Does your company have a driver retention problem, or is it actually a recruitment issue? Tamara Miller, director of programs and services with Trucking HR Canada said the two causes of turnover should not be lumped together. She noted an ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Elastane yarns give garments stretch and a perfect fit, but they do present a number of production challenges. During warp preparation in particular, the special physical characteristics of the high-stretch synthetic yarns have to be ...
Tags: Karl Mayer, Warping Range, DSE-EC Machine
In the context of pipes and joints, a coupling is a round hollow object that serves as a joining element for two pipes. Flexible pipe couplings are typically used in specific applications that are prone to such issues as angular deflection, ...
The current generation Suzuki Swift has been facelifted, and the jacked up, all-wheel-drive version is now available in right hand drive for the UK market. The Swift ‘4×4’ gets 25mm extra ground clearance, and ...
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On 19 June at the 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 39) in Tampa, FL, scientist Myles Steiner at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported record energy conversion efficiency of ...
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The US industry--consisting of United States Steel Corporation, Maverick Tube Corporation, Boomerang Tube, Energex Tube (a division of JMC Steel Group), Northwest Pipe Company, Tejas Tubular Products, TMK IPSCO, Vallourec Star L.P., and ...
Tags: Steel, Pipe, Tubular Products
Three Ways an Industrial Puller Can Boost ProductivityMcKenzie Fritch, Industrial Pulley Puller How much downtime does the equipment in your plant cost per hour as maintenance technicians work to remove frozen, rusted, or stuck pulleys, ...
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There are certain necessities of metal and non metal parts in industry which are although small in size but helps greatly in smooth working of pipes and machineries. Metal joints or the non metallic bellows helps in the absorption of the ...
Maize now has competition as the most important energy crop for German biogas plants: beets, particularly sugar beets and specially-bred energy beets, are becoming more and more popular. Firstly, they achieve a very high dry matter content, ...
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Intel has joined The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), an industry group that hopes its "flexible wireless power" specification for mobile wireless charging can become an industry standard. Founded by Qualcomm and Samsung, A4WP claims ...
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The Finish Thompson range of drum emptying pumps is now available from Michael Smith Engineers with the option of a new high performance, variable speed electric motor which provides 650 watts of continuous power combined with infinitely ...
Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices has developed a suface-plasmon (SP) enhancement technique for ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produced on silicon substrates [Chu-Young Cho et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, ...
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Large-diameter steel pipe is characterized by large-diameter steel pipe diameter, wall thickness is relatively thick, so taking advantage of this feature based on ultrasound and eddy current testing internal surface and subsurface features ...
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Piping and drainage systems have become a commonplace around domestic, industrial as well as commercial places. These systems are mandatorily involved in every place for variegated uses. Pipes serve the basic purpose of supplying water or ...
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A transnational team of researchers has reported the first electrically pumped exciton-polariton laser device using an arsenide semiconductor microcavity [Christian Schneider et al, Nature, vol. 497, p348, 2013]. The team was variously ...
Tags: Electrical Pumping, Electrical, Electronics