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NEW YORK — Within the first three and a half months of opening, the National September 11 Memorial had more than one million visitors. The 9/11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993. At the heart of the memorial are enormous twin reflecting pools, which are set in the footprints of the Twin Towers and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in North America. Bronze parapets inscribed with the victims’ names line the perimeter of the pools....More

Conbraco Industries Inc. introduces the most recent addition to its Apollo brand: Apollo Fire Protection System Solutions (FPSS). The fire protection fittings were previously sold through Elkhart Products Corp. Both Conbraco Industries Inc. and Elkhart Products Corp. are Aalberts Industries companies....More

MORTON GROVE, ILL. — Dozens of Chicago area fire inspectors participated in a "Live Burn" demonstration, held here at Xylem’s Little Red School House, March 17, 2012. Two side-by-side units were set on fire, and despite high winds that day, the burn demonstration was successful....More

Star Pipe Products Ltd., a leading supplier of ductile iron pipe-fittings, which are used in municipal water systems around the United States, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it conspired with the two other largest manufacturers to increase the prices at which pipe fittings were sold nationwide....More

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) made news last year when the organization pointed out that we need $2.2 trillion in infrastructure spending to keep roads, bridges, dams, inland waterways, rail lines and so on from collapsing around us. ASCE gave both water supply and wastewater grades of D-....More