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Tricycle & Cobble Form Partnership

Chattanooga, TN, Feb. 16--Tricycle, Inc., a leader in surface simulation and design technology, announces a cooperating partnership with Cobble USA and Cobble Blackburn (UK).

Lawmakers Divert Funds for CARE Project, Among Oth

Washington, DC, Feb. 17--Researchers and companies working to prevent future power blackouts are seeing their federal funding slip away to lawmakers' home-district projects, including research on ceramic engines and burning recycled carpets as fuel.

Industrial Production Climbs

Washington, Feb. 17--Industrial production climbed faster than expected in January as auto makers once again revved up assembly lines.

Pakistan Carpet Export Update

Lahore, Pakistan, Feb. 16--Pakistan exports hand-knotted carpets worth US$131.78 million during the first seven months of the current fiscal year against exports of US $122.898 million during the corresponding period of the previous year.

Hacker Industries Introduces True Screed Underlaym

Newport Beach, CA, Feb. 16--A cutting-edge new self-leveling Portland cement-based underlayment that offers high compressive strengths and superior bonding characteristics is now available from Hacker Industries.

Feltex Earnings Up

Auckland, New Zealand, Feb. 13-- The Feltex Group recorded a net surplus of $11.4 million for the six months ended 31 December 2003.

BASF to Raise Ultramid Polyamide & Caprolactum Pri

Mount Olive, NJ, Feb. 12--BASF today announced that it will increase prices for Ultramid polyamide (PA) 6 spinning polymer, compounding resins and caprolactum in North America by six cents per pound, effective March 1.