RBI
Adds Thermoplastic Housings
Product
expansion increases line offering
 RBI
Bearing has added thermoplastic housings
and bearing assemblies to its product line.
Thermoplastic
is a hard-wearing alternative to traditional cast iron
types and are ideal for environments such as food processing
and pharmaceutical machinery. They will not rust or
corrode, are very cost-effective compared to stainless
steel housings and work in operating temperatures between
-35C and +102C (-31F to +216F).
Available
housings include pillow block, 4 bolt flange, 2 blot
flange, housed take-up units, tapped base units, housed
3 bolt flange, housed light flange units and adjustable
flange units.
All
specifications and drawings can be accessed at our web
site, www.rbibearing.com. Open the "Products" menu and select
"Thermoplastic Housings", or click
here to go directly
to the page.
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China
Update
A
monthly look at news from China that impacts all of
us
Putting
Wal-Mart under the microscope
If Wal-Mart were an independent nation it would be
China's eighth largest trading partner - China looks
at the 500 pound gorilla business model of capitalism...
China
plans to make yuan more market driven
US officials have been pressing China to revalue the
yuan amid criticism that it is keeping Chinese exports
unfairly cheap at the cost of US manufacturing jobs...
China
opens markets to US goods
China
offered greater market access to US goods and pledged to
step up enforcement
against copyright infringement after key ministerial talks
which saw the clinching of eight trade-boosting
agreements...
Headed
for a crisis?
China's
economy is overheated, its banks are shaky, and hot money
continues to pour in. Can the new leaders rein in a runaway
financial system? ...
Bullish
on China?
Investments
abound, but beware the hype ...
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Catalog Pages Revised
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Our
web site catalog pages have been revised
to improve readability and printable pages are available
for download. To access, open the "Products" drop-down
menu on the home page and select a category.
Don't
Forget Mom...
Mother's
Day is May 9th
The first Mother’s Day observance was in 1907, at the
request of Anna
Jarvis of Philadelphia, to honor her deceased mother.
Two years later, Jarvis and her friends
began a letter-writing campaign to declare a national
Mother’s
Day observance to honor mothers. In 1914, Congress passed legislation designating
the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
82.5 million
Estimated number of mothers of all ages in the United States. (From unpublished
data.)
82
Percentage of women 40-to-44 years old who are mothers.
2
Average number of children that women today can expect to have in their
lifetime.
23,870
Number of florists nationwide in 2001. The
flowers you buy mom probably were grown in California or Colombia.
4.0
million
Number of women who have babies each year.
Of this number, about 425,000 are teens ages 15 to
19, and more than 100,000 are age 40 or over.
25.1
Average age of women when they give birth for the first time. This
is a U.S. record high. The average age has risen nearly four years
since 1970.
1-in-32
The odds of a woman delivering twins. Her odds of having triplets
or other multiple births was approximately 1-in-540.
August
The most popular month in which to have a baby, with 359,000 births
taking place that month in 2002. July, with 358,000, was just a shade
behind.
Tuesday
The most popular day of the week in which to have a baby, with an
average of almost 13,000 births taking place on Tuesdays during 2002.
10
million
The number of single mothers living with children
under 18, up from 3 million in 1970.
Source:
U.S. Census Bureau
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