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COVID-19 Impact: ‘What It Looks Like When an Entire Supply Chain Falls Apart’

Cortera, in partnership with Moody’s Analytics, uses their COVID-19 Economic Impact Tracker (CEIT) to provide a breakdown of purchasing data from thousands of companies in...

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Runaway truck mount

A 3.5 tonne truck mounted lift slipped down a steep cobbled street on its outriggers in Fribourg, Switzerland on Wednesday.The platform, a Ruthmann TBR belonging...

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Crane tips on bridge lift

A 50 ton truck crane overturned in Port Carlin, Muskoka, Canada last Tuesday, injuring the operator.The crane, owned by marine equipment fabricator Kropf, was in...

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Crane company helps nursing home get visitors during lockdown

Something he saw as he drove to work one morning gave Tristan Van den Bosch an uplifting idea. “I saw a man shouting at his...

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How the coronavirus could change bathrooms for the better

Even before COVID-19, the United States was behind in its approach to public restroom design: gendered bathrooms with typical foot-revealing stalls (or even totally unencased...

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Scientists are racing to design a face mask that can rip coronavirus apart

In the nascent days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jiaxing Huang watched as the novel virus overwhelmed the hospitals in his native China. A professor of...

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Amazon Business is on track to be the biggest industrial distributor…ever!

Amazon Business will achieve gross merchandise volume (GMV) of $75 billion by 2023, Applico says. This sales growth would make Amazon Business the biggest industrial...

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NOW Inc. Takes $331M Loss in Q1, Will Cut 1,250 Jobs

Houston-based oilfield products distributor and energy services provider NOW Inc. reported its 2020 first quarter financial results on Wednesday, showing an accelerated considerable decrease in...

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Fastenal’s April Safety Sales Spiked 120% as Other Product Lines Fell

As one of the only large B2B distributors that publicly shares its monthly sales information, Fastenal did so for April Wednesday morning — and the...

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DXP Enteprises Sees Modest Q1 Declines, Sequential Gains

Houston-based pumping solutions and MROP products distributor DXP Enterprises reported its 2020 first quarter financial results on Friday, which showed a modest decline in year-over-year...