AHEC collaborates with Alison Brooks Architects and Arup for 2016 London Design Festival The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), the leading international trade association for the American hardwood industry, has announced its ...
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Many products, like cigarettes and medications, are stamped with warning labels alerting consumers to their risks. Common sense suggests these warnings will encourage safer choices. But now Dr. Yael Steinhart of Tel Aviv University's ...
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The UK Timber Frame Association of Alloa, Scotland, cStructural Timber Association (STA) since late September. The appropriate plans had already been announced in May. STA says the new name reflects the increasing diversification in its ...
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Despite stronger-than-expected growth during the fourth quarter, 2012 was still a miserable year for the semiconductor market and suppliers, with only eight out of the Top 25 chipmakers managing to eke out revenue growth—but nine ...
Starting from April 2013, the Metsa Group will handle sales of Kerto, Finnjoist I-beams, Leno CLT and products for timber frame construction in Denmark via its own sales and marketing team. The company will take over five employees of its ...
Efforts to attract younger workers to manufacturing and industrial fields have taken another step forward with the recent announcement from the The National College Credit Recommendation Service. NCCRS has recommended that postsecondary ...
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New CTO,Asian distributors,licensing agreement and first"LightEngine"sale make it a busy month for Berlin direct diode laser developer. Direct Photonics is focused on the development of ultra-high brightness direct-diode lasers.August ...
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Timber build specialist B&K Structures has supplied cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels for the construction of a London school gym and three classroom blocks. The modernisation work at Preston Manor School was undertaken by Kier ...
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THE construction industry will be able to count on the supply of plantation softwood timber increasing by about 27 per cent over the next 20-30 years. But the volume of plantation hardwood for similar and higher value use will lag far ...
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A new generation of highrise commercial and institutional wood buildings are planned for B. C. In the next couple of years. The buildings will feature engineered wood products, such as cross laminated timber (CLT), laminated veneer lumber ...
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ELEANOR HALL: Let's hear now from the South Australian academic who is proposing a radical rethink of building construction in Australia in order to reduce the country's carbon footprint. Professor Steffen Lehmann proposes that instead of ...
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