The wells that supply irrigation water for the golf course are being affected by accelerating seawater intrusion. The Kittansett Club's Desalitech Closed Circuit Desalination (CCD) unit will treat 100 gallons per minute of well water ...
Linear Technology has revealed its solution to the thorny problem of active cell balancing in electric and hybrid vehicle batteries. Implemented in the newly-released LTC3300, the topology uses one fly-back transformer per cell and allows ...
City Furniture has opened its 10th Ashley Furniture HomeStore, in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area, to take advantage of a recovering market in Florida. City Furniture has opened a 25,000-square foot Ashley Furniture HomeStore here, its ...
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The 83rd International Geneva motor show is open to the public until March 17, and has delivered some of the automotive world’s biggest and most significant debuts. From revolutionary supercars like the hybrid-powered McLaren P1 and ...
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The Opel Adam Rocks concept has highlighted the customisation potential of General Motors Europe’s new city car in its 2013 Geneva motor show unveiling. The “urban mini crossover” design study combines the pint-sized ...
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Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending March 8, the US rig count fell by five to 1,752, following a four-rig decrease the week prior. During the week, the oil rig count increased by eight to 1,341 while the gas-directed rig ...
In the January-February period of the current year, Ukrainian metallurgical coke plant Zaporozhcoke saw a 0.9 percent year-on-year decrease in its coke production to 212,000 mt. In February alone, Zaporozhcoke produced 100,000 mt of coke, ...
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According to the Mineral Industry Survey released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), US iron ore production in December 2012 was 4.65 million mt, up 1.5 percent over the November level and up slightly by 0.4 percent year on year. In 2012, ...
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According to the indexes issued by the European Steel Association (EUROFER), local scrap prices in the European Union (EU) in February this year indicated declines of 3.69-4.95 percent compared to January levels, after a three-month uptrend ...
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Retailer Pier 1 Imports said fourth quarter sales rose 15.7% as store traffic increased and customers rang up higher average tickets. In a preliminary financial report, Pier 1 said sales for the 14-week quarter ended March 2 totaled $552 ...
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Furniture Today's On the Water report in the fourth quarter, continues to offer a look at furniture import activity based on twenty-foot equivalent (TEU) container traffic, arriving at U.S. ports, from key Asian countries. In October the ...
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The mattress industry will record a 4% gain in unit shipments this year, while the wholesale value of those shipments will jump by 6.8%. Those are the predictions of Furniture/Today's Consensus Bedding Forecast, which reflects the views ...
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According to a pair of recently released reports, demand for information security experts in the United States is outstripping the available supply by a widening margin. A report from Burning Glass Technologies, which develops ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's pig iron imports amounted to 59,921 mt, down sharply compared to the 149,563 metric tons recorded in the previous month and the ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steel producer Hebei Iron and Steel Group (HBIS) has announced that it has signed contracts for sales of 10.42 million mt of finished steel. The group’s deputy general manager, Zhang Hai, signed the ...