Did You Know? Improperly sanding a hardwood floor can pose a fire risk. Moreover, bags containing dust from the sanding operation should be disposed immediately, as they can spontaneously catch fire.A sander is an electric device that ...
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Did You Know?Linoleum was discovered in 1855 by Englishman Frederick Walton who thought of it as an alternative to the expensive India rubber.If your home space is a center to juice spills, skateboard activities, pets, damp footwear, and a ...
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Murata Electronics North America Inc (a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan) and Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA have celebrated the closing of Murata’s acquisition of Peregrine. To ...
Retaining walls built of stone or brick are the traditional style and usually blend nicely into their surrounding landscape. The question is, though: are these really the best materials for the job today? The purpose of a retaining wall in ...
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UK based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will invest around £2.3m in an effort to transform its present Lunsford Road facility into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The announcement for the conversion follows another announcement of ...
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Leicester-based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will be investing around £2.3m to convert its current Lunsford Road site into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The company made this announcement after its September announcement of ...
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New York-based investment company Gramercy Property Trust has acquired Alpha Packaging’s 211,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Overland, Missouri, for $11m. The property in the St. Louis County, which serves as ...
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China's economy will enter a new phase, as innovation becomes a personal pursuit for entrepreneurial success. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, China's absolute input in research and development was ...
Riddell, Inc. today filed a lawsuit against Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., claiming Rawlings has infringed on four different patents arising from Riddell’s helmet and shoulder pad technologies. The four-count federal court ...
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RPM International Inc. reported a 10 percent increase in net income and an 8 percent increase in earnings per diluted share on flat sales for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended November 30, 2014. Second-Quarter Results Net sales of ...
China's annual economic growth likely slowed to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, a Reuters poll showed, which would keep pressure on policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year. ...
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Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which provides compound semiconductor-based optical components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics market, has completed the sale of its tunable laser and transceiver ...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Gerber Legendary Blades, a division of Fiskars Brands Inc., of Madison, Wis., has agreed to pay a $2.6 million civil penalty and abide by a permanent injunction. In a ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of Arkansas announced that the city of Fort Smith, Ark. will upgrade its sewer collection and treatment system over the next 12 years to reduce ...
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The City of Newburgh, US is set to partner and support the growth and expansion of garment industry by providing affordable manufacturing space, workforce, and technological needs for the sector. The City recently partnered with The Solar ...
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