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To: richardred who wrote (2637)	12/6/2006 1:19:54 PM
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nice uptrend

To: richardred who wrote (2637)	12/26/2006 8:15:29 AM
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07:55ET APNewsAlert TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Meteorogical Agency says the earthquake off Taiwan had a prelimary magnitude of 7.2 and that a 3-foot high tsunami is headed for the east coast of Philippines 08:12ET Taylor Devices trading up 7% pre-mkt on tsunami report (TAYD) 6.07 :Co sells seismic dampers, which are designed to ameliorate the effects of earthquake tremors on structures [©Briefing.com] 08:15ET Pre-Market Gappers :Gapping Up: FFHL +12%, SCLN +10%, TAYD +10%, CLWT +7.6%, FLIR +6%, ITMN +3%, SGMS +2.9%, MPEL +2.5%, SYX +2.4%, BTU +2.2%, Under $3: EPCT +24%... Gapping Down: SIGA -9.6%, ESCL -6.2%, MAMA -4.6%, WABC -2.5% [©Briefing.com]

To: richardred who wrote (2637)	4/2/2007 11:15:24 AM
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Added shares recently Area firm makes dampers to protect bridge in China Taylor Devices in North Tonawanda made eight shock absorbers, each weighing 10 tons By David Robinson NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER Updated: 04/02/07 6:53 AM How do you protect the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge from being damaged in an earthquake or a typhoon? Chinese engineers think they found the answer in North Tonawanda, where Taylor Devices is preparing to ship the first of eight giant dampers that will be installed on the 1,190-yard-long Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River. The engineers plan to place four of the dampers — essentially large shock absorbers capable of absorbing 2.2 million pounds of force — around each of the bridge’s two towers, near where they connect with the deck. The idea is to have the dampers absorb the force generated by an earthquake or a typhoon, instead of the bridge, thereby sparing the span from serious damage, said Douglas P. Taylor, the North Tonawanda company’s chairman and president. “What you’re doing is making the damper absorb the energy, instead of the building or the bridge,” Taylor said. Building dampers for the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge was no small job for Taylor Devices, which in the 1990s made dampers to protect what then was the world’s tallest building in Kuala Lumpur from wind damage. Each damper is 24-feet long when fully extended and weighs 10 tons. They are the biggest dampers that Taylor Devices has ever designed or produced, and Douglas Taylor said he isn’t aware of any bigger ones made by anyone else. “These may well be the biggest shock absorbers ever built,” he said. The gray dampers were customdesigned by Taylor Devices to work with the plans of the bridge’s architects, who felt that a few large dampers would look better in their bridge design than it would to use a larger number of smaller dampers. “That’s why they’re so big,” Taylor said. The dampers for the Sutong Bridge can handle about 70 percent more force than any shock absorber previously made by Taylor Devices. Taylor sees them as an extension of the technological improvements that the company has made since the shock absorber manufacturer began marketing its products as a way to protect buildings against earthquake and wind damage in the early 1990s. “That’s how you stay in business in a niche business,” Taylor said. “You have to design things that other people can’t do.” The dampers for the Sutong Bridge took about three months to design and a year to manufacture, Taylor said. Even though the company recently expanded its North Tonawanda factory so it could accommodate bigger products, the bridge dampers stretched Taylor’s facilities to the limit, since they are long enough to nearly reach the roof. The first four dampers were shipped out on Friday. The other four are expected to be shipped within a month. Taylor hopes the $1.6 million job will lead to more work in the booming Chinese market, but the bridge project already is a huge deal for a company that had just shy of $15 million in sales last year. “China is an amazing economy,” Taylor said. “They’re going through the great expansion we went through years ago.” drobinson@buffnews.com buffalonews.com