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In 1972 Mike borrowed $3,000 to register Lowe Alpine Systems as a manufacturing business. The brand was sold to Rab in 2011, and in 2014 it was announced that Lowe Alpine would stop making clothing. [ 1 ]
Lowe's and manufacturing partner J.H. Williams launched Kobalt in 1998, [1] with the intention of competing against rival retailers Sears and The Home Depot and their respective Craftsman and Husky tool brands. [2] In 2003, the Danaher Corporation began producing the majority of Kobalt hand tools. [3] [4]
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.
Sea water flake ice machine can make ice directly from the seawater. This ice can be used in the fast cooling of fish and other sea products. The fishing industry is the largest user of flake ice machines. Flake ice can lower the temperature of cleaning water and sea products, therefore it resists the growth of bacteria and keeps the seafood fresh.
A heated sidewalk in Holland, Michigan Installation of a geothermal snowmelt system on a street in Reykjavík, Iceland.. A snowmelt system prevents the build-up of snow and ice on cycleways, walkways, patios and roadways, or more economically, only a portion of the area such as a pair of 2-foot (0.61 m)-wide tire tracks on a driveway or a 3-foot (0.91 m) center portion of a sidewalk, etc.
Black Diamond Equipment design and manufacture products for climbing, skiing, and mountain sports. Climbing products include carabiners, quickdraws, harnesses, active and passive climbing protection, belay devices, helmets, ice tools and piolets, crampons, ice screws, bouldering pads, and big wall equipment.
MAT Holdings, Inc. is an American company that manufactures MAT Industries air compressors, pneumatic tools, pressure washers, and accessories.Gabriel Shock & Struts; Midwest Air Technologies (Fencing, Pet Containment, Lawn & Garden accessories, and other consumer goods; MAT Logistics, distribution and 3PL; and MATHD Heavy Duty Brake relining divisions.
They moved into making rubber, vinyl and soon thereafter, carpet floormats as the business expanded. Bobby Rahal 's Kraco-sponsored IndyCar from 1989 During the 1980s and 1990s, Kraco sponsored Indy Car racing with drivers Michael Andretti , Bobby Rahal and Al Unser Jr. , winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1992.