Demand for Russian and Eastern European birch plywood on sales markets in Central and Western Europe has still shown no noticeable recovery up until the end of October. Since the softening of demand in August, which was initially attributed ...
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In view of poor economic growth and increasing unemployment, the softwood division of the Timber Trade Federation forecasts that softwood lumber consumption in the UK in 2011 will fall by 4% against last year to 7.82m m³. This is ...
China will stop imports and sales of incandescent lamps beginning with 100W lamps from October 2012. China has unveiled its three-step plan for phasing out energy-inefficient incandescent lamps. The announcement caused shares in US-based ...
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Your windows are vital to the integrity of your thermal envelope. What does that mean? It means that if there's going to be heat or cool air escaping from your home, or if heat or cold is seeping in from the outside, your windows are the ...
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They are usually categorized and named according to the way they are produced, for example, wound beads take their name because they are created by tempered glass around a metal bar, molded beads are named such because they are created with ...
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Global welding market for repairs, maintenance to generate over $3 billion by 2017 Sales volumes for welding equipment and consumables declined worldwide in 2009, but since then the rebound in manufacturing has driven OEMs’ and ...
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US researchers have used zinc-oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency of ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LED). The devices are believed to be the first LEDs that have had their performance enhanced by using the ...
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Since its inception, the MBI has been computed from results of shops that specifically signed up to fill out the survey. Starting with October, the MBI now goes out to a larger, random group of shops that are subscribers to Modern Machine ...
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Increasing demand from energy sectors driving five-year worldwide expansion A global welding market outlook from Frost & Sullivan tracks a 5.8% expansion in arc welding equipment and filler consumption from the 2008 economic downturn ...
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India's solar power costs could fall by more than 40 percent by 2015, allowing the industry to compete against domestic oil and gas firms without the help of state subsidies, the head of Lanco Solar told Reuters on Wednesday. Solar ...
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India's solar power costs could fall by more than 40 percent by 2015, allowing the industry to compete against domestic oil and gas firms without the help of state subsidies, the head of Lanco Solar told Reuters on Wednesday. Solar ...
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Lately, at the launch of GE Lighting’s European Lighting Experience Centre in Hungary,the company’s president and CEO (EMEA) Phil Marshall has anticipated a 150 per cent growth in LED sales but that the company will adopt a ...
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In a bid to reduce its financial burden and keep the metropolis alight even during power cuts, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has moved ahead with a plan to power streetlights with solar panels. A solar panel for streetlight ...
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In a bid to reduce its financial burden and keep the metropolis alight even during power cuts, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has moved ahead with a plan to power streetlights with solar panels. A solar panel for streetlight would ...
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Nowadays, Many outdoor LED displays on the market are built using SMD technology— A trend that is now extending to the outdoor market. The SMD pixel consists of red, green, and blue diodes mounted in a single package, which is then ...
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