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The First Quarter Analysis on The Import & Export of China's Construction Machinery in 2010
September.15.2010

According to Customs statistics, in the first quarter of 2010 China’s import and export trade sum of construction machinery is US$ 3.76 billion, up 27.5% over the previous year. Of this total, the value of imports is US$ 1.77 billion, increasing 62.3%; export value of 1.99 billion, up 6.8%, and trade surplus is US$ 220 million, down US$ 550 million.

From Jan to Mar of 2010, import volume of whole cip machine is 1.12 billion, increasing 72.3% than last year, accounting for 63.3% of total imports; parts import is 650 million, up 46.6%, and 36.7% of total imports. Of this total, crawler excavators pvc fitting imported 8,872 units, up 165% over the previous year, and accounting for nearly 60% of whole machine imports, which is an increase of 22 percentage points higher than previous year. Besides, some slitting machine products show good increase in bag making machine imports, such as high-powered bulldozers, graders, asphalt pavers, all terrain cranes, tower cranes, forklifts, pneumatic tools and spare parts.

As for machinery export, the volume of whole machine is 1.27 billion, up 4.1% over the previous year, accounting for 64% of total plastic valve exports; parts export is 720 million, up 11.5%, with a share of 36%. Exports continued to grow slightly in March, in which warmer faster products include loaders, road rollers, excavators, tower cranes, forklifts, tractors, engineering drills, concrete mixers, rock drills, pneumatic tools and spare parts.

In the first quarter, construction machinery imports and exports show three features. First, machines imports growth is far more than exports. Total trade surplus becomes narrow, there is even a month deficit in March, which is the first time since January 2006 totally 51 months; Second, imports of whole construction machinery increase substantially, holding a share of more than 60% of total imports, especially for track excavator (mainly second hand), the import appears blowout again, which is an impact on the domestic blow molding machine brands, causing strong reactions in the industry field; Third, the worldwide market is lack of effective blow molding machine demand, the rebound in exports get along slow and poor regularity, which indicates the market still exist unstabilizing factors.

Above provided by SelectChina.com, and find more information on China Machinery News/ China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products.

Quality-first Is The Proper Trend for China's Bearing Industry
September.06.2010

Industry insider said, our cip bearing order price is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, therefore our export price is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings, such as skf, nsk, and timken bearings. Such low-price is easily involved in the trouble from foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers.

China is now seizing the chance of strategic opportunity, by ways of implementing the scientific concept of development, promoting self-innovation, adjusting industrial frame and transforming the growth mode. But unfortunately under this environment, our bearing industry occurred some vicious, disorderly blow molding machine price competition, which make the situation worried.

This folly status caused not only the barrier for their own progress, also make against to the development of the whole industry, brings serious consequences along. In this case, concerns from business plastic valve colleagues are important for curbing the disorderly price competition, thus to promote the bearing industry developing towards the harmonious way of co-innovation and high-quality production.

The current hard situation is: 1. Export prices have been self-deprecating to 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price.

Bearing import and export unit packing machine requires that our offer can not be higher than 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price, otherwise cannot get the export contracts. Even if the country return 12% to the export enterprises, the export tax rebates for mechanical and electrical slitting machine products is 13%, it only has 72% of the tax-inclusive price, and the non-tax price is only 66%-68% when reduce 4%-6% of the value-added tax.

Our bearing pricing is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, be regarded as the export price of bearings is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings (for example, sk, nsk, timken bearings, which attracted foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers repeatedly.

According to the statistics of China's bearing industry, the profit margin often maintained at between 3% -5%, while for such low pvc fitting export prices, it must has a number of domestic sells to fill it.

The state introduced market economy system since reforming and opening policy carried out, and bearing products came into the competing market quickly. The industry has organized the conveyor industry leading companies to draw the directories of the price compilation every 2-5 years. In the initial the exporter could implemented the rules, but after 90s’, in order to seize the market, from companies involved in setting prices to the general implementation of the bearings business all have taken measures to decrease the price, less in 30%-40%, more in 30%-40%. Some large listed enterprises even went so far out of hard blow to their competitors by using the abundant capital from shareholders.

Above provided by SelectChina.com, and find more information on China Machinery News/ China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products.

Now China Auto Market Has Become A Booming Land for Many Iron and Steel Enterprises to Invest
August 19, 2010

On June 4th, the ground-breaking ceremony of Yantai Baogang Wheel Company was held in the Industrial Park of Yantai Auto Parts in Shandong, the investment of the first phase is 140 million yuan and the wheels annual output will be 1.25 million, which will eventually form the capacity of producing steel wheels that used for 3 million passenger cars and 500 thousand commercial vehicles.

On June 21st, the State-owned Assets Car Parts Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of Hebei Province entrusted Hebei Iron and Steel Group with 100% of the state-owned packing machine stock share of Xuangong Machinery, which was held by Hebei State-owned Assets Holding Operation Co., Ltd, and it is China's major slitting machine manufacture enterprise in the construction machinery industry.

The shock absorber factory of Beijing Steel's Jingxi Heavy Industry Co., Ltd was completed in Fang Shan base and began to install the equipment on June 27th, in the first engineering machiney phase the investment is 2 billion yuan and there will be 4 million shock absorbers produced a year. This plant Blow molding machine will supply the shock absorbers to Geely, Beijing Foton and other domestic automobile manufacturers.

At the same time, Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation also announced to enter into auto parts construction machiney industry, and it will build a auto parts production base joint with Chery Automobile, which machines is expected to put into production in 2011.

Investors machine are far more than domestic iron and steel enterprises.

On May Japan Steel Shoji Co., Ltd, a trading comany under Japan Steel Corporation, prepared actively to enter into China's auto parts market, and 1.5 billion yen is prepared to invest in Shanghai for processing auto parts.

Above provided by SelectChina.com , and find more information on China Machinery News / China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products .

Quality-first Is The Proper Trend for China's Bearing Industry
August 17, 2010

Industry insider said, our cip bearing order price is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, therefore our export price is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings, such as skf, nsk, and timken bearings. Such low-price is easily involved in the trouble from foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers.

China is now seizing the chance of strategic opportunity, by ways of implementing the scientific concept of development, promoting self-innovation, adjusting industrial frame and transforming the growth mode. But unfortunately under this environment, our bearing industry occurred some vicious, disorderly blow molding machine price competition, which make the situation worried.

This folly status caused not only the barrier for their own progress, also make against to the development of the whole industry, brings serious consequences along. In this case, concerns from business colleagues are important for curbing the disorderly price competition, thus to promote the bearing industry developing towards the harmonious way of co-innovation and high-quality production.

The current hard situation is: 1. Export prices have been self-deprecating to 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price.

Bearing import and export unit packing machine requires that our offer can not be higher than 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price, otherwise cannot get the export contracts. Even if the country return 12% to the export enterprises, the export tax rebates for mechanical and electrical slitting machine products is 13%, it only has 72% of the tax-inclusive price, and the non-tax price is only 66%-68% when reduce 4%-6% of the value-added tax.

Our bearing pricing is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, be regarded as the export price of bearings is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings (for example, sk, nsk, timken bearings, Famen Bearing www.b2bearing.com Chuanda Conveyor www.sellconveyorbelt.com ), which attracted foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers repeatedly.

According to the statistics of China's bearing industry, the profit margin often maintained at between 3% -5%, while for such low export prices, it must has a number of domestic sells to fill it.

The state introduced market economy system since reforming and opening policy carried out, and bearing products came into the competing market quickly. The industry has organized the industry leading companies to draw the directories of the price compilation every 2-5 years. In the initial the exporter could implemented the rules, but after 90s', in order to seize the market, from companies involved in setting prices to the general implementation of the bearings business all have taken measures to decrease the price, less in 30%-40%, more in 30%-40%. Some large listed enterprises even went so far out of hard blow to their competitors by using the abundant capital from shareholders.

Above provided by SelectChina.com , and find more information on China Machinery News / China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products .

Blown head gasket causes bike-pack case adjournment

A driver involved in an accident with a pack of 50 elite cyclists, including three Olympians, has failed to appear in Waverley Court today, citing mechanical problems with his vehicle. Bakr Hassan, 34, of Claymore, was due to face court today charged over the May 8 incident at Mascot, which involved Olympic cyclists Ben Kersten, Michelle Ferris and Kate Nichols. Hassan was charged by police with having between 6am and 6.15am on Southern Cross Drive at Mascot, failed to give his required particulars, At the time of the crash Kersten was among fifty elite riders on an early morning training run when a Ford Falcon sedan, allegedly driven by Hassan, stalled in a lane close to the group, causing a pile-up among riders. No one was seriously injured in the incident.

But when the matter came before magistrate Christopher Longley, police told the court Hassan was unable to attend due to a mechanical problem with his vehicle. Mr Longley was then handed a note from court staff which said Hassan had phoned seeking an adjournment in his hearing because of problems with his vehicle.
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Head Case - Tuner Tech

Unraveling The Mystery Of Leaking Head Gaskets And How To Solve The Problem. If you are about to replace a leaking head gasket, you may wonder why you almost never see oil or coolant leaking from the gaskets on newer vehicles, even those with plenty of miles on them. After all, that used to make detection of a failed gasket much simpler. You may also be asking yourself what you can do to avoid head gasket problems in the future. Well, it just so happens Bill McKnight has the answers. He's Director of Training for Victor Reinz - the world's largest supplier of head gaskets, a leading supplier of gaskets to European car makers and a supplier of gaskets to the replacement market.

McKnight tells us all OEM head gaskets installed on modern vehicles are multi-layer steel (MLS) construction. They feature the same elements as the MLS gaskets installed on virtually all vehicles in the '90s, but unlike today's MLS gaskets, those early ones are now known to develop premature oil and coolant leaks.
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Don't blow a gasket - Father and son see niche in a job no one wants

When Rick Kaestner came to his son, Adam Kaestner, in August 2005 for his take on a new business venture the elder Kaestner was thinking about buying, it didn't take long to see the value. The business was Gasket Guy, a division of BWGaskets Inc., based in Daytona, Fla., and the concept was that there's money in doing niche work no one else wants to do. Gasket Guy simply replaces the gaskets in restaurant refrigeration equipment. When those gaskets -- such as those around a walk-in freezer door -- go bad, restaurant managers mostly call commercial refrigeration contractors.

Wide open business. "We've never been able to find anyone to (replace gaskets,) and I don't do it well," said Missy Carey, area supervisor for McDonald's Corp. and a Gasket Guy customer. Big contractors "tell you to order the gasket and put it in," Carey said. "What they don't tell you is, they only go in a certain way." Install a gasket improperly, and the doors won't close, she added. Adam Kaestner had spent most of his working life in Louisville restaurants such as Browning's Restaurant and Brewery and Volare Ristorante, so he understood how important gaskets are.
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PTFE Bellows and Diaphragms from FTL Technology

Innovative sealing and engineering solutions provider, FTL Technology, is the leading design and distribution company for providing engineered solutions for sealing, bearing and frictional problems. Available now from FTL Technology are the PTFE ranges of Bellows and Diaphragms - these flexible products are used in a variety of applications and can be developed and manufactured according to you particular application.

With regard to operation and safety for difficult and demanding applications, FTL Technology can offer Finite Element Analysis (FEA), this enables configuration of the best possible shape and advanced calculation of the service life.
PTFE is a material, which is resistant to almostall chemicals, and it can be used at temperatures up to 260°C. Applications for diaphragms and bellows in this material includes: The chemical industry. Pharmaceutical industry. Food industry (FDA approved). Medical engineering. Offshore installations. PTFE diaphragms control, separate, convey and seal aggressive media in valves and pumps. The design can be developed according to the application with regard to stroke length, temperature and pressure, physical dimension etc.
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Heat-Generated PTFE Fumes: A Silent Killer of Birds In Our Care

On Saturday, November 12, 2000, Ron, the owner of eight pet birds, started the self-cleaning oven cycle in preparation for Thanksgiving dinner. His windows were open, in compliance with the oven directions. Two hours later, his son noticed that one of the birds was having trouble standing (all birds were located in a separate room off the kitchen). Four of the birds died quickly in Ron's hands before anything could be done. Opening more windows saved the other birds.

Microscopic lung findings were consistent with the inhalation of toxic chemical fumes. No warnings about release of a toxic gas were found in the oven's directions, but the source of the fumes was the oven's nonstick coating based on PTFE. Confirmed by a necropsy examination, these four pet bird fatalities resulted from normal operation of the cleaning cycle of this PTFE-coated oven (Ramelmeier & Davidson). With their sensitive respiratory systems, birds have been used to protect us by detecting poison gas since early in the industrial age - the legendary canaries in the coal mines.



The First Quarter Analysis on The Import & Export of China's Construction Machinery in 2010 September.15.2010 According to Customs statistics, in the first quarter of 2010 China’s import and export trade sum of construction machinery is US$ 3.76 billion, up 27.5% over the previous year. Of this total, the value of imports is US$ 1.77 billion, increasing 62.3%; export value of 1.99 billion, up 6.8%, and trade surplus is US$ 220 million, down US$ 550 million. From Jan to Mar of 2010, import volume of whole cip machine is 1.12 billion, increasing 72.3% than last year, accounting for 63.3% of total imports; parts import is 650 million, up 46.6%, and 36.7% of total imports. Of this total, crawler excavators pvc fitting imported 8,872 units, up 165% over the previous year, and accounting for nearly 60% of whole machine imports, which is an increase of 22 percentage points higher than previous year. Besides, some slitting machine products show good increase in bag making machine imports, such as high-powered bulldozers, graders, asphalt pavers, all terrain cranes, tower cranes, forklifts, pneumatic tools and spare parts. As for machinery export, the volume of whole machine is 1.27 billion, up 4.1% over the previous year, accounting for 64% of total plastic valve exports; parts export is 720 million, up 11.5%, with a share of 36%. Exports continued to grow slightly in March, in which warmer faster products include loaders, road rollers, excavators, tower cranes, forklifts, tractors, engineering drills, concrete mixers, rock drills, pneumatic tools and spare parts. In the first quarter, construction machinery imports and exports show three features. First, machines imports growth is far more than exports. Total trade surplus becomes narrow, there is even a month deficit in March, which is the first time since January 2006 totally 51 months; Second, imports of whole construction machinery increase substantially, holding a share of more than 60% of total imports, especially for track excavator (mainly second hand), the import appears blowout again, which is an impact on the domestic blow molding machine brands, causing strong reactions in the industry field; Third, the worldwide market is lack of effective blow molding machine demand, the rebound in exports get along slow and poor regularity, which indicates the market still exist unstabilizing factors. Above provided by SelectChina.com, and find more information on China Machinery News/ China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quality-first Is The Proper Trend for China's Bearing Industry September.06.2010 Industry insider said, our cip bearing order price is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, therefore our export price is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings, such as skf, nsk, and timken bearings. Such low-price is easily involved in the trouble from foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers. China is now seizing the chance of strategic opportunity, by ways of implementing the scientific concept of development, promoting self-innovation, adjusting industrial frame and transforming the growth mode. But unfortunately under this environment, our bearing industry occurred some vicious, disorderly blow molding machine price competition, which make the situation worried. This folly status caused not only the barrier for their own progress, also make against to the development of the whole industry, brings serious consequences along. In this case, concerns from business plastic valve colleagues are important for curbing the disorderly price competition, thus to promote the bearing industry developing towards the harmonious way of co-innovation and high-quality production. The current hard situation is: 1. Export prices have been self-deprecating to 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price. Bearing import and export unit packing machine requires that our offer can not be higher than 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price, otherwise cannot get the export contracts. Even if the country return 12% to the export enterprises, the export tax rebates for mechanical and electrical slitting machine products is 13%, it only has 72% of the tax-inclusive price, and the non-tax price is only 66%-68% when reduce 4%-6% of the value-added tax. Our bearing pricing is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, be regarded as the export price of bearings is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings (for example, sk, nsk, timken bearings, which attracted foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers repeatedly. According to the statistics of China's bearing industry, the profit margin often maintained at between 3% -5%, while for such low pvc fitting export prices, it must has a number of domestic sells to fill it. The state introduced market economy system since reforming and opening policy carried out, and bearing products came into the competing market quickly. The industry has organized the conveyor industry leading companies to draw the directories of the price compilation every 2-5 years. In the initial the exporter could implemented the rules, but after 90s’, in order to seize the market, from companies involved in setting prices to the general implementation of the bearings business all have taken measures to decrease the price, less in 30%-40%, more in 30%-40%. Some large listed enterprises even went so far out of hard blow to their competitors by using the abundant capital from shareholders. Above provided by SelectChina.com, and find more information on China Machinery News/ China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now China Auto Market Has Become A Booming Land for Many Iron and Steel Enterprises to Invest August 19, 2010 On June 4th, the ground-breaking ceremony of Yantai Baogang Wheel Company was held in the Industrial Park of Yantai Auto Parts in Shandong, the investment of the first phase is 140 million yuan and the wheels annual output will be 1.25 million, which will eventually form the capacity of producing steel wheels that used for 3 million passenger cars and 500 thousand commercial vehicles. On June 21st, the State-owned Assets Car Parts Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of Hebei Province entrusted Hebei Iron and Steel Group with 100% of the state-owned packing machine stock share of Xuangong Machinery, which was held by Hebei State-owned Assets Holding Operation Co., Ltd, and it is China's major slitting machine manufacture enterprise in the construction machinery industry. The shock absorber factory of Beijing Steel's Jingxi Heavy Industry Co., Ltd was completed in Fang Shan base and began to install the equipment on June 27th, in the first engineering machiney phase the investment is 2 billion yuan and there will be 4 million shock absorbers produced a year. This plant Blow molding machine will supply the shock absorbers to Geely, Beijing Foton and other domestic automobile manufacturers. At the same time, Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation also announced to enter into auto parts construction machiney industry, and it will build a auto parts production base joint with Chery Automobile, which machines is expected to put into production in 2011. Investors machine are far more than domestic iron and steel enterprises. On May Japan Steel Shoji Co., Ltd, a trading comany under Japan Steel Corporation, prepared actively to enter into China's auto parts market, and 1.5 billion yen is prepared to invest in Shanghai for processing auto parts. Above provided by SelectChina.com , and find more information on China Machinery News / China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality-first Is The Proper Trend for China's Bearing Industry August 17, 2010 Industry insider said, our cip bearing order price is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, therefore our export price is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings, such as skf, nsk, and timken bearings. Such low-price is easily involved in the trouble from foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers. China is now seizing the chance of strategic opportunity, by ways of implementing the scientific concept of development, promoting self-innovation, adjusting industrial frame and transforming the growth mode. But unfortunately under this environment, our bearing industry occurred some vicious, disorderly blow molding machine price competition, which make the situation worried. This folly status caused not only the barrier for their own progress, also make against to the development of the whole industry, brings serious consequences along. In this case, concerns from business colleagues are important for curbing the disorderly price competition, thus to promote the bearing industry developing towards the harmonious way of co-innovation and high-quality production. The current hard situation is: 1. Export prices have been self-deprecating to 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price. Bearing import and export unit packing machine requires that our offer can not be higher than 60% of the compiled catalog price of 2002 bearing price, otherwise cannot get the export contracts. Even if the country return 12% to the export enterprises, the export tax rebates for mechanical and electrical slitting machine products is 13%, it only has 72% of the tax-inclusive price, and the non-tax price is only 66%-68% when reduce 4%-6% of the value-added tax. Our bearing pricing is only 0.5-0.16 of imported bearings, be regarded as the export price of bearings is only 34.5% -10.7% of the imported bearings (for example, sk, nsk, timken bearings, Famen Bearing www.b2bearing.com Chuanda Conveyor www.sellconveyorbelt.com ), which attracted foreign anti-dumpingmultiple barriers repeatedly. According to the statistics of China's bearing industry, the profit margin often maintained at between 3% -5%, while for such low export prices, it must has a number of domestic sells to fill it. The state introduced market economy system since reforming and opening policy carried out, and bearing products came into the competing market quickly. The industry has organized the industry leading companies to draw the directories of the price compilation every 2-5 years. In the initial the exporter could implemented the rules, but after 90s', in order to seize the market, from companies involved in setting prices to the general implementation of the bearings business all have taken measures to decrease the price, less in 30%-40%, more in 30%-40%. Some large listed enterprises even went so far out of hard blow to their competitors by using the abundant capital from shareholders. Above provided by SelectChina.com , and find more information on China Machinery News / China Machinery Manufacturers / China Machinery Products . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blown head gasket causes bike-pack case adjournment A driver involved in an accident with a pack of 50 elite cyclists, including three Olympians, has failed to appear in Waverley Court today, citing mechanical problems with his vehicle. Bakr Hassan, 34, of Claymore, was due to face court today charged over the May 8 incident at Mascot, which involved Olympic cyclists Ben Kersten, Michelle Ferris and Kate Nichols. Hassan was charged by police with having between 6am and 6.15am on Southern Cross Drive at Mascot, failed to give his required particulars, At the time of the crash Kersten was among fifty elite riders on an early morning training run when a Ford Falcon sedan, allegedly driven by Hassan, stalled in a lane close to the group, causing a pile-up among riders. No one was seriously injured in the incident. But when the matter came before magistrate Christopher Longley, police told the court Hassan was unable to attend due to a mechanical problem with his vehicle. Mr Longley was then handed a note from court staff which said Hassan had phoned seeking an adjournment in his hearing because of problems with his vehicle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Head Case - Tuner Tech Unraveling The Mystery Of Leaking Head Gaskets And How To Solve The Problem. If you are about to replace a leaking head gasket, you may wonder why you almost never see oil or coolant leaking from the gaskets on newer vehicles, even those with plenty of miles on them. After all, that used to make detection of a failed gasket much simpler. You may also be asking yourself what you can do to avoid head gasket problems in the future. Well, it just so happens Bill McKnight has the answers. He's Director of Training for Victor Reinz - the world's largest supplier of head gaskets, a leading supplier of gaskets to European car makers and a supplier of gaskets to the replacement market. McKnight tells us all OEM head gaskets installed on modern vehicles are multi-layer steel (MLS) construction. They feature the same elements as the MLS gaskets installed on virtually all vehicles in the '90s, but unlike today's MLS gaskets, those early ones are now known to develop premature oil and coolant leaks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't blow a gasket - Father and son see niche in a job no one wants When Rick Kaestner came to his son, Adam Kaestner, in August 2005 for his take on a new business venture the elder Kaestner was thinking about buying, it didn't take long to see the value. The business was Gasket Guy, a division of BWGaskets Inc., based in Daytona, Fla., and the concept was that there's money in doing niche work no one else wants to do. Gasket Guy simply replaces the gaskets in restaurant refrigeration equipment. When those gaskets -- such as those around a walk-in freezer door -- go bad, restaurant managers mostly call commercial refrigeration contractors. Wide open business. "We've never been able to find anyone to (replace gaskets,) and I don't do it well," said Missy Carey, area supervisor for McDonald's Corp. and a Gasket Guy customer. Big contractors "tell you to order the gasket and put it in," Carey said. "What they don't tell you is, they only go in a certain way." Install a gasket improperly, and the doors won't close, she added. Adam Kaestner had spent most of his working life in Louisville restaurants such as Browning's Restaurant and Brewery and Volare Ristorante, so he understood how important gaskets are. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PTFE Bellows and Diaphragms from FTL Technology Innovative sealing and engineering solutions provider, FTL Technology, is the leading design and distribution company for providing engineered solutions for sealing, bearing and frictional problems. Available now from FTL Technology are the PTFE ranges of Bellows and Diaphragms - these flexible products are used in a variety of applications and can be developed and manufactured according to you particular application. With regard to operation and safety for difficult and demanding applications, FTL Technology can offer Finite Element Analysis (FEA), this enables configuration of the best possible shape and advanced calculation of the service life. PTFE is a material, which is resistant to almostall chemicals, and it can be used at temperatures up to 260°C. Applications for diaphragms and bellows in this material includes: The chemical industry. Pharmaceutical industry. Food industry (FDA approved). Medical engineering. Offshore installations. PTFE diaphragms control, separate, convey and seal aggressive media in valves and pumps. The design can be developed according to the application with regard to stroke length, temperature and pressure, physical dimension etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heat-Generated PTFE Fumes: A Silent Killer of Birds In Our Care On Saturday, November 12, 2000, Ron, the owner of eight pet birds, started the self-cleaning oven cycle in preparation for Thanksgiving dinner. His windows were open, in compliance with the oven directions. Two hours later, his son noticed that one of the birds was having trouble standing (all birds were located in a separate room off the kitchen). Four of the birds died quickly in Ron's hands before anything could be done. Opening more windows saved the other birds. Microscopic lung findings were consistent with the inhalation of toxic chemical fumes. No warnings about release of a toxic gas were found in the oven's directions, but the source of the fumes was the oven's nonstick coating based on PTFE. Confirmed by a necropsy examination, these four pet bird fatalities resulted from normal operation of the cleaning cycle of this PTFE-coated oven (Ramelmeier & Davidson). With their sensitive respiratory systems, birds have been used to protect us by detecting poison gas since early in the industrial age - the legendary canaries in the coal mines.
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