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Recent Features

The Counterfeit Conundrum
Once a product leaves its manufacturer, it enters a world where it can be adultered, completely faked, diluted, relabeled, or repackaged without authorization.

Let There Be (LED) Light
Switching to LED luminaries inside one's distribution facility can lead to reduced energy consumption and operating costs, as well as better performance and less maintenance.

Exports Go Green
Small to medium-sized businesses must understand how to capitalize on foreign demand for clean technology products.

How A Sale Is Won ... Or Lost
The time-with-the-customer approach emphasizes product configuration, pricing, quotation, and proposal development.

To Scrap Or Not To Scrap
Distributors need to emphasize to their customers that both parties have a vested interest in identifying and minimizing nonconforming parts.

Beat Outsourcing's Unwanted Byproducts
A reliance on outsourcing often necessitates a reorganization of one's international supply chain and an evaluation of one's warehouse operations.

New Products

Reduce Air Consumption
Warren Rupp (Mansfield, OH) now offers the AirVantage high-efficient, air-operated, double diaphragm pump. It is designed to reduce energy costs at plants by cutting air consumption at the pump and automatically adjusting as process conditions change to maintain consistent flow without manual operation or adjustment.


Bond, Seal, Coat, And Encapsulate
Master Bond (Hackensack, N.J.) recently introduced the Polymer System EP30D-7 for bonding, sealing, coating and encapsulating applications. According to the company, it is serviceable in temperatures ranging from -100 to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.


Rugged And Reliable
Ridgid (Elyria, OH) unveiled a family of rugged laptops and convertible tablet PCs. The contractor-grade laptops are designed to withstand harsh plant conditions. They are available in four models.


Reel It In
Reelcraft (Columbus City, IN) introduces the stainless steel cord reel for applications where corrosion or sanitation is a concern. Heavy gauge 304L stainless steel provides an excellent finish and superior corrosion resistance.


Sample Air Accurately
Casella USA (Amherst, NH) recently expanded its Apex line of personal air sampling pumps to include the Apex Standard and the Apex Pro I.S. They are designed to undertake personal and area sampling for dusts, fumes, gases and vapors in hazardous areas.