As an industry leader, J. Gibson McIlvain lumber suppliers adhere to the standards of the industry. This includes recognizing and using the lumber grading standards developed by the National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA). These standards were set forth as a way to help lumber suppliers and wholesalers keep to a common standard, and it is […]
Industry
Protecting Fish Populations With Industrial Diversion Screens
Diverting water flow is often crucial for domestic, agricultural, livestock, and industrial operations. However, in order to divert water to irrigate a field of crops, marine life could also follow the diversion into ditches or fields. When water is diverted for an industrial facility such as a steam electric power plant or a town drinking […]
Industrial Applications for Perforated Metal Products
Many people think of perforated metal panels as primarily decorative products, but the industrial applications are just as numerous, if not more so. A wide variety of industries rely on perforated metal sheets and panels in their day-to-day operations, including companies in the fields of petrochemicals, mining, HVAC, lighting, and many more. Originally invented in […]
We Live & Breathe Electronics
Electronics. How is it that our ancestors managed to survive without them? For some of our contemporaries, a day without the television verges on tragedy. For others of us, too many hours away from the computer sets us to twitching, with a growing panic that a critical email might be sitting in our inbox. Aside […]
Wire Baskets for Industry by Three M Tool
Imagine walking into a factory. A huge brick building, several stories high, with large open spaces inside containing rows of manufacturing equipment. What do you think of when you think of industry? Machines clanging? Conveyor belts moving? Sparks flying? The wonderful smell of machine oil as parts move together? Men in goggles and safety helmets […]
The Making of a Wrist Watch
Keeping track of the time is important to many of us. It is part of our lifestyle and has been so for a long time now. One of our biggest tools in knowing what time it is wherever we go is a wrist watch. Wrist watches are an integral part of many people’s wardrobes, whether […]