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WidgetCo, Inc. is an e-commerce and manufacturing company headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States. [1] WidgetCo products have been featured by Better Homes and Gardens [2] and Gawker Media. [3] WidgetCo manufactures and distributes metal, plastic, cork, rubber and wood products to businesses and individuals worldwide.
Cork flooring is made by removing the bark of the Cork Oak (Quercus Suber) without harming the tree (if harvested correctly); as such, it is a renewable and sustainable resource. It is naturally anti-microbial and has excellent insulation properties, ensuring minimal heat loss and comfortable warm walking surface.
Adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, [1] is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them ...
Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork-based ...
The findings clearly demonstrated that moisture absorption during the rainy season is confined to the surface layers and has no effect on the cork's thermal insulation performance. Other research has focused on cork-based composites. The insulation used in the studies by Cherki et al. [12] and Monir et al., [13] is a cork-gypsum composite ...
Caulk boots or calk boots [1] (also called cork boots, timber boots, logger boots, logging boots, or corks) [2] are a form of rugged spike-soled footwear that are most often associated with the timber industry. [3] They are worn for traction in the woods and were especially useful in timber rafting. [4]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
It was founded as California Computer Products, Inc [1] [2] in 1959, [5] located in Anaheim, California.. Sanders Associates, Inc., purchased Calcomp in 1980. [6] In 1986, Sanders Associates was purchased by the Lockheed Corporation, and merged into Lockheed's Information Systems Group. [7]