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The Geek Chic Company Releases The Chill Pak: $20 Notebook Cooling System

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LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) January 29, 2004

The Geek Chic Company announced today that The Chill-Pak, a gel pack with a condensation-proof cover that cools laptops, is now available online at http://www.chillpak.com. The unit, which improves performance and comfort, sells for about twenty dollars ($ 20.00).

Founder and President Dean Haglund, known as the hacker “Langly” on the hit series The X-Files, devised the idea for The Chill-Pak while icing a knee injury.

“I noticed that my notebook processing speeds improved when I had the gel pack on my knee with the computer on top of it. Today’s slimmer laptops have sacrificed the efficacy of their internal cooling systems and they get incredibly hot which affects their performance. This is an inexpensive way to deal with that problem.”

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Oregon Company Expands International Scope to Include Financing and Logistics

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Ashland, OR (PRWEB) October 1, 2005

Oregon’s 360 Interchange has expanded its scope to include financing and logistics as the international trade company plows ahead on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Led by CEO Bill Patridge, 360 Interchange began shipping containers from large-scale Chinese manufactures to major American buyers earlier this year.

On September 27, 2005, the company announced its plans to acquire a Chinese logistics firm based in Shanghai for several million dollars, according to Patridge. Established in 2000, the logistics company has five locations, including two port sites. The company employs 135 people and ships about 2,000 40-foot containers each month. It’s in the process of leasing up to 30 trucks.

“They’re shipping thousands of containers,” Patridge said. “This is no big deal compared to China’s present 90 million per year. But we’re using this company to aggressively go after a giant piece of the puzzle.”

Logistics, Chinese culture, financing, quality control, and product development for the U.S. market are all pieces of the puzzle, according to Patridge. The 360 staff is working toward a possible public stock offering later this year. In October, Patridge begins a three-stop tour to Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York to meet with investment bankers before returning to China in October.

“There are top global banks indicating they want to participate,” Patridge said. “Everyone is trying to figure out how to get a toe in the water in China. We have access because of our unique approach.”

360 Interchange’s office in Shanghai is strategically located down the hall from Wal-Mart’s global procurement office that handles $ 18 billion of transactions each year. The company has a dozen or so Ashland employees, a few in China, and 50 representatives scattered in every hemisphere. Its potential is underscored by China’s phenomenal economic growth.

According to the China Ministry of Communications and the Chinese Transportation Department, its eight largest ports alone account for more than a quarter of the globe’s 20-foot equivalent intermodal shipping containers and overall it ships roughly 70 million such units. Shanghai alone handled 14.56 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) in 2004, up 39 percent over 2003. By 2010, it is estimated three ports – Shenzhen, Shanghai and Hong Kong – will combine to ship more than 90 million containers. Asian ports, working 24 hours, seven days a week, process containers at an annual rate of 18,000 per acre.

Patridge is already searching for 360′s next deal, perhaps bigger than the logistics company purchase as it looks to expand its operations and provide financing opportunities to manufacturers.

“What most people don’t understand,” Patridge said. “Is that China and U.S. banks don’t trust each other yet. When a manufacturer gets a large order from an American company, the banks in China usually don’t know anything about the American company.”

Patridge says it’s an opportunity for a company familiar with Chinese manufacturing and offices in both countries to arrange for secured working capital loans for stable, established Chinese producers.

“We’re not re-inventing the wheel,” he said. “We’re just problem solving.”

360 Interchange will pursue opportunities based on China’s low production costs, including wood flooring and other products. With the help of international law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, 360 Interchange has sorted out a range of patent and other legal issues for Chinese flooring producers.

Chief Operating Officer Gregg A. Anderson said 360 Interchange now sells hardwood, engineered, and laminated flooring to companies such as Carpet One and major distributors, some of which sell to the nations’ largest home building centers. In the past 30 days, the company has received $ 330,000 worth of orders for immediate delivery.

“We feel comfortable in our projections that we can sell the equivalent of 100 20-foot containers/month during 2006 with an aggregate sales value of $ 24 million,” Anderson said.

“According to a recent Fortune Magazine article, China’s growing economy has created vast wealth. There will be 100 million people who can afford to purchase Rolex watches or other high-end products.” “We plan to tap that market,” said Patridge.

“China will be the largest diamond consumer in the world and we want to be in on that too,” Patridge said. “There will be more wealthy people in China than the U.S. just by sheer numbers.”

For more information on 360 Interchange, please visit the company website at http://www.360interchange.com or call (541) 552-9360.

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Eklectik Genes Clothing Company in Partnership with MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16”

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 2, 2005

Teen program on MTV entitled “My Super Sweet 16”, in which outrageous and over-the-top “sweet 16” birthday parties are documented and broadcast, featured a partnership with Eklectik Genes Clothing Company.

Carlysia Levert, daughter of R&B singer Gerald Levert, posed as the episode’s “birthday girl”. As the only female to carry on the legacy of her royal R&B family and break the masculine chain that has made the O’Jays and Gerald Levert infamous, she debuted her hit single “Dats Whatssup”. It was rumored that Carlysia performed with her father, in a similar fashion to Eddie and Gerald Levert’s performance of “Wind Beneath My Wings”. This extravagant private party took place September 24th at “The View” in King Plows Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eklectik Genes Clothing Company provided products for the DJs, Carlysia’s bodyguards, and were included in the gift bags that were given to the approximate 200 guests, including Trey Smith III, Sierra Green, Chyna Evans, Christopher Wallace, Jr., Bobby Christina Brown, JoJo, B-5, Ciara, Bow Wow, Alexis and Mariah Woodson, Devon Casey, Raven Symone, Taj Mowry, and children of industry artists with residences in Atlanta including Bone Crusher, Jamie Foxx, Keith Sweat, Montell Jordan, Kelly Price, and 112. The episode is set to air October 10, 2005 at 10:30pm. For more information call (770) 381-8497 or visit http://www.ekgenes.com

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Safety First — Marshfield Company Sets National Standards

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Kingston, MA (PRWEB) October 19, 2005

Taylor Lumber/ACE Hardware, a Marshfield landmark for over half a century, is helping set standards for their workplace and for the entire industry. As a member of the industry?s trade association, National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA), Rick Taylor is helping shape the newly formed Risk Management policy.

Pro Sales Magazine, the trade publication for the lumber industry, recently featured Taylor as a leading force in establishing benchmarks for a safe workplace.

Rick Taylor has been part of his family owned business for 45 of the company?s 60 years of existence. Taylor, currently the CEO of Taylor Lumber and Hardware, knows that the word family extends outside of his siblings, parents, wife and children. He also includes the 24 full and part-time employees who come to work for him every day as part of that special group.

To that extent, Taylor is doing everything in his power to make sure his ?family? is safe. The goal of this organization is to ensure a harm-free workplace. To reach that goal dealers need to focus on creating and maintaining a safety program that becomes part of the corporate culture. The safety program focuses on training and has certain motivations so that workers are motivated to participate.

?We have staff meetings monthly after work to train on new products and safety is always part of the conversation,? said Taylor. ?We try to make it as fun as possible by providing pizzas to thank them for sticking around after a long work day. But regardless of how friendly and fun these meetings are, we always are very serious when it comes to discussing safety. You can never be too careful in this or any other business.?

There are business reasons why Taylor is putting so much emphasis on safety. OSHA looks for management to be committed to safety programs as do underwriters when they are deciding whether or not to insure a dealer.

?The top people in the company have to be involved, committed and give their blessing,? said Margery Young, senior control technical specialist for Meadowbrook/TPA Associates which administers the Self-Insured Lumber Business Association, the insurance group of which Taylor Lumber is a member. ?It doesn?t work if management isn?t fully committed.?

For Taylor the attention to detail about safety goes beyond good business, it is about protecting the people who have dedicated themselves to Taylor and the company.

?The last thing I want to do is tell bad news to the parents or the spouse of one of people we work with,? said Taylor. ?I don?t even want to think about that.?

Safety measures at Taylor Lumber include proper training for the operation of folk lifts and the propane filling station. Winter presents its own set of safety challenges as Taylor demands ice and snow removal almost as quickly as it falls. Taylor also provides his workers with a written safety program, which includes input from the employees, worksite analysis, hazard prevention and health training.

?Management can?t look at safety as an expense but rather as a investment that will pay dividends,? said Taylor. ?Companies which adhere to strict safety standards benefit by lower workers? compensation insurance rates, higher production and higher morale.?

Taylor Lumber/ACE Hardware has maintained the old fashioned, personal service once offered by every good hometown lumber and hardware store. The Taylor family has been serving Marshfield?s lumber and hardware needs for more than 60 years. Today they are a full-service hardware store and lumberyard serving professional contractors and the ?do-it-yourselfer?. Taylor Lumber combines traditional, old-fashioned service with the advances of today’s building materials. As an ACE affiliate, they are able to bring the customer a wide variety of top quality, competitively priced products.

Taylor Lumber/ACE Hardware is located at 2075 Ocean Street (Route 139) in Marshfield, Mass. They can be reached at 781.834.7921 or toll free at 800.562.9663. Also, visit Taylor Lumber/ACE Hardware on the web at http://www.taylor-ace.com.

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Vermont Company Gives Students Taste of Modern Manufacturing

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East Dorset, VT (PRWEB) January 26, 2006

Pad Print Machinery of Vermont, a high-tech modern manufacturing facility joins with other Vermont companies in allowing students to experience a real world job as part of a field study program developed by Manchester, VT semi-private high school, Burr & Burton Academy.

“Manufacturing isn’t what it used to be,” smiled Julian Joffe, founder and president of Pad Print Machinery of Vermont. His company, along with other southern Vermont businesses, is taking part in a program that offers Burr & Burton Academy (BBA) students an opportunity to gain first hand knowledge of real-world commerce. “Young people setting goals for the future are quick to dismiss a manufacturing career,” said Joffe. “Many of them have an image of a dark, noisy, smelly and dangerous workplace where the job is boring and the compensation limited,” he continued, “but modern manufacturing, especially what we are doing here, is the polar opposite!” The well-designed Pad Print Machinery building is flooded with natural light and looks more like a modern office building than manufacturing facility.

“Naturally, when we learned of the BBA program, we wanted to be involved,” Joffe said. “Most young people go from being students directly into the work environment—the equivalent of an ice cold shower in August. We hope that in some small way we can make a contribution to our community by giving the younger generation an opportunity to experience the work place. By removing the shock factor, I am hoping we can give them a better chance at choosing a career that they will enjoy and, at the least, help them decide on a direction before they go to College and not after they graduate. I’m a perfect example,” Joffe laughed, “I have a degree in Zoology, but Engineering is what I really love!”

Pad Print Machinery of Vermont’s first BBA Field Study student has just successfully completed a semester-long program that started last September. Scott Newman, Production Manager and ten-year Pad Print veteran, thinks the school’s field study program is an excellent idea. Along with the seven people he supervises, Newman was also responsible for field study student, Zach. “It was an enjoyable experience-he’s very quick to learn. Zach has a keen eye for detail which is really important in our industry,” said Newman. Zach’s ‘final’ consisted of setting up a pad printing machine to do a specific job, choosing the right pads for the application, determining the proper color registrations, performing a test print and completing a production run. According to Newman, Zach aced it. “I would definitely recommend this program to any company,” Newman said.

Burr & Burton Academy faculty member and Field Study Director, Tony Napolitano, says there are more than 100 area businesses that participate in the program. “Field Study is designed to give students an opportunity to receive part of their education within the larger community. It is not a job! It is a program in a different location, through a different process, and with teachers who are not in a school classroom but in the classroom of life,” explained Napolitano. “Zach did a great job at Pad Print Machinery,” he added enthusiastically.

About Pad Print Machinery of Vermont

Julian Joffe is the founder and president of Pad Print of Vermont. Although Joffe earned his degree in zoology, he had had a penchant for manufacturing as a result of the many hours he spent tinkering in his father’s workshop in South Africa as a youth. Upon graduation from University in 1976, he went to work in his father’s textile business and subsequently took over leadership of the company—expanding the business to include pad printing. In 1981, citing strong philosophical differences with the apartheid government, Joffe moved his family to United States and, in 1985, embarked on an alliance with COMEC Italia. He founded COMEC USA in a pre-world war one building in Yonkers, NY.

Over the next ten years business flourished. However, Joffe began to feel the magnetism of the New England way of life beckon. In 1994, he could no longer resist the urge to live a simpler, more enriched lifestyle and moved to Vermont.

Pad Print Machinery of Vermont was born in what had been, during the fifties and sixties, the sole movie theater in picturesque Manchester, VT. As the company continued to grow in both number of employees and amount of machines being built at any given point in time, they began to suffer a terminal case of claustrophobia. A concerted search for an appropriately-sized facility in southern or central Vermont finally paid off and, in 2003, they moved into a new 22,500 square foot building located in East Dorset, Vermont just five miles north of the cramped quarters in the old theater.

The new airy and spacious hi-tech facility has a reception area, a large showroom, Machine Shop, Graphics Department, Plate Department, Ink Department, Sales Department, Shipping Department, and administrative offices. For many Pad Print employees, it has become a home away from home. The Pad Print team now comprises 32 highly-skilled and motivated individuals with an incredible sense of team spirit. Their experience in the pad printing industry is second to none.

Pad Print Machinery of Vermont’s newest pad printing machines have combined technologies from the latest innovations in mechanical engineering and electronics. These machines are servo controlled and are extremely fast, extremely precise, and extremely reliable. PPMoV has led the pad printing industry with such breakthrough innovations as the ability to print on medical devices as small as .01 inch to fully automated eight-color machines.

In pursuing the goal of perfection in Customer Service and Satisfaction, the company constantly pushes the edge of the envelope and discovers more and more ways to incorporate pad printing into the customer manufacturing process. They look forward to the next 100 years.

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Kansas City Snow Removal Company Modernizes Operations And Equipment To Land Largest Contracts In City And Surrounding Area

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Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) September 29, 2006

Snowmen, one of Kansas City’s largest snow removal companies is proud to announce that it has significantly upgraded and modernized its internal infrastructure to keep pace with the needs of todays modern business society. Snowmen is one of only three companies in the Kansas City area that focuses all of its energies on snow removal year round.

It does not mow grass, spray trees, or do anything else other than focus on snow removal. In order to keep and maintain a large customer base of high-profile clients, Snowmen has had to stay on the leading edge of technology, equipment, and snow removal systems. View Snowmen’s website at http://www.snowmenkc.com Jeremy Swenson, the owner of Snowmen, has designed an industry specific software package for marketing, estimating, bidding and tracking of snow removal accounts and activity. This software will be available for sale in the near future.

Snowmen works over 100 snowplow trucks during a snowstorm, and has over 175 personnel working citywide during a snow or ice event. Snowmen has state of the art office facilities that are custom designed for facilitating the specific needs of snow removal managers and crews during a 24 hour snow or ice event. There are full shower facilities, sleeping rooms, and a comfortable area for crews to refresh during extended winter storms. Snowmen has many high profile clients, and specializes in offering personalized customer service to high profile building owners and managers.

Snowmen is proud to be on the cutting edge of the snow removal industry, and feels that its clients will benefit for many years to come from its efforts to take technology and equipment far beyond just a rusty truck and a snowplow. For more information on Snowmen and the services they provide, visit http://www.snowmenkc.com

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Land Maintenance Company Pro-Lawns, Inc. Announces it Has Gone Green

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St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) August 19, 2009

Pro-Lawns, Inc. an established leader for commercial land maintenance and lawn care in the St. Louis and surrounding areas, is happy to announce that as a result of growing environmental concerns, Pro-Lawns, Inc. has gone green.

Pro-Lawns, Inc. Going Green–What It Means

For Pro-Lawns, Inc., going green means using landscaping, land maintenance and lawn care techniques that keep the protection of the environment in mind. When it comes to landscaping, that means using native plants that work well with the area’s natural soil. An added bonus of this is that these plants often use less water, and minimizing water waste is another way that Pro-Lawns, Inc. protects the environment. High-quality water conservation techniques are one big way that Pro-Lawns, Inc. attracts and keeps customers. Their irrigation services use up to 30% less water, which adds up to big savings for Pro-Lawns customers. Pro-Lawns, Inc. also prides itself on using environmentally-friendly fertilizer and pest treatment options.

Pro-Lawns, Inc. Going Green with Green Machines

Another aspect of lawn care and landscape maintenance that can threaten the environment is the use of lawn and landscape machinery. These machines burn fossil fuels, which contributes to air and noise pollution. Pro-Lawns, Inc. frequently takes advantage of opportunities to avoid using heavy carbon-emitting machines. They hand weed when appropriate and use push mowers in narrow areas. Any remaining trimmings or other debris is immediately collected and disposed of in an environmentally-friendly fashion.

Pro-Lawns, Inc. and Irrigation

Poor irrigation can be wasteful, expensive, and result in damage to lawns or landscaped areas. Pro -Lawns, Inc. are irrigation experts, using systems that irrigate in the right areas, not the wrong ones, that don’t waste water, and that adequately handle backflow.

Pro-Lawns, Inc. and Snow Removal

People don’t generally associate snow removal with green techniques but Pro-Lawns, Inc. does. A major threat to the environment comes from the excess salt that some snow removers saturate the ground with in order to eliminate ice. Pro-Lawns, Inc. adds the patented Ice Ban formula to their salt mixture, an environmentally safe and approved additive that not only melts the snow faster, but dilutes the salt soaked up by the plants in the melted snow so that it is less harmful to that plant life. Pro-Lawns, Inc. also removes the snow piles that result from snow removal techniques which can melt and damage a landscape or lawn.

With a history of over twenty years of service and satisfied customers, Pro-Lawns Inc. offers standard lawn care, as well as irrigation maintenance, landscaping, aquatic control, snow removal and several other services that will ensure a commercial area looks its very best.

For further information on Pro-Lawns, Inc., visit Pro-LawnsInc.com

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Top Three Pet Claims Released by National Insurance Company

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King, NC (Vocus) September 18, 2009

Business Insurers of the Carolinas, a Chapel Hill, NC, based insurance company that services the pet-care industry, has released its top three categories of insurance claims received from professional pet sitters during 2008.

David Pearsall, director of sales and marketing for Business Insurers of the Carolinas, said that his company, who underwrites the bonding and insurance policies for a majority of pet-sitter businesses in the United States, has received a wide variety of claims over the last year, but most are the result of pets behaving like pets.

The top claims from professional pet sitters fall into these three categories:

1. Walking/Playing/Running – This broad category includes injuries such as pets being bitten by snakes while on hikes, torn anterior cruciate ligaments while playing Frisbee