US Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller has asked the General Accountability Office to examine the impact of shale oil and gas development on pipelines, rail and other transportation infrastructure and safety, in light of the ...
While employment and productivity in the construction industry are on the upswing nationwide, the West Coast is seeing slower growth in parts. Construction employment in Oregon and Washington is growing steadily, but slowly. California's ...
The boss of Hyundai USA admits the brand needs a third SUV and has highlighted the burgeoning sub-compact crossover market as a priority. Hyundai Motor America president and CEO John Krafcik told reporters the brand had failed to take ...
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A 52-inch sleeper variant of Kenworth’s new-generation T680 was available to drive at a mid-July Kenworth customer event at its Chillicothe, Ohio plant. T680 Kenworth’s “new-generation” bowed in with the T680 at ...
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The demand for wires and welding products is rapidly increasing with booming infrastructure market. These products are widely known for their immense utility. These products are specifically deigned to meet netting, binding as well as ...
As business are looking for increasing their production, numerous methods have been introduced in the market. Among them, oiling and greasing are conventional methods. Although these are traditional ways of enhancing machine functioning, it ...
At the SEMICON West trade show in San Francisco (9-11 July), Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
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Chinese have been using the green and leafy andrographis paniculata to treat inflammation, fever and pain for decades, with its cultivation dating back to at least the 1950s in the southern province of Guangdong. The plant, better known ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Corporation, for the supply of a new slitting line. This production line will be ...
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Shell's hopes for a new gas-to-liquids mega project on the US Gulf Coast would benefit from much-improved process efficiencies, but any resulting cost savings could be limited by the need to build most of the plant outside the US, Shell ...
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The definition of an "ugly Christmas sweater" is any sweater with a Christmas theme that is considered in bad taste, tacky, or gaudy. While what is in bad taste is debatable, general consensus says that more is uglier, more embellishments, ...
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Atmospheric air is full of pollutants and moisture. The water droplets present in it carry innumerable toxic elements that not only affect human or animal life on earth but also slow down machines in industries. Hence these decrease ...
Gasoline cracks have plunged in the wake of recent data from the US Energy Information Administration showing unseasonably high gasoline inventories across the country, particularly in the East Coast. The NYMEX August RBOB crack spread ...
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The creation of Android malware is now mature enough for there to be development cycles that mimic those of the legitimate software world, a report from Juniper Networks has concluded. According to the?firm's annual survey of the ...
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