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 This issue's cover
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Getting the
Knaack
Knaack’s “flying” Monster Box line takes jobsite security, mobility
and productivity to the top floor and back again with ease...
Editorial
Monstrous developments
Today’s
Headlines
PT/MC sales
experience slight retraction according to PTDA's July 2008 Market Outlook Report
Data
The Power Transmission Distributors Association (PTDA) released July 2008
month-end trend data for distributors and manufacturers of power
transmission/motion control (PT/MC) products...
Atlas Copco opens
Compressor DC for North America
Atlas Copco Compressors LLC has opened a new distribution center in Rock Hill,
S.C...
ITC Judge finds
violations of Pass & Seymour’s GFCI patent rights
Sept. 25, 2008 — Pass & Seymour/Legrand announced today that a U.S.
International Trade Commission judge ruled that a number of Chinese
manufacturers of ground fault circuit interrupters have violated P&S’s patent
rights...
Danfoss
announces major expansion in Illinois
Danfoss is doubling its Loves Park, IL, facility that produces variable
frequency drives, adding both production and office space...
Parker's Hose
Products Division offers new quick reference guide to simplify the selection
process
Parker Hannifin Corporation has released a new Hose Products Division Quick
Reference Guide to help customers make the right product connection in the least
time...
UMass Lowell opens new
BioManufacturing Pilot Plant
Corporate partners donate $600,000 in equipment to speed ideas into
production...
More industry news
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Fabtech is coming, are you registered?
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New SME DVD reveals how poka-yoke lean process can
help your shop
eliminate mistakes
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DuPont Building Innovations announces price increases
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Castrol Industrial saddened by loss
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NAED and NAW launch health insurance program
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Viega hosts John Siegenthaler in a Fall hydronics seminar
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Corporate Express Canada switches from paper to voice-directed
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Totally tubular
Tubular membranes handle extremely difficult oily wastewater at
Metaldyne...
Oil spill tests
all-terrain vacuum system
Spurred by challenges of responding to spills in Alaska, Elastec/American
Marine has developed an innovative vacuum system that can be towed
by all-terrain vehicles...
Safety
When forklifts and
structures collide
This article discusses the type of collisions that can actually be
far more common in many plants — the collision of lift trucks (and
their drivers) with physical structures in a plant or warehouse....
Uptime
Lift equipment
deserves attention
You can expect decades of service from well-maintained lifts, hoists
and cranes, but when it’s time to replace them, new features make
operation and maintenance easier...
Connecting with aluminum
Copper is the natural first choice
for electrical connections, but there are times when aluminum can be
better...
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