Thomson Super Smart Ball Bushing Linear bearings, already available in U.S. Inch and European Metric models, are now available in Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) sizes. This advanced bearing technology provides up to six times the load ...
If you’re thinking about hardwood but want a DIY installation, consider a Lock&Fold floor. Armstrong’s Midtown Hardwood product line offers the beauty of hardwood in an engineered structure, which allows it to be installed on ...
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Bike suppliers continue to put on the brakes, cutting bike imports 15 percent over the first half of the year. Though the slowdown is mostly imports of mass-market kid's bikes, 26-inch imports also are down 9 percent. Bike builders in China ...
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The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently released an interactive video that offers guidance about selecting and installing LED lighting. The video was designed for contractors, builders, electricians, ...
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A total of 247 metropolitan areas across 49 states and the District of Columbia qualified for inclusion on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) for August, released recently. While this is ...
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Members of the Building Systems Council (BSC) of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) are celebrating National Building Systems Week, which runs Aug. 4 - 10, by offering model home tours, demonstrations and much more. This ...
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With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
CEMENT, as a building material, is old. The earliest forms of cement were used by the Egyptians and the Romans thousands of years ago. Techniques for making cement that eventually led to modern cement-making were first developed by French ...
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Rising mortgage rates are showing no sign of derailing new-home sales. Single-family new-home sales rose 8.3 percent in June to the highest level since May 2008, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. What's more, they were up 38.1 ...
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Machine guarding is all about preventing dangers and accidents that might otherwise happen - and with dire consequences. So, throughout this article we will go over some measures that a successful machine guarding policy will implement when ...
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Congratulations, youâEUR(TM)ve decided to take a big step towards building your dream home! Before jumping in to the sometimes complicated process of building, looking for the best house builder to make your ideas become reality is ...
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Since the beginning of this year, SINOTRUK who provides Euro Ⅴ compliant heavy trucks has been maintaining a steady growth rate in exports. Up to now, the company has got orders accumulating more than 140,000 units, leading ahead of ...
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Major infrastructure projects and extensive plans to galvanise residential construction have fuelled demand for building materials in Saudi Arabia, prompting the government to intervene in the cement market for the second time in as many ...
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At the beginning of this year, 84 Lumber Company launched "We Build American," a well thought-out movement focused to persuade builders, remodelers and homebuyers to use American-made materials when building or remodeling their homes. Since ...
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Compared to the 2010-2011 two-year period, the drop in demand from the European continent seems to have turned around and the EU is once again the number one purchaser of Italian glass processing machines, accessories, and special products, ...
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