Travis Perkins plc has reported a 7.3% rise in pre-tax profits for the first six months but says the exceptionally wet weather wiped around £10m off its results. Chief executive Geoff Cooper said the prolonged period of rain affected ...
The downhill trend in the price indices for solid wood products for manufacturing wooden pallets and wooden packaging did not continue in the second quarter of 2012. The HPE wood-price index for “solid wood for wooden pallets” ...
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The downhill trend in the price indices for solid wood products for manufacturing wooden pallets and wooden packaging did not continue in the second quarter of 2012. The HPE wood-price index for “solid wood for wooden pallets” ...
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Holcim Ltd. (HOLN) may receive a fine this year for price fixing in Brazil that is a third less than the maximum expected by the cement maker. Antitrust regulator Cade will probably issue a penalty of 20 percent of Holcim’s 2005 ...
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Siam Cement, a barometer of Thailand s corporate health, posted April-June net profit of 4.28 billion Thai baht ($135 million), down from 7.49 billion baht a year earlier. Eleven analysts polled by Reuters had forecast an average net profit ...
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Woodworkers are extremely passionate about their table saws. That’s at least one thing we’ve learned from our multiple postings about efforts to mandate saw safety by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and more ...
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Edilgrappa's new cordless cutter/spreader tool is designed for all applications in rescue operations. This combination tool - or 'combi-tool' as referred to by rescue personnel - is available from leading innovator of hydraulic technology, ...
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battenfeld-cincinnati has introduced a new Multi-Touch polishing stack that can achieve a high degree of transparency, good flatness and an even film thickness for a great variety of materials, such as PS, PET or PP, as well as EVA or ...
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North American OSB manufacturers are still operating well below their technical production capacity. Estimates drawn up by two producers - Norbord and Louisiana-Pacific - show that mills continued to operate below 60% capacity in 2011. ...
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This study evaluates the influence of an applied electric field during ultrafiltration of wastewater from cathodic electrodeposition (CED). The influence of the electric field depends on the applied voltage and transmembrane pressure, and ...
On 18 July 2012, the Russian Federation Council approved the protocol for Russia’s accession to the WTO. The country will now become a full WTO member 30 days by 22 August at the latest. After that Russia will reduce export duty on ...
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Johns Manville has introduced a single brand name for its Nonwovens business - Evalith. The name comes from the Latin word evalidus, which means very strong. Johns Manville chose Evalith to represent the strength of its products in terms of ...
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THydraulic Institute (HI) members have approved a bylaw change which broadens eligibility for associate membership to include companies that manufacture products or develop software for use in or with pumps and pumping systems. he new bylaw ...
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The U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, in Madison, says it's opening a $1.7 million pilot plant that will support an emerging market for wood products derived from nanotechnology. The products could be stronger than Kevlar and lighter than ...
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Seattle -- Prices for woody biomass in the US, whether sawmill by-products, forestresidues or urban wood waste, have been sliding for most of the past three years, but werestill higher late in 2011 in most regions than they were five years ...
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