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A Hard Lesson from the FieldLast summer, a warehouse retrofit project in Texas ran into trouble. The installation crew, wanting to make the foil woven fabric look "nice and tight," yanked the material hard as they stretched it across the roof purlins. It looked smooth when they finished — until two
A Compressor Working Itself to DeathLast month, a maintenance manager for a convenience store chain ran some numbers for me. He oversees refrigeration equipment across 60 locations. Last year he replaced four compressors — not because they were defective, but because they'd simply been run into the
A Young Entrepreneur's Packaging HeadacheThree months ago, a young guy who'd just started a nut packaging supply business called me, sounding stressed. "I bought aluminum-plastic composite film from you," he said. "The samples passed client approval, but the moment we ran production trials, everythi
