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Shifting demand and consumer preferences — like the demand for sustainable materials and reduced construction waste — are having a major impact on how construction firms approach new work, including the materials they choose for projects. The building materials industry,...

The goal of any vehicle scale service program should be to ensure that equipment stays in working order, with minimal downtime between service visits or the life of the product. The losses to revenue due to a scale failure...

Prefabrication is changing the current paradigm in the construction and building industry. Modular, factory-constructed built environments can be produced significantly faster, more economically and often safer than traditional field construction. Indeed, a report from industry advisory group McKinsey &...

After working on his own as an independent healthcare insurance broker for several years, Ryan recently took a job with a bigger brokerage. When he broke the news to his wife that the company he joined did not offer...

Integrated Rupture Disk Assemblies for Oil and Gas Hydraulic & Pneumatic Equipment Custom engineered, miniature rupture disk assemblies designed for high cycling at low to high pressure are ideal for many oil and gas OEM applications involving hydraulics and gasses. For decades,...

Within my first 6 years in the US Army, I had been a member of four different Battalions (around 700 soldiers organized into four sub units), been a member of two combat arms branches, evaluated leaders from six different...

For many applications, industrial gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, CO2 and others are delivered in steel cylinders at pressures of 2,000-2,600 PSI.  If the gas is used below the supply pressure, the pressurized supply can be piped and...

Successful people all do one thing: they solve problems. They don't just stare at a problem and wish it would go away. The magic key to solving your big, difficult, looming business problems is to break them down into smaller...

When chemical processors including those creating plastic, polymer or rubber products utilize batch reactors, following the recipe from batch-to-batch and plant-to-plant is critical to reliably and cost-effectively manufacture high value-added materials to spec. This typically involves charging the reactor,...

The forging industry has achieved an impressive place in the North American industrial economy by producing components with unique benefits that are difficult to duplicate. Forging, a manufacturing process of shaping metal by applying a variety of powerful compressive forces...