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2. Cement board - Wikipedia

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   A cement board is a combination of cement and reinforcing fibers formed into sheets, of varying thickness that are typically used as a tile backing board. [1] Cement board can be nailed or screwed to wood or steel studs to create a substrate for vertical tile and attached horizontally to plywood for tile floors, kitchen counters and backsplashes.

3. USG Corporation - Wikipedia

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   In 1909, Avery led the USG acquisition of the Sackett Plaster Board Company, [13] inventor of Sackett Board, which was a panel made of multiple layers of plaster and paper. Patented by USG in 1912, a new manufacturing process produced boards with a single layer of plaster and paper that could be joined flush along a wall with a relatively ...

4. Magnesium oxide wallboard - Wikipedia

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   Magnesium oxide, more commonly called magnesia, is a mineral that when used as part of a cement mixture and cast into thin cement panels under proper curing procedures and practices can be used in residential and commercial building construction. Some versions are suitable for general building uses and for applications that require fire ...

5. Structural insulated panel - Wikipedia

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   SIP is a sandwich structured composite, consisting of an insulating layer of rigid core sandwiched between two layers of structural board. The board can be sheet metal , fibre cement , magnesium oxide board (MgO), plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), and the core can either be expanded polystyrene foam (EPS), extruded polystyrene foam (XPS ...

6. Transite - Wikipedia

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   Transite originated as a brand that Johns Manville, an American company, created in 1929 for a line of asbestos-cement products, including boards and pipes. [1] In time it became a generic term for other companies' similar asbestos-cement products, and later an even more generic term for a hard, fireproof composite material , fibre cement ...

7. Former Allianz employee spared prison time over $7 billion ...

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   A former Allianz fund manager was spared prison time on Friday over his role in a meltdown of private investment funds sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic that caused an estimated $7 billion of ...

8. Participation in mental health care in low-income households ...

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   Wealth inequality casts its shadow on everything from children's early development to adults' emotional well-being. It directly impacts education, housing, wellness and mental health.In fact ...

9. Comcast to announce the spinoff of cable networks, including ...

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   Comcast is expected to announce a plan Wednesday to spin off its cable networks into a separate company, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.