Other important construction tools include the plumb bob, the wrench, the rope and the chain.
Axioma, a firm that provides risk models and portfolio-construction tools for stock investors, uses 10 factors for U.S. stocks, including exchange-rate sensitivity, debt load and momentum, or the tendency of a rallying stock to keep rallying.
Sweden's Sandvik (6.6, SDVKY) fell 70% in the bear market as the recession whacked sales of its metal-cutting, mining and construction tools as well as specialty alloys based on titanium and zirconium, used in thousands of applications like boiler tubes and flanges.
Founded in 1934 as Herramientas S.A., the company spent its early days producing construction and agricultural tools.
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Two years later EVI bought Weatherford Enterra, which had a worldwide business in well construction and downhole tools.
"Construction workers need to hold tools to become more productive, and you and me might want to climb Kilimanjaro and need extra power from a bionic leg, " he said.
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Their mobile command center includes a mobile kitchen, two construction trailers full of equipment, and tools and clean-up supplies for more than 100 volunteers.
Within a year, he aims to open plants under construction in Singapore and Malaysia to make oilfield tools, and intends to expand the truck-body business into China.
The ritual combines knowledge of agriculture, food processing, handicrafts (costumes, tools and musical instruments) and the construction of houses and fishing dams.
Construction workers only need limited juice for charging power tools and perhaps a cellphone power, pretty much the same thing disaster survivors require immediately after impact.
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