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Pasadena Corporate Center Chooses Direct-Fired Absorption
Advanced absorption chillers have replaced 30-year-old machines at a Pasadena office complex, improving efficiency and reliability at all load levels. In the process, the chiller replacement also extends the life of an existing centrifugal chiller plant in an adjacent building. In reviewing the 251 South Lake building during the acquisition...
Major Chiller Replacement Project Completed Over Three Day Weekend
Detailed planning and a tight project team were the keys to a major chiller plant replacement in a 320,000 square foot commercial office building over a holiday weekend. Crocker's investigation of the building prior to acquisition revealed shortcomings in the HVAC system. The major system components were two 400-ton centrifugal...
Attention to Detail Pays Off Refrigerant Management Key in Effective Asset Management
The corporate audit process is a mirror of the Hines corporate philosophy. The property manager or chief engineer alone can't speak for the building, but instead must list three operating engineers who have the expertise to speak on a given topic. Hines requires its property managers and chief engineers to...
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CSA International signs agreement with VDE to provide testing services for European market
CLEVELAND, OH, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- CSA International, a leading certification and testing organization, today announced that it has signed a reciprocal product testing agreement to provide testing services in North America and Asia, on behalf of VDE, for products destined for European markets. A similar reciprocal agreement allows...
WABCO Wins Top Supplier Award for Commercial Excellence From Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Brazil
BRUSSELS and SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. today announced that WABCO has been honored with a supplier award for "Commercial Excellence 2007" by Volkswagen VW Commercial Vehicles in Brazil where VW's global headquarters for its truck and bus division are...
Boomer Retirement Trends
Long Term Projected Rise in Healthcare, Gas Prices and Cost of Living Have Boomers Looking Abroad for Retirement LOS ANGELES -- An ever-increasing rise in the cost of living has Boomers concerned about life after work. In search of affordable healthcare, reasonable gas prices, and...
InBev to File Consent Solicitation Statement to Provide Anheuser-Busch Shareholders a Direct Voice in Proposed Combination at $65 per Share
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InBev (Euronext: INB) announced that it will file later today a preliminary consent solicitation statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to remove each member of the board of directors of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. and provide...
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Sign With Ted Kurland Associates Booking Agency for Worldwide Representation After Sold-out Tour
LOS ANGELES, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary trumpet player Herb Alpert and his wife, internationally renowned GRAMMY-winning singer Lani Hall, have signed with the Boston, MA-based booking agency Ted Kurland Associates TKA for worldwide representation. TKA will exclusively represent Alpert and Hall both for their performances...
AeroGrow Announces New Board Members
AeroGrow International, Inc. (NASDAQ: AERO)("AeroGrow" or the "Company"), makers of the AeroGarden® line of indoorgardening products, announced that it has appointed four new members to itsBoard of Directors, Linda Graebner, Peter Michel, Suresh Kumar and MichaelDingman, Jr., bringing significant additional depth and breadth ofexperience to its Board. Linda...
Scissor lifts
Lauderdale-Hamilton Inc. The new extra-Long scissor lift, from Lauderdale-Hamilton Inc., measures 30 in. by 50 ft and has a 12,000-lb capacity. The Lift is specially designed to ensure uniform Lifting, and is simply built with American standard components, the company says. Additionally, custom engineering is available. ...
Case Construction Equipment
Case Construction Equipment announced the approval of B20 biodiesel blend for use in more than 85% of its construction equipment. The biodiesel approved for use must comply with the North American Standard ASTM D6751, said the company. "Biodiesel should be purchased from a trusted supplier who understands the product and...
WABCO Earns Top Quality Award from KAMAZ, Russia's Largest Manufacturer of Commercial Vehicles
BRUSSELS and MOSCOW, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. today announced that WABCO (http://www.wabco-auto.com/) was named "Best Supplier 2007" by KAMAZ, the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in the Russian Federation. The only non-Russian supplier to be awarded, WABCO provided consistently outstanding levels of...
Blood money
IoS Investigation: Mugabe's investors The MPs cashing in on Zimbabwe's misery Cameron faces hypocrisy charge Tory frontbenchers are among those with shares in companies accused of propping up the violent - and now illegal...
High Growth Reported for the World HVAC Equipment Market
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Industrial equipment industry is available in its catalogue. World HVAC Equipment Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p090370/World-HVAC-Equipment-Market.html HVAC equipment demand worldwide to increase 5% annually through 2010 World demand for HVAC equipment is projected to rise over...
Ultra-Wideband : Technology, Applications, and Solutions
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ab149b/ultrawideband_uw has announced the addition of the "Ultra-wideband UWB: Technology, Applications, and Solutions" report to their offering. Ultra-wideband UWB technology offers a promising solution to the RF spectrum drought by allowing new services to coexist with current radio systems...
Case Approves Use of B20 Biodiesel Blends for Construction Equipment
Case Construction Equipment announced it hasapproved the use of B20 blends (20 percent biodiesel and 80 percentpetroleum diesel) for more than 85 percent of its construction equipment.In June 2006, Case became the first construction equipment manufacturer toapprove the use of B5 blends. "Case is proudly leading the construction...
Ingersoll-Rand finishes Trane acquisition deal
Ingersoll-Rand Co. completed its acquisition Thursday of Trane Inc. after Trane shareholders approved the sale at a special morning meeting at headquarters in Piscataway, NJ. Ingersoll-Rand, based in Bermuda, said holders of Trane's approximately 200 million common shares will receive a combination of $36.50 in cash and 0.23...
Imported lumber
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] American Lumber Co. Booth #1601 The American Lumber Co. announces it is now delivering imported hardwood Lumber to customers throughout North America. American Lumber says stringent guidelines already applied to American standard and proprietary grades are now being applied...
WABCO Directors Approve Cash Dividend
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. , announced today that its board of directors has approved a cash dividend of 7 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on June 20, 2008, to shareholders of record on June 3, 2008. ...
Wooowork career alliance calls for contributors
RESTON, VA -- The Architectural Woodwork Institute has volunteered and been selected as the secretariat for an industry-wide alliance devoted to developing and setting skill standards for woodworkers Volunteers are writing the unified North American Standard of Tool Skills & Evaluations from all parts of the advanced wood...
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