(CBS) --- Around your house you may see numerous items made of tempered glass, including your oven door, television stand, shower door and patio table. The lack of mandatory manufacturing standards for this type of glass could put you at ...
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The University of Otago is auditing the safety of architectural glass sheets in some of its more than 200 buildings as it faces problems with spontaneously shattering glass, including an incident in the week before Christmas. The audit ...
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Tempered glass can become cloudy or scratched and may need to be polished. It’s something that’s easy to do and doesn’t require any special equipment. In fact, you should generally steer clear of special equipment for this ...
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After a slew of falling glass on Toronto streets last summer, the Ontario government is strengthening its building code surrounding balcony glass for newly constructed buildings. At least 13 glass balcony panes exploded in downtown ...
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Say goodbye to that annoying buzz created by overhead fluorescent light bulbs in your office or residence hall. Wake Forest scientists have developed a flicker-free, shatterproof alternative for large-scale lighting. The lighting, based ...
A voluntary recall on certain model year 2012 Hyundai Veloster vehicles has been issued through the National Highway Safety Administration(NHTSA).According to the recall,the panoramic sunroof assembly is in question for possible weakening ...
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Misleading statements and fiction about toy safety are often communicated to the general public. The public must have access to the facts, so that they can make informed decisions about purchasing safe toys for their children. We want to ...
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For those with a taste for the best in life, the Ritz, Hilton and Malmaison are probably among the hotel brands of choice. But now a new entrant is hoping to shake things up – the NHS. And officials say it will shatter preconceptions ...
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UK-based food packaging solutions firm Nicholl Food Packaging has revamped its range of aluminum foil trays for the fresh and convenience food sector with five new smoothwall variants. Smoothwall trays feature a smooth rim, so that trays ...
Tags: Trays, Smoothwall Line of Trays, food packaging solutions
The lighting, based on field-induced polymer electroluminescent (FIPEL) technology, also gives off soft, white light – not the yellowish glint from fluorescents or bluish tinge from LEDs. "People often complain that fluorescent ...
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A Melbourne-based apartment complex billed as the most prestigious in the city has suffered persistent problems as faulty glass has detracted from sought-after views and balcony panels have been known to randomly shatter,a newspaper report ...
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The last of the discount Halloween candy is being put away and stores and customers are getting ready for the holidays. There are many holiday light options and it may get a little confusing. You have the large C9 and C7 bulbs, ...
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Shock-resistance is the great benefit of safety glass. However, the cut of the glass pane can make this difficult: With conventional processes, only straight cuts are possible. Yet a newly-developed method makes it possible to apply any ...
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Shock-resistance is the great benefit of safety glass. However, the cut of the glass pane can make this difficult: With conventional processes, only straight cuts are possible. Yet a newly-developed method makes it possible to apply any ...
Tags: market view, Safety glass
CHICAGO(CBS)–If your shower door is made of glass,you may endure injuries,a big clean up and thousands of dollars down the drain. CBS 2′s Dave Savini first exposed tempered-glass patio tables suddenly exploding.Now he found ...
Tags: Glass Shower Doors, Shatter, Explod