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Asphaltite (also known as uintahite, asphaltum, gilsonite or oil sands [1]) is a naturally occurring soluble solid hydrocarbon, a form of asphalt [2] (or bitumen) with a relatively high melting temperature. Its large-scale production occurs in the Uintah Basin of Utah and Colorado, United States.
The first Lowe's store, Mr. L.S. Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware, opened in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1921 by Lucius Smith Lowe. [8] After Lowe died in 1940, the business was inherited by his daughter, Ruth Buchan, who sold the company to her brother, James Lowe, for $4,200, [ 9 ] that same year.
Home Quarters Warehouse (HQ) was an American chain of "big-box" home improvement stores, originally based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.In 1984, the chemical manufacturing company W.R. Grace & Co. announced its intentions to enter the home improvement retail business, hiring Bernard R. Kossar and Frank Doczi to head the new chain.
Comparable-store sales at Lowe's were down 0.7% for the fourth quarter, which ended February 3. That followed Home Depot's 0.3% drop in comparable sales for the fourth quarter, the company ...
RONA in Markham, Ontario Former RONA Cashway in Milton, Ontario Rona Home & Garden in Regina, Saskatchewan Réno-Dépôt in Laval, Québec RONA+ in Windsor, Ontario. Rona, Inc. (stylized as RONA) is a Canadian retailer of home improvement and construction products and services, owned by U.S.-based private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
Lumber yards may also sell wood-plastic composites, such as Trex, any other type of construction material or supplies, and general hardware store items. Lumber yards are the primary resources for contractors and homeowners when construction material is needed. Some big box stores, such as Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Menards, also have lumber ...
The etymologies of both English mummia and mummy derive from Medieval Latin mumia, which transcribes Arabic mūmiyā "a kind of bitumen used medicinally; a bitumen-embalmed body" from mūm "wax (used in embalming)", which descend from Persian mumiya and mum.
In 1983, Payless Cashways purchased the Sacramento, California–based Lumberjack Stores Inc for $26.3 million (~$67.6 million in 2023). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the following year, Payless Cashways purchased the Somerville, Massachusetts –based Somerville Lumber & Supply Company for $12 million in stock.