Degussa Wall Systems announced that it plans to significantly expand operations at its Lancaster, Texas, manufacturing site. The expansion will include the addition of a new, fully equipped, 65,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, bringing the total manufacturing area at the site to 100,000 square feet.
A new publication from ASTM International, "STP 1463, Advances in Adhesives, Adhesion Science, and Testing," includes 11 peer-reviewed papers that focus on new adhesives, particularly from the perspective of the newer test methods emerging to better determine adhesive reliability.
United Rentals Inc. announced that it has purchased the trench safety rentals and sales assets of Sandvick Equipment & Supply Co., with headquarters in Phoenix. Sandvick has a total of six locations in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas.
George Surrency, 61, owner of Contractors Equipment & Supplies LLC, died November 21, 2005, at his residence. Surrency is known as the inventor of the Sunspray fireproofing hydraulic pump system. Before opening Sun Construction in 1983, he was a long time district sales manager for Essick.
The Steel Network announces the release of the first ICC-Evaluation Service Report specifically for light steel framing vertical deflection clips, ICC-ESR-1903.
Georgia-Pacific Corp. and Koch Industries Inc. announced they have reached a definitive agreement for Koch Forest Products Inc., a wholly owned Koch subsidiary, to make a $48 per share cash tender offer for all shares of Georgia-Pacific. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of Georgia-Pacific and Koch.
BASF announced that its green demonstration home, The BASF Better Home Better Planet: Near Zero Energy Home-Paterson, N.J., has been selected by the U.S. Green Building Council's pilot testing for the recently launched Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Homes (LEED-H) rating system.
A report released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Investigation of the Impact of Commercial Building Envelope Airtightness on HVAC Energy Use, confirms that continuous air barrier systems can reduce air leakage by up to 83 percent and energy consumption by up to 40 percent.
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