Vinyl flooring is ubiquitous. The stuff is found everywhere, and is the standard installation in a high percentage of U.S. homes. Do-it-yourself home-improvement stores are stacked top-to-bottom with vinyl flooring products. There’s ...
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Want a Green Do-It-Yourself Floor? A "floating floor" sounds like Staying Alive meets Star Trek, but is nothing space age or related to disco. It simply refers to the fact that this type of floor is not nailed, stapled, or glued down but ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has removed Bisphenol A, or BPA, from its list of Proposition 65 toxic chemicals. The move came following an April 18 preliminary injunction to delist the ...
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Controlling solar heat gain in buildings is an ongoing challenge for design professionals, but a new PVB interlayer from Eastman Chemical Company, called Saflex® SG, offers significant advantages for those designing projects in hot ...
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Natural materials Directly "burning" images on wood were some of the first uses of engraving lasers. The laser power required here is often less than 10 watts depending on the laser being used as most are different. Hardwoods like walnut, ...
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Industrial laminate specialist Attwater has found a new use for peel ply to facilitate easier bonding with phenolic cotton laminates. The new development, created in Attwater’s in-house product laboratory, extends an existing ...
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The paper company and the producer of speciality high performance Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) and Cellulose films have combined, claiming that they can offer the packaging industry an "alternative, combining traditional ...
Desks have always been amongst the popular and essential office, as well as home, furniture items. A simple desk can be used in various ways. Desks are undoubtedly amongst the most versatile pieces of furniture that you can get in your ...
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The attractive new façade covering the four towers at Sowwah Square in the heart of Abu Dhabi’s new Central Business District (CBD) provides another stunning example of the functional and structural capabilities of ...
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Bulletproof glass (also known as ballistic glass, transparent armor or bullet-resistant glass) is a type of strong but optically transparent material that is particularly resistant to being penetrated when struck by bullets, but like all ...
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Global pressure sensitive labelstock supplier UPM Raflatac has unveiled two adhesive upgrades in a bid to continue advances in migration safeguards in line with the EU 10/2011 regulation. According to the company, the regulation places ...
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Pressure sensitive label materials supplier UPM Raflatac has announced the launch of two adhesive upgrades which are designed to prevent the substance migration from packaging components into food. The company noted that the launch is in ...
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Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), the leading global producer of glass fiber reinforcements for composite systems, today formally announced its inclusion in a strategic alliance with BASF and TenCate Advanced Composites. The goal of the alliance is ...
The week of the Salone del Mobile in Milan has arrived. The global economic times is incredible. Signs of recovery are seen now, especially in an industry, the furniture, which did not suffer much time as much as others, see what ...
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St. Paul, Minn.– 3M introduces a new, revolutionary alternative to solvent based adhesives: 3M Fast Tack Water Based Adhesive 1000NF. While many adhesive users have been underwhelmed with water based products in the past, 3M Fast Tack ...
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