The Iowa state in the US has made it mandatory for state's dairy processors to test all milk received in the state for aflatoxin,a carcinogenic compound which is produced by fungus that grows on grain and peanuts. Aflatoxin can sometimes ...
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FORT WORTH,Texas—Retailer Pier 1 Imports has launched its upgraded website that allows consumers to order merchandise to be delivered to their home or another location of their choosing. The company said the site at www.pier1.com ...
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With housing on the rebound in the United States, the exchange traded fund for lumber, Guggenheim Lumber (NYSE: CUT) is also rising. Jumping too is the exchange traded fund for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO). As the chart below reveals, ...
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KEMP, Texas, Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The WAL-18LED-BP portable and rechargeable LED light tower from Magnalight.com provides the high output of LEDs and the portability of rechargeable battery powered operation in a compact and easily ...
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In their annual results for 2011, coatings producers in Europe have been predicting that 2012 will be much the same overall as last year in terms of growth in sales and profits. There would, nonetheless, be one major difference between the ...
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WILLAMINA — The international markets didn't register a ripple, but on April 9, Arnie Swan drove 25 minutes from his home and reported to work at Boise Cascade's veneer plant. He's a new hire, not a worker called back from one of the ...
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According to a Reuters calculation based on data released by World Steel Association, the daily rate of global crude steel production rose slightly in February 2012 from a month earlier, helped by a seasonal demand pickup in top producer ...
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Are any industry sectors more mobile than utilities? Apart from public transport, delivery services such as UPS and FedEx, and law enforcement, there are no vehicles and workers more visible than ours. Many utility workers can be described ...
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Farmers looking to replace their pickup in the next few months are now in the lucky position of being able to choose between two all-new model ranges. Ford replaced its long-running Ranger pickup earlier this year with a bigger and plusher ...
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Business activity in the U. S. Cooled in January as orders and employment slowed, indicating last quarter’s pickup in growth will not be sustained into 2012. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. Said today its business ...
Manufacturing in the U. S. Grew in January at the fastest pace in seven months, adding to signs of a global pickup from Germany to China. The Institute for Supply Management’s index climbed to 54.1, from 53.1 in December, the Tempe, ...
Recent housing data suggests that 2012 may be the year of turnaround in the housing markets. While a healthy recovery for the markets still seems far away, the prices are now bottoming out. As a result of improving sentiment, the home ...
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Extruders make everything from medical tubing and film and sheet for packaging — Strong markets— To vinyl windows and siding — These days, not so hot. The diversity sums up the North American extruder market in 2011. The ...
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Some of the guidelines that are issued by a city or even state have to do with the building rules which requirement the color in the emergency quit sign. For example, in Annapolis, the law claims that the term EXIT has to be green, even ...
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A rice transplanter is a specialized transplanter fitted to transplant rice seedlings onto paddy field. Although rice is grown in areas other than Asia, rice transplanters are used mainly in East, Southeast, and South Asia. This is because ...