PPG Industries has announced that company officials expect its previously announced separation of its commodity chemicals business and its merger with a subsidiary of Georgia Gulf Corp. to be completed later today. Upon the completion of ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November 2012 Turkey's ferroalloy imports fell 3.5 percent compared to the previous month, following an almost 15 percent month-on-month increase in October and ...
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Aetna has introduced a new programme to offer individual health insurance plans to Costco members in California, US. Aimed to meet Costco member's needs, the Costco Personal Health Insurance program involves five plans such as broad major ...
Commercial lines writer W R Berkley has established a new underwriting firm, Berkley Southeast Insurance Group, to offer commercial insurance services and expertise in six southeastern states in the US. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the new ...
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Upbeat housing forecasts, including a projected 22-percent increase in single-family housing starts for 2013, made for a giddy International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Our editors and analysts were among the 60,000 or so attendees there ...
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In 2012, Georgia's ferrous scrap exports to Turkey, the country's main trading partner, amounted to 66,936 metric tons, decreasing by 70.2 percent year on year, according to the data provided by the National Statistics Office of Georgia ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in November 2012 Turkey's ferroalloy imports fell 3.5 percent compared to the previous month, following an almost 15 percent month-on-month increase in October and ...
A leading provider of business management solutions and a Microsoft Dynamics Master VAR, Socius, has expanded its national Affiliate network by accepting Driving Force Software, a Microsoft Dynamics GP practice based in Atlanta, Georgia. ...
Pulp and paper company International Paper (IP) has announced plans to shutdown its No 2 paper machine and associated equipment permanently at the Augusta, Georgia mill in the US by the end of February 2013. According to the company, the ...
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Even if you don't live in a part of the country prone to hail, such as the Great Plains and southeastern regions, you already know whether hailstorms pose enough of a threat to influence your choice of roofing. At the International ...
Tags: Concrete Roof Tiles, Construction, Class 4 Hail Resistant Roof Tile
Today marks the conclusion of ProMat 2013, four days of comprehensive problem solving and networking to provide solutions to the complex manufacturing and supply chain challenges faced by industry today. You have seen these challenges ...
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A research group has fabricated what it claims is the world's first LED that emits warm-white light using a single phosphor. A group of researchers at the University of Georgia, together with other collaborators, have developed a new ...
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The parent company of Alltel, a mobile telephone network serving rural customers in six states, has agreed to sell the business to AT&T for about $780 million, Atlantic Tele-Network announced Tuesday. The all-cash transaction will give ...
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Tom Monaghan, standing, a territory sales manager for Dalyn Rug, shows samples to customers in Atlanta. ATLANTA — An aggressive launch of new product generated strong traffic and written business here during the Jan. 10-13 Atlanta ...
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As published in the December 20 issue of Nature, an international consortium of scientists has assembled a 'gold standard' sequence of the simplest cotton variety (Gossypium raimondii) and compared it to 'draft' sequences of three other ...
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