American Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference(NATEAC)in New York ...
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small bedroom decorating ideas(bedroomscentral.com) Are you boring when you see your bedroom but you don't have enough budgets to redesign or make big bedroom remodeling project?I think it's time for you to have small bedroom ...
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Yo yo,real talk,hip hop:talking to kids these days is an impossible barrage of'easy now'and'Facebook,Twitter'and'Mum,I think I'm pregnant'. But while there's nothing worse than a cool dad donning a backwards baseball cap and trying to ...
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When trees are felled to create solid wood products - such as lumber for housing - the wood retains most of its locked-up carbon, say scientists who suggest that previous climate models for carbon emissions from deforestation need revision. ...
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You may wonder where a degree from Polytechnic University of Milan might take you, well it could be the starting place for an illuminating chair design. Graduates of Polytechnic University of Milan, Andrew Root and Folco Orlandini have been ...
Three of the four top cement players that have so far reported results for the March 2012 quarter, have recorded higher operating profit margins year-on-year. Some have improved it sequentially, too, helped by higher realisations. At Rs ...
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Surteco generated growth in turnover in the 2011 financial year in almost all partial sectors. Total revenues were up by 5% to €408.8m and the gap to the record level of ?15m achieved in 2007 was again narrowed. However, following a ...
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UK-CP Sound has completed a full sound system installation at an upmarket Mexican restaurant in London's Soho district. The brainchild of Will Ricker(who heads up Ricker Restaurants),top New York nightlife designer,impresario ...
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Leading outdoor furniture company Milan Direct has announced that despite mixed summer weather, sales in outdoor furniture are experiencing an unrivalled boom. Indicating that while summer in Australia can be as different as our landscape, ...
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