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Dear Valued Reader,
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Welcome to appliance DESIGN E-News -- the electronic newsletter for subscribers of appliance DESIGN magazine. The newsletter is in a fast-scan format so you can quickly keep up on all the latest happenings in the design industry.
Please let us know what you think by sending your comments to Larry Adams, E-News Editor, at adamsl@bnpmedia.com.
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Plastic Material Made Fire-Safe
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a synthetic polymer—a building block of plastics—that doesn’t burn, making it an attractive alternative to traditional plastics, many of which are so flammable they are sometimes referred to as “solid gasoline.” Read more ...
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Scientists Turn Heat into Sound
University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers and radars. Read more... |
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Luvata Acquires Heat-Transfer Coil Maker
Appliance Design magazine has announced the winners of its 20th Annual Excellence in Design competition.
Entrants were evaluated by an independent panel of three experts in the field of design. The products were judged by four criteria: aesthetics, human factors, innovation, and technical merits. Read more...
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ASHRAE Publishes Ventilation Standard
ASHRAE’s new 2007 ventilation standard contains key changes impacting ventilation system designers and their designs. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2007, Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality, sets minimum ventilation rates and other requirements for commercial and institutional buildings. Read more...
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Canadian Appliance Sales Grow
The Canadian Appliance Manufacturers Association (CAMA) announced that the Canadian Appliance industry remains strong, with continued growth and robust economic performance reported in 2006. The industry is forecasting growth of 3.0% for the five core home appliance products in 2007. Read more ...
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DESIGN DILEMMA: Readers Need Your Help
Appliance Design readers need your help with their DESIGN DILEMMAs.
Share your experience and help out designers.
Are you stuck on a project?
Looking for better ways to design or improve a process? Tap into the collective
experience of Appliance Design's design experts -- our newsletter
readers.
If you have any DESIGN DILEMMAs that you would like to pose to Appliance Design's readers, please forward them to the attend of Larry
Adams, E-news editor, at adamsl@bnpmedia.com. By submitting your query, you give
us permission to publish the questions. Read more ...
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ASHRAE Publishes Refrigeration Safety Standard
Expanded requirements for safety relief protection are contained in ASHRAE’s new 2007 refrigeration systems safety standard.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 15-2007, Safety Standard for Refrigeration Systems, establishes procedures for operating equipment and systems to assure the safety of building occupants and system technicians.
A significant change over the 2004 standard is expanded requirements for safety relief protection piped internally to systems. Read more ...
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JUNE 2007 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
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EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN 
Clever Creations
True, the headline sounds like the name of a too cute, upscale, boutique bakery, but some derivation of the word “create” just had to be in there. The originality found in this year’s crop of winners demanded it. Some of the products do things in an entirely new way, while others do things that simply weren’t done before. At the same time, other designers proved that there are always something new you can do to a simple box. Read more ...
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ELECTRONICS
Embedded Linux
By the Spring of this year, about 20 million Linux-based mobile phone handsets had been delivered to the market worldwide. This striking achievement occurred despite many experts all around constantly dismissing the idea that embedded Linux could play such a role in the market. “Linux is too big, it’s too slow and it certainly isn’t real-time, so it can’t possibly be a realistic solution,” they all said. But the fact is, through the efforts of the open source Linux community and commercial Linux suppliers such as MontaVista, Linux took the market by storm. Read more ...
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FANS & BLOWERS
Fine Tuning the Flow 
Government regulations and educated consumers are forcing appliance manufacturers, HVAC/R companies, and makers of electronics to develop more efficient products that make less noise, and are more environmentally friendly. Because fans and their motors are often a root cause of power consumption and acoustic noise, these manufacturers are looking to their fan/blower and motor suppliers for answers. Read more ...
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