The US company Louisiana-Pacific plans to expand its European distribution of engineered wood products (EWP) launched in the UK in 2010 into the markets in continental Europe as well this year. The EWP are being sold in the UK under the ...
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The Austrian company IFN-Holding intends to invest roughly €40m in 2012 in new technologies, products and the expansion of its business locations. Most of that amount, at roughly €30m, will go to the expansion of window production ...
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TECO is North America's value-added, truly independent third-party certification agency for building products. We certify all types of structural and non-structural panel products including: OSB, plywood, particleboard, and MDF panels ...
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Sparton Onyx, a subsidiary of Sparton, has acquired Onyx EMS, a manufacturer of medical devices for OEM and emerging technology companies, for $43.25m in cash. Onyx's commercial products include cardiovascular diagnostics, hearing ...
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As an ancient custom, Nuo basically means greeting the god to exorcize the ghost of pestilence. Nuo dance refers to the dance performed at grand Nuo ceremonies. With a long history, it can be dated back to the record of "folk Nuo" in The ...
Nuo is a phenomenon of witchcraft culture which has its root in Chinese primitive religion and means to drive away devils. Primitive people thought that all diseases were caused by devils. The ritual activities of Nuo were already in ...
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To help ensure that you achieve the torque accuracy required of your application, it is important to select a power tool with low scatter and low mean shift. Joint stiffness varies, so it's necessary to make an allowance for it to achieve ...
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At the upcoming annually Fifi Awards, the 2012 Elizabeth Taylor Fragrance Celebrity of the Year Award will go to Justin Bieber and his “Someday” fragrance that made $3 million in just three weeks at US department store ...
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The storytelling art of northern Shaanxi is a very important folk art form in northwestern areas of China. It is mainly popular in northern Shaanxi, such as Yan'an, Yulin etc. It originated from the performances of some poor blind men ...
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Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that the priest of the religion is called ...
Kedao (record by carving) of the Miao minority, also called the marital song there, is a kind of Miao toast song in Shibing County. The general content of the song is carved on the cylinder bamboo or wood club and the Miao people would hold ...
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With effect from 1 January 2013, the Swedish timber and pulp concern Södra will take over the Swedish flooring manufacturer Föllinge Golv via its subsidiary Södra Interiör. Föllinge Golv produces 40,000 m² of ...
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In the first half of the 2012/2013 financial year (end of March), the British company Accsys Technologies, the parent company of the Dutch wood-modification company Titan Wood, again increased turnover year on year by 47% to €9.1m, ...
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It was the development of a brilliant and shiny glass, called aventurine glass or goldstone, which exceeded all other Low-E glass. Even to this day, Murano glass is unsurpassed. The glass-makers of Murano did not just stop at aventurine ...
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It is popular in the south of China and produced in Foshan, Guangdong Province. It originated in the Yongle Period of the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qianlong Period and the Jiaqing Period of the Qing Dynasty. The picture shops were ...
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