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HEADNOTE Expert insights into hot-metal crane design, maintenance, and applications in a foundry operation. For metalcasters, advances in technology and engineering standards may be difficult to counter as staffs grow smaller and expertise gets more scarce. But, for melting and other applications, foundries need effective and reliable cranes. We found ......

A new standard for assessing the environmental-friendliness of carpet has been approved by the American National Standards Institute. It addresses chemicals and materials used in manufacturing carpet, the energy used in production, the use of recycled or bio-based content, methods of disposal or reuse and the overall environmental performance of ......

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Assn. (BIFMA) announced formal American National Standard Institute (ANSI) approval and release of the following two standards for volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from office furniture: ANSI/BIFMA M7.1-2007--Standard Test Method for Determining VOC Emissions from Office Furniture Systems, Components ......

Material Handling Market Study Coming Soon RIA's industry statistics show that material handling applications are on the rise. To help suppliers and integrators tap into the opportunities surrounding this growing market, RIA has commissioned a market study focused exclusively on material handling applications. The new study will focus heavily on ......

International Steel Casting Specs Being Set By 1992, the European Community will be a monolithic market of 320 million consumers. Euronorm Standards are being established, and will include criteria for steel castings. The member states of the European Community (EC) have committed to an ambitious program to create by 1992 ......

(ISC)2 Credential Program Receives Fourth ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 Accreditation, Leading Industry in Meeting National and Global Standards for Certification PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- (ISC)2[R]("ISC-squared"), the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, today announced that a fourth information security credential has been recognized for meeting ......

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The full IOM press release and the response issued by CMS Administrator McLelland are posted here: Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year, says a new report issued today from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The ......