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  • 1 week ago | supplychaindive.com | Robert Freedman |Philip Neuffer

    This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Several imported appliances will be subject to 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum later this month, per a June 12 Federal Register notice from the U.S. Commerce Department. Beginning June 23, the levies will apply to the steel and aluminum content of freezers, refrigerator-freezers, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, stoves, ranges and ovens, food-waste disposals and some wire racks.

  • 2 weeks ago | facilitiesdive.com | Robert Freedman

    Facilities managers planning to buy appliances in the near term could face higher prices after a 50% tariff on aluminum and steel derivative products takes effect June 23. The U.S. Commerce Department on June 12 issued a notice applying the tariff on the steel and aluminum content in a handful of imported appliances: freezers, refrigerator-freezers, dryers, stoves, ranges and ovens, food-waste disposals and some wire racks.

  • 2 weeks ago | utilitydive.com | Robert Freedman

    Facilities operations became part of a semiconductor manufacturer’s financial turnaround when it stabilized its energy costs by putting in a microgrid, says Charlie Lord, managing principal at Renew Energy Partners, an energy-as-a-service company.   The publicly traded manufacturer had been struggling with financial challenges caused in part by the unreliability of the utility grid it was counting on for its energy, Lord told Facilities Dive.

  • 2 weeks ago | facilitiesdive.com | Robert Freedman

    When Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, alerted businesses June 10 to a parking lot scam, it was a reminder that facilities are vulnerable to quishing – the fraudulent use of QR codes. Scammers were collecting people’s financial information by sticking QR codes onto parking meters and inside a municipal garage and directing drivers to scan the codes to make parking payments.

  • 2 weeks ago | facilitiesdive.com | Robert Freedman

    In as little as five years, manufacturers could be selling paint that helps keep a building cool in warm weather and warm in cold weather thanks to the way chains of liquid crystals react to temperature, according to a CNN report. In what’s known as a thermochromic response, chains of liquid crystals react to ambient temperature.

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