Four thousand cabinets a day. That’s the current output at Armstrong Cabinet Products, a division of Armstrong World Industries. In business since 1860, Armstrong World entered the wood products industry in 1998 following its ...
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Israel-based Highcon has introduced its new Direct-to-Pack solution for folding cartons, which is ideal for converters on look out to extend the digital technology into the finishing process. The digital folding-carton cutting and ...
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Dow Europe GmbH has introduced improved lab-scale equipment providing formulation and testing capabilities at the Performance Plastics Innovation Centre at its European headquarters in Horgen, Switzerland. Dow adds that this comes as a ...
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Weyerhaeuser will soon produce JAS-certified OSB material for export to Japan. OSB (oriented strand board) panels are used in both residential and commercial construction in Japan, as wall and roof sheathing and as structural flooring ...
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Teknor Apex, one of the world's largest compounders of flexible PVC, is actively developing a PVC-free alternative for medical applications and already reports a handful of commercial applications in smaller sizes. Replacing PVC in medical ...
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Bayer MaterialScience has begun construction of a multipurpose production plant for polyurethane coating raw materials at Chempark Leverkusen. The products hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) are used ...
Wood plastic composite is a new class of composite materials in recent years. It is made of by using of polyethylene, polypropylene and polyvinyl chloride, etc. to replace the usual resin adhesive, mixed with 35% -70% of wood power, rice ...
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Beautiful marble floor tile down is in its natural finish blending of the earth's color is rich brown rusts and grey makes it a great choice for the supplement, but most sealing tumbled marble tile thorough application of seal the choice of ...
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With rising living standards, housing, purchasing power is growing. People in the purchase and renovation of housing, the pursuit of high-grade decorative material has become a new fashion. In many materials, the use of stone is more ...
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With winter coming up, the house is about to plunge into a deep freeze. What often cools down many houses are drafty doors and windows. The space between the wood doors and the floor are the perfect opportunity to chill the home, meaning ...
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UPM Raflatac, part of UPM's engineered materials business group has announced the launch of its new RH09 hot melt adhesive label for the Americas market, developed to meet the demand for food packaging labeling. The Finnish supplier of ...
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Window seals prevent the unwanted exchange of air and moisture across the window's threshold. When the seals fail, the temperature inside of a structure will change. This change is the result of the interior temperature leveling out to that ...
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One of the most common methods of film manufacture is Blown Film (also referred to as the Tubular Film) Extrusion. The process involves extrusion of a plastic through a circular die, followed by "bubble-like" expansion. The principal ...
In my web surfing for the next blog post, I came across this interesting Apartment Therapy article that quickly caught my eye. How neat and funky is this toilet paper holder? I've never seen anything like it so I knew this was something I ...
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Blown-film Extrusion can be defined as a process for forming Plastic films. The Blown-film extrusion involves a molten resin extruded through a circular die and filling the tube with air. The air within the tube stretches the film to obtain ...