“The mild winter hit this category hard, resulting in a 10 per cent unit and 14 per cent value decline, compared to 2012,” said Sunbeam product manager — seasonal products, Katie Berra. “Even with the best products, ...
Tags: electric blanket market, restore value to the market, warm weather
Washington – Sales at CE and appliance retailers fell 4.7 percent to $8.1 billion in January as severe winter weather compounded soft demand. According to the U.S. Commerce Department’s monthly sales projections, total U.S. ...
Temperatures across the Midwest this morning range from the 20s and 30s across northern areas with some lower 40s across southern regions. Most of us will be greeted by abundant sunshine this morning, with sun across western areas fading ...
Tags: Winter Weather, Gulf, river transportation, Des Moines
All three nearby futures contracts closed higher for the third consecutive week. Strong export demand and concerns about cold, dry conditions in the U.S. Plains pushed futures to a two-month high on Wednesday. Profit taking efforts led to ...
Tags: Wheat Price, Food
Angelonia made the cut. So did several cultivars of celosia, gaillardia, impatiens, lantana and petunias. Those flowers and more are on the new Kansas State University list of Prairie Star Annual Flowers. The Prairie Star program was ...
Tags: Flowers, Prairie Climate
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has found that temperature feedback in the Arctic is causing more warming in that region than sea ice albedo. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
Tags: Max Planck, polar cap, Arctic, Climate Warming
In studying a material that prevents marine life from sticking to the bottom of ships, researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a surprising replacement for the only ...
Tags: UNC, PFPE, Ion Battery, team
The bench-scale test widely used to evaluate whether a burning cigarette will ignite upholstered furniture may underestimate the tendency of component materials to smolder when these materials are used in sofas and chairs supported by ...
Tags: NIST, Furniture, Tset, smoldering intensity
USDA left the U.S. ending stocks number for soybeans unchanged in its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, deflating hopes of what some market-watchers said could be a bullish jolt for that pit. At the ...
It’s the middle of winter. Icicles glitter from the roofs, white covers the ground. Nothing is further away than the thought of patio furniture. At least that’s what you may think if you’re from the “warm” ...
Tags: Patio Furniture, cold winter, wonderful outdoor experience
Volcanoes spewing Sun-reflecting particles into the atmosphere have partly offset the effects of Man's carbon emissions over a 15-year period that has become a global-warming battleground, researchers said Sunday. A so-called hiatus in ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
In booth #11 F63 at the EuroShop event in Dusseldorf, Germany (16-20 February), Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN, LED AR111 Lamps
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has launched what it claims are the first high correlated color temperature ...
Tags: MR16 LED Lamps, LEDs
Norwegian food manufacturer Fjordland has unveiled the new ConviTray concept ready meal packaging tray in collaboration with Swiss packaging development company Comvince and UK-based Nicholl Food Packaging. ConviTray, which has ovenable ...
Tags: Ready Meal, Packaging
Blackmer is pleased to announce that its XL Series Sliding Vane Pumps have been designed to meet the unique handling characteristics of crude oil that is produced from shale formations. Shale crude is lighter and cleaner than traditional ...
Tags: Pumps, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Sliding Vane Pumps