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Author: Barry Breede Publisher: ISBN: 9781599328935 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Getting Out Of The Woods One Forest Products Company's Approach to Sustainability and Innovation This book is about one company, Cox Industries, and their mission to establish an innovation program that powers the creation of a unique, industry-leading business model. Family owned and operated for over sixty-five years, Cox Industries--recently acquired by Koppers--is the largest American-owned provider of treated wood utility poles in the US. With the addition of Cox Industries, Koppers is poised to become one of the largest wood treatment, production, and supply companies in the world. This book frames the challenges facing many small and mid-sized companies trapped in price-driven, commodity-like industries who remain hopeful of finding a more promising future. In Transforming the Utility Pole, author Barry Breede shows how one company and its strategic approach to innovations that are both profitable and progressive can serve as inspiration to business leaders across industries who want to make sustainability and corporate responsibility work together while running a successful business.
Author: Barry Breede Publisher: ISBN: 9781599328935 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Getting Out Of The Woods One Forest Products Company's Approach to Sustainability and Innovation This book is about one company, Cox Industries, and their mission to establish an innovation program that powers the creation of a unique, industry-leading business model. Family owned and operated for over sixty-five years, Cox Industries--recently acquired by Koppers--is the largest American-owned provider of treated wood utility poles in the US. With the addition of Cox Industries, Koppers is poised to become one of the largest wood treatment, production, and supply companies in the world. This book frames the challenges facing many small and mid-sized companies trapped in price-driven, commodity-like industries who remain hopeful of finding a more promising future. In Transforming the Utility Pole, author Barry Breede shows how one company and its strategic approach to innovations that are both profitable and progressive can serve as inspiration to business leaders across industries who want to make sustainability and corporate responsibility work together while running a successful business.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electric lines Languages : en Pages : 7
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Paper 1 describes how, through patient negotiation and coordination, one utility company resolved what was felt to be an insurmountable economic obstacle involving a request to remove 200 overhead poles in conflict with a highway improvement project. Negotiations involved the Commonwealth Edison Company, the State of Illinois and five villages. Paper 2 addresses some of the existing concerns of the utility industry about the breakaway utility pole concept as a viable solution to the highway roadside safety problem. Some of the public hazards of making existing plant poles into a breakaway type are outlined as are some of the utility pole users' objections to this approach. Described is a joint industry effort to minimize the utility pole safety problem through awareness and selective elimination of hazardous conditions.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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All wood utility poles require an effective maintenance program to ensure safe and reliable service. The end of a wood utility pole's useful life can be attributed to several factors including decay, mechanical damage, weathering and changing design circumstances that require the pole to be modified. Pole life can be extend through an effective preservative treatment and maintenance program, but at some point, all poles will reach a point when they are no longer suitable for their intend use. With the increasing cost of quality wood for use in poles, and the environmental concerns regarding pole disposal and chemical treatment of existing poles, new methods are required to restore and maintain wood poles. A research program was initiated at the University of Manitoba's Civil Engineering Composites Facility to develop a repair and restoration technique for wooden poles using fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP) to extend their useful life. Twenty-seven 3050-mm poles were tested as cantilevers under static loading. The experimental results showed that the repair techniques developed for restoring wood poles were successful in restoring fully the original installation strength. The program also included the development of finite element models used to predict the behavior of FRP-rehabilitated utility poles. Equations were also developed to assist in the design of the FRP-repair.
Author: Robert Duncan Coombs Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230462554 Category : Languages : en Pages : 66
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...brackets, riveted to the outer stiffeners of the bridge. This construction was considered advisable as the line had to cross two railroads, one heavy high-voltage line on tall towers, and several very important telephone and telegraph systems, and 1 Subsequently wrecked by a very severe sleet-storm. there was not enough space available between the existing power and telegraph systems. In making such attachments to bridges, and to some extent to any foreign structures, the construction must be accessible without interference with other interests, and at the same time be free from the probability of injury by foreign workmen. CHAPTER VIII CONCRETE POLES Wood poles had and still have certain advantages; they also have certain disadvantages. Some of the good points cannot be duplicated in concrete, but on the other hand, some of the objectionable features can be eliminated. Therefore, omitting undue enthusiasm on the one hand and any pretensions to magic excellence on the other, the matter is purely and simply one of final cost and final efficiency. It is self evident that concrete poles can be made, and it is fairly well known that a few thousand have been made and are now in service. The only remaining considerations seem to be ones of mechanical efficiency and actual or proper cost. The question of mechanical efficiency is in reality combined with that of cost. Given time-and money enough there are few structures which cannot be constructed, even by an amateur. Economical construction is another matter, and by economical is meant true economy--final economy--not merely reduced first cost. Thus, in the case of pole construction, we find that some have been built at a low initial cost but with an equally low mechanical efficiency, while...
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