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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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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For abrasives manufacturers working in the US construction industry, the forecast for next year is that housing and commercial building construction starts may improve, but will be offset by weakness in the public works and institutional ...
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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 would ...
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Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to be the first LEDs whose ...
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Floating solar panelsFloating solar panels to generate green energy while on the waves What's happening right now? Solar plants occupy a very big area of land and now floating solar plants are being developed to overcome the shortage of ...
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Germany, the world’s biggest solar- panel market, will cut subsidies for photovoltaic power by a record amount next year as the government tries to control the pace of installations and wean the industry off support. Rates under the ...
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The output of hardwood lumber within the EU (EU27) rose by 10.7% last year to 9.5m m³. According to the figures presented at this year’s International Hardwood Conference (IHC) in Brasov another slight rise is expected in the ...
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Negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan on Thursday issued a joint statement regarding the negotiation of a cross-Strait investment protection agreement. The statement was issued by the mainland's Association for Relations Across ...
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The industrial behemoth is about to start building the largest panel factory in the us, and expects to begin commercial shipments in 2013. General electric (GE) has ended speculation about the location of its planned 400 mw cdte solar panel ...
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