If you have a bathroom with a bathtub, then you are very lucky. Not many people have the luxury of relaxing in a warm soaking bath. However, keeping the bathroom walls dry is quite difficult when you have a bathtub installed. This is where ...
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Radiant floor heat is starting to get noticed as a mainstream heating option for homes across the country. Compared to just about every other heating option on the market, including gas furnaces, boilers, electric baseboard heat, and wood ...
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One of the most popular flooring materials in the present times, marble flooring has been in use for ages. Today, marble flooring is more affordable than ever before, resulting in more and more people choosing marble for their homes. ...
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While marble is one of the most elegant flooring materials available, that does not mean that you can’t have it in your own home. Marble is more available than ever and can add a beautiful touch to any room. The Popularity of Marble ...
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You may not think of vinyl as your choice for eco-friendly. You may also think that vinyl and linoleum are the same thing. They are not. Linoleum is made from natural materials, whereas vinyl is man-made. Linoleum biodegrades. Whereas vinyl ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from German-based Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM) to modernize the continuous slab caster No. 1 in the Duisburg-Huckingen plant. ...
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On Thursday, US Steel Canada sent a letter to United SteelWorkers Local 8782, to advise that the company is giving union workers 72 hours' notice of its intention to lockout employees at 9:00am on April 28, 2013. On Tuesday, Local USW ...
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Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has announced its production and sales data for the first quarter of the current year. According to the company statement, NLMK's crude steel output in the first quarter increased to 3.692 million ...
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The Office in a Box from Toshihiko Suzuki is one of many portable office solutions cropping up as workers complain about the lack of privacy in open offices. Thanks to penny-pinching business owners who also want to see more ...
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According to statistics, the US exports of stainless steel products totaled 51,413 tons in February, falling by 8.7% from a month ago and touching the second-lowest volume since July, 2011. Among them, 19,652 tons were cold rolled stainless ...
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Ukrainian steelmaker Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works (Alchevsk), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), has announced that in April this year its plans to increase its crude steel production by 10-11 ...
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Until now, people have heard of 24 karat gold ornaments, which are very popular in countries like India. In some Asian countries, there are traditional costumes that have a gold thread woven in it or have golden borders. These are generally ...
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India's Ministry of Steel has made it mandatory for 16 steel products which have a direct bearing on consumer health and safety to be registered with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) under the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) ...
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Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that it has successfully passed an audit conducted by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), a Norwegian certification agency, to become a potential supplier of slabs for large-diameter pipe manufacturing to be used ...
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It’s reported that the Taiwanese steel pipe makers may remain the prices flat for Aprilif Chung Hung Steel, one of the major upstream material suppliers to steel pipe producers keeps its list prices unchanged for April. In fact, ...
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