Stationery & Commodity Blog

A clotheshorse (often written as two words, i.e. clothes horse), also known as a winterdyke, a clothes maiden, or a drying rack, refers to a frame (usually wooden, metal or plastic) upon which clothes are hung after washing to enable them to dry.

There are many types of drying racks, including large, stationary outdoor racks, smaller, folding portable racks, and wall mounted drying racks. A drying rack is similar in usage and function to a clothes line. The name clothes horse was in use by 1800.

In contemporary use, a well known fashion blogger goes by the name of theclotheshorse as Clothes Horse may also refer to a person excessively or obsessively interested in clothes, often to a humorous extent.

An aluminum beverage bottle, also known as a bottlecan, is a bottle made entirely of 100 percent recyclable aluminum that holds beer, soft drinks, alternative beverages and wine.

History & Overview
The aluminum beverage bottle was introduced to the North American beverage industry in 2002 as an ecological alternative to plastic bottles. Hermitage, PA-based CCL Container a subsidiary of CCL Industries, a leading producer of recyclable aluminum bottles, packaging, aerosol containers and other specialty products, started developing the bottlecan in 1989 in North America.

Products
Two Japanese brewers, Sapporo Brewery of Tokyo and Kirin Brewery Company, officially introduced the aluminum beverage bottle in 2000 in Japan.
Pittsburgh Brewing Company was the first brewer to launch a beer product in aluminum packaging. In 2004, it introduced Iron City Premium Lager in an aluminum beverage bottle. The company shipped 20,000 cases to distribution centers in 30 states and these initial units sold out within 24 hours of hitting the shelves. A photo of the Iron City aluminum bottle was the “most viewed” photo on Yahoo! the day following its launch and it was named one of Business Week’s “Best New Products of 2004.”
Alternative drink provider, Snapple, launched Mistic RE, its first energy drink, with a resealable, rocket-shaped aluminum bottle.
Coca-Cola marketed two new Powerade brand energy drinks in bullet-shaped, screw-top aluminum bottle cans.
Heineken introduced its H2 brand in an aluminum bottle in 2004.
Anheuser-Busch doubled its production capacity of aluminum bottles in 2005 for its Bud Light, Budweiser, Michelob Lager, Michelob Light, Michelob ULTRA and Anheuser World Select brands. The company has also introduced limited edition bottlecans that commemorate popular holidays and sports events.
In Japan, over two billion recloseable bottle cans are sold each year.
Vicor International, Inc., Canada’s largest marketer of wine and spirits, and Denmark-based Absolut Spirits Company, adopted the aluminum beverage bottle for their vodka-based beverages.
In the Dominican Republic, Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana, the Dominican National Brewing Company, moved their premium products to aluminum beverage bottles.
Bright Brothers, a Portugal-based winery, was the first company to introduce wine in aluminum bottles.

Characteristics & Advantages
The aluminum bottlecan is made of 100 percent recyclable aluminum similar to that of an aluminum beverage can. However, it is shaped similar to a traditional beverage bottle, with many designs including resealable lids. A broad range of aluminum beverage bottle profiles, styles, and configurations, are available for commercial production, including “traditional,” “oval,” and “sport shapes.”

A variety of standard finishes are available for aluminum bottlecans that are designed to work with industry standard closures and caps, in addition to standard bottle filling operations. Some traditional finishes include: 26mm standard crown cap, 38mm lug finish, 38mm continuous thread with plastic sleeve, 38mm ROPP and 28mm continuous thread finishes.

Beverage marketers choose aluminum bottlecans for many reasons, including that they are resealable, recyclable and durable. The bottle itself serves as the label and bottles can also be shaped in a variety of ways.

“Cooler Longer” Claim
A study conducted by engineering science students at Loyola College in Maryland suggested that the liquid content of aluminum bottles stays slightly colder than the liquid content of glass bottles when allowed to warm at room temperature. These results were not corroborated by a 2005 study at Bucknell University, which found that “the fluid in the aluminum bottle cools much faster than the glass bottle, and once removed from a cold source and exposed to room temperature, the glass bottle remained cooler longer than the aluminum bottle.” This conclusion is consistent with the fact that the thermal conductivity of aluminum (237 W/(m·K)) is significantly higher than that of glass (1.1 W/(m·K)). While the glass versus aluminum debate may make sense in connection with beer bottles, soft drinks are another matter. The majority of those bottles are currently plastic, while most beer bottles are glass.

Fabrication
Aluminum is a silver-white, soft metal and the most abundant metallic element, comprising 1/12th of the earth’s crust. It must be combined with oxygen and other elements and processed to produce the aluminum used in bottlecans. Bottlecans are made from 100 percent recyclable aluminum through either an extrusion or coil-to-can process to a wide range of shapes and sizes. They are produced with three times the aluminum of a traditional beer can, which provides for increased insulation.

Now we’d like to tell all of the world today.We have already invested and researched a new products.Called Micro Electric Vacuum.It’s small,pocketable,multifunctional,convenient.We think it will be very popular in the future market all of the world.We design lots of styles for different purposes and market.Such as Micro Dust Collector for Blackboard,Micro Dust Collector for Automobile,Micro Dust Collector for Computer, Micro Dust Collector for Household, etc. We wormly welcome sincere client to be our regional agents. we will provide you the best service under the premise of reciprocity and mutual benefit.

Welcome to visit our special website:http://www.go-stationery.com/Micro-Electric-Vacuum-c187.html to see the detailed information.

As the globle economy impacted by the seriously financial crisis.How can we face the problem we never experienced?How can we get through the crisis?And what’s right attitude to the actuality and future? How we can seize the opportunity in the hard time? Those questions need to be answered by every responsible enterprise. YUANZHAN, Plays an important role in the international trade in
NingBo city.Now decided to run true to form to persist in optimism, positive attitudes.Cause we trust darkness will past eventually,and the sunrise comes out one day. We hope every enterprise should never be pessimistic.Because today is ruthless,tomorrow is ruthless too.The day after tomorrow will be fine and nice.So our dear friends.Wish we can Hold Hands together to face everything.Lets trust:Tomorrow will be bright.

YUANZHAN IMPORT&EXPORT(NINGBO)CO.,LTD is a firm with business scopes in international trade, and plays an important role as a professional manufactory & trading in China.

Founded in 2000, with a business history of over 8 years, the Company has been growing constantly ever since. We are concentrated to being the largest and most professional stationery suppliers, office suppliers and daily use necessities commodity suppliers.

Our stationery products include Ballpoint, Notebook, Pencil, Pencil sharpener Ruler, utility knife, alarm clock, white board, white board eraseDartboard,Dart, Rope skipping, File older, Stapler, Stapler-remover,Scissors, Transparent tapes, Photo frame, Photo album, Notepaper, CD box,Coin bank, Glue, Penholder, Compasses,Clips,Pensil box, Wastebin, Terrestrial globe, Wallet, Book end etc-

Our daily necessities products include Non-woven shopping bag, Non-woven storage box, Woven bag, pp woven shopping bag, pp shopping bag, PE shopping bag, bathing curtain, clock supply, Egg beater, Multifunctional dying racks, Scale, Peeler, Cup, Pocket Organizer, Hander warmer, Foot warmer, Solid perfume, Solar gift, Crystal rose gift, Cake mould, Camping lantern, LED book light, manual flashlight, Rechargeable flashlight, Solar flashlight, Ice bucket, Ice crusher, Ice tongs, Mixologist bottle,Flagon set,Wine flagon, Wine opener, Wine stopper, cigarette case, craft knife, Aluminium bottle,etc..

YUANZHAN IMORT&EXPORT(NINGBO)CO.,LTD also offers agent service for import and export business, joint venture and cooperation business, processing industry and compensation trade, and entrepot trade. we keep adding new products for the betterment of its range,so please keep visiting our website for the latest market information. We hope that surfing our website will be a pleasure and we would be glad to receive your feedback.

we acquired good work at the end of the 2007,The Company has succeeded for several consecutive years in the export/import volume of more than 150 million US dollars.

We sincerely welcomes customers both at home and abroad in close cooperation for mutual benefits.

Visit our website:www.go-stationery.com
We will provide you the best service.

A binder clip is a strip of stainless sheet steel bent into the shape of an isosceles triangle with loops at the apex. Tension along the base of the triangle forces the two sides closed, and the loops prevent the sharp steel edges from cutting into the paper. The loops also serve to hold two pieces of stiff wire, which serve as handles and allow the clip to be opened. The two slots cut in each loop are shaped so that the wire handles can be folded down once the clip has been attached, and the spring force of the wire holds them down on the surface of the paper. This holds the clip relatively flat, for easier stacking of paper. One handle can also be folded down while the other remains ups to allow the stack of papers to be hung up. The handles can also be removed altogether by squeezing them sideways and pulling them out, allowing for more permanent binding. As compared to a paper clip, the binder clip is able to bind sheets of paper more securely, and is also resistant to rust.

There are several sizes of binder clips, ranging from a base size of 9 millimetres (0.35 in) to 50 mm (1.97 in). The sheet steel portion is customarily painted black, with the handles chrome plated, but a variety of decorative color schemes are also available. The sheet steel portion is usually made of stainless steel, but can also be finished in nickel, silver or gold.

A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. In other words, copper is copper. Rice is rice. Stereos, on the other hand, have many levels of quality. And, the better a stereo is, the more it will cost. The price of copper is universal, and fluctuates daily based on global supply and demand..

One of the characteristics of a commodity good is that its price is determined as a function of its market as a whole. Well-established physical commodities have actively traded spot and derivative markets. Generally, these are basic resources and agricultural products such as iron ore, crude oil, coal, ethanol, salt, sugar, coffee beans, soybeans, aluminum, rice, wheat, gold and silver.

Commoditization occurs as a goods or services market loses differentiation across its supply base, often by the diffusion of the intellectual capital necessary to acquire or produce it efficiently. As such, goods that formerly carried premium margins for market participants have become commodities, such as generic pharmaceuticals and silicon chips.

Originally the term “stationery” referred to all products sold by a stationer, whose name indicates that his book shop was on a fixed spot, usually near a university, and permanent, while medieval trading was mainly ambulant, by peddlers (including chapmen, who sold books) and others (such as farmers and craftsmen) at non-permanent markets such as fairs. It was a special term used between the 13th and 15th centuries in the Manuscript culture.

Though decreasingly popular in western culture, stationery has been an important part of good social etiquette, particularly since the Victorian era. Some usages of stationery, such as sending a manufactured reply card to a wedding invitation, has changed from offensive to appropriate. Many of these social guidelines may have been defined by the manufacturers of stationery products themselves, such as “Crane’s Blue Book of Stationery” showing so much influence by Crane & Co. that the company name is included in the title, though written by an independent author.

The usage and marketing of stationery is a niche industry that is increasingly threatened by electronic media. As stationery is intrinsically linked to paper and the process of written, personalized communication, many techniques of stationery manufacture are employed, of varying desirability and expense. The most familiar of these techniques are letterpress printing, embossing, engraving, and thermographic printing (often confused with thermography). Flat printing and offset printing are regularly used, particularly for low cost or informal needs.