Upbeat housing forecasts, including a projected 22-percent increase in single-family housing starts for 2013, made for a giddy International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Our editors and analysts were among the 60,000 or so attendees there ...
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UK-based Nicholl Food Packaging will showcase its latest tray developments, which include an ‘eco-friendly’ hybrid format as well as further additions to its aluminum tray range at Pro2Pac 2013. Nicholl will display its ...
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We've seen remote-controlled thermostats, door locks, and even washing machines. Now GE is bringing the convenience to cooking appliances, with the launch of its new wall ovens at the International Builders' Show. The ovens, available in ...
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The new 300,000 sq ft Diamond Pet Foods facility in Ripon, CA went online in May 2012 with more than 500 high efficiency, Class II Div 2 LED fixtures by Dialight, provider of industrial and hazardous location LED lighting. Through combined ...
High-pressure pipelines are used for transporting oil and gas. It is important to test the permeation of the materials used to manufacture the pipelines for a number of reasons. Firstly it is essential to test what levels compounds from the ...
Luxembourg-based plantmaker Paul Wurth has announced that it will supply a new coke making plant including a by-products plant and coke oven machines for Indonesia's PT Gunung Raja Paksi within the scope of the steelmaker's capacity ...
Ellutia Ltd are pleased to announce they are now able to offer the GC Racer and GC Chaser to its UK customers. These exciting GC accessories can speed up analysis cycle times, increasing throughput and productivity of your lab. The GC ...
Whether to employ central washing stations or point-of-use washers located under a lab bench or in a corner needs to be addressed with regards to laboratory glassware washers. The former provide an economy of scale and are popular with lab ...
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Typically, double-oven ranges feature one large oven and one smaller chamber. But the new Frigidaire Symmetry Double Oven ranges have, as the name implies, two same-sized ovens. Consumer Reports tested two of the 30-inch electric smoothtop ...
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With manufacturers touting double-oven ranges for their flexibility, Consumer Reports has been testing more electric smoothtop and gas ranges with two ovens. Of the 21 models in our labs, five performed so well that we recommend them. But ...
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The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas offers a treasure trove of gadgetry. IDEACENTRE COMPUTER TABLE By Lenovo The IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC brings the family together over a tablet the size of a coffee ...
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It can talk to your car, your refrigerator, water your plants and help you stay fit and healthy: the smartphone is becoming the consumer's remote control for life. That was the message delivered by dozens of firms at the International ...
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One outcome of the prolonged housing slump has been that when consumers postponed renovating their kitchens and buying large appliances, manufacturers got busy redesigning small ones. The rosy results can be found in the housewares ...
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If you're going to spend five grand for a beefy pro-style range, you'd expect that it can bake evenly and broil burgers well. But that wasn't the case with two new pro-styles from Jenn-Air and Thermador that Consumer Reports tested ...
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Leading shopping site PriceGrabber.com® today revealed the latest online shopping behavior and trends over the busiest shopping period of the year. The findings indicated that Black Friday has turned into "Black Week," with sales ...
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