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LITHOFIN – the original product for cleaning stone

LITHOFIN – the original products for cleaning, sealing and maintaining natural and artificial stone, ceramics and porcelain, cotto and terracotta, quarry and quartz composite.

Lithofin is produced by Lithofin AG, an internationally recognised authority on the subject of cleaning, sealing and the maintenance of limestone, sandstone, granite, marble, glazed and unglazed ceramic and porcelain. The Lithofin programme originated from a few products and these have grown in number and the fields of application and have now developed into a comprehensive range of tile and stone care products for professionals and end consumers.

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A Site for Sore Eyes from Unilin Systems

Unilin Systems has redeveloped its website, www.unilin-systems.com, to be better positioned in providing specifiers and developers with the necessary information on its range of structural insulated roof panels.

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The Big Lie

It has been revealed that David Cameron has set up a Cabinet Office Behavioural Insight Team. Formed in July 2010, the secretive cell is tasked to ‘dream up psychological tricks to alter our behaviour’ … and on a colossal scale.

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Dickies Seville Fleece Plays Big Part in Keeping Warm

Perhaps not quite what Rossini had in mind for Figaro the Barber to wear 200 years ago in the ever popular opera, but the Seville Fleece from Dickies is certainly something to sing about now.

It’s just the thing to keep the cold out during these long winter months whether you’re the warm up act in a cold theatre or playing a working or leisure role outside.

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Everything Under One Roof

With a vision to become the first independent specialist roofing materials distributor, David Proos began trading in the roofing industry in 1970 and has been the managing director of Rinus Roofing Supplies since 2002.

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Innovation and Excellence in Construction

SpellerMetcalfe is a privately owned building contractor with offices in Malvern and Gloucester, from where they provide a construction, refurbishment and design build service in the Midlands and nationally to meet individual client needs.

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Breathe easy About Asbestos Exposure

Undertaking a broad spectrum of works within the asbestos industry, from site samples, surveys and management plans through to full licensed removal of asbestos products and the associated analytical works, Solent Environment was founded in 1984 in response to the asbestos legislation of the late 70s.

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Putting the Ability Back into Disability

With the Government placing more and more emphasis upon ‘Care in the Community’, there is a growing recognition that more needs to be done to enable people of all ages with physical disabilities to lead a normal life in their own home. In many cases in the past, this has meant major reconstruction and alteration, but now there is a company that is offering a professional design and adaptation programme that would seem to be much more efficient.

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Creativity by Design

Creating great architecture and interior design is a passion, a calling; as well as a science and a business.

It has been described as a social art and also an artful science, and at Newry-based P. O’Hagan and Associates they use this wide-ranging expertise to bring into being imaginative design solutions which are creative in their response to the client’s aspirations and appropriate to the client’s needs.

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From Horticulture to Industrial Applications, Silvaperl has the Answers!

Some thirty years ago, an entrepreneur with a background in Perlite and a leading horticulturist got together to launch a company with a future as they saw it more allied to horticulture than to construction.

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