The tensile-strength test is within itself destructive; during the process of collating material, the sample is wasted. While this is not a problem when a decent sample of the sample material is available, nondestructive procedures are safer for materials that are expensive or difficult to create or that have been made into finished or semicompleted [...]
Good Reasons to Pay Your Suppliers on Time
December 21, 2008 – 10:30 pm
Many small businesses spend far too much time on debt collection rather than their core business. Over the last 2-3 months I’ve noticed an increasing lag in payment cycles.
If you are in any sort of operation that uses small businesses as service providers or product suppliers it’s well worth your while to pay your bills [...]