Are you sick of your phone? It's probably better than getting sick from your phone… which is probably covered in bacteria from all those times you tap or swipe the glass screen every day. Corning wants to help you keep your phone ...
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Corning Inc. plans to showcase the latest advancements in its Gorilla Glass and optical fiber cables at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The annual event is an internationally known showcase for new technology. ...
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Transportation -- A patent application by the inventors Ogawa, Takayuki (Yokohama-shi, JP); Nishi, Mizuki (Matsusaka-shi, JP); Furuhashi, Kazunori (Matsusaka, JP), filed on March 2, 2012, ...
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Multicolored sunlight shines brighter inside and out of First Presbyterian Church. Susan and David Allsbrooks, of Burns, set the final section of restored stained glass at the church two weeks ago, more than a century after the window ...
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Intricate glass pieces, a range of wearable metal creations and innovative metal sculptures created by artists from around the country, will be on display and available for purchase at “Molten,” an upcoming nationally juried ...
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A well-engineered window or "light" in the right environment can transform a building project. However, David De Rose, executive vice president of restoration practice at Halsall Associates notes that it isn’t a question of whether ...
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A new type of touchscreen glass that combats bacteria and fungi has been unveiled US firm Corning said its Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass contains ionic silver, a substance that has been used to fight germs for more than 100 years. The ...
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The US Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced Thursday that construction spending during November 2013 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $934.4 billion, 1.0 percent (±1.6 percent) above the revised ...
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Beaulieu America announced a 30% waste reduction across all 22 of its facilities after just six months, in its ongoing effort to reach a "landfill-free" status by the end of 2015, according to Beth Randolph, director of risk management who ...
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The movement for healthier, high-performing buildings has reached a new milestone, as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued the 20,000th LEED certification for a commercial project. In December 2013, USGBC's Green Building ...
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Sales of newly built, single-family homes declined 2.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 464,000 units in November 2013 from an upwardly revised strong pace of 474,000 units in the previous month, according to data released by the ...
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Rhino Linings Corporation has acquired the assets of Expo Industries Inc., a San Diego-based manufacturer of Expo Stucco interior and exterior stucco products, sealers, bonders, patch products and plaster mixes. This acquisition expands ...
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Saudi Arabia's cement sector is facing a slowdown in demand due to the knock-on effect that the recent visa crackdown in the Kingdom has had on construction projects. Efforts to boost Saudi employment in the construction sector has led to ...
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Iran is the largest cement producer in the Middle East according to an industry survey which also placed it in the top five in the global market for the building material. The figures were released as the country hosted the sixth ...
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FLSmidth has won a contract worth $94.9m with Qatari cement producer Al Khalij Cement to supply a complete cement production line for a plant in Umm Bab, approximately 100km east of Doha. The production line will be a duplicate of the ...
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