It supplies tapes, dressings, wound closure products, casting materials, electrodes, stethoscopes, drapes and masks.

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It's easy to see the appeal of donation plans to the middlemen: With commissions squeezed by on-line outfits and other low-cost competitors, brokers and insurance agents are casting about for new products to sell.

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Continuous casting is a process whereby molten steel is passed continuously through a mould, like play-dough, allowing high quality products to be manufactured at greater lengths than traditional casting.

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