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1. Introduction: 1
What is PEPSICO? 1
Business Segments 1
Frito-Lay 1
Pepsi-Cola Company 2
Tropicana 3
2. Company Analysis: 4
External Analysis 4
PEST Analysis: 4
Porter?s Diamond: 5
Five Forces 8
Internal Analysis 9
Porter?s Value Chain 9
Boston Consulting Group 12
Financial Analysis 13
Strength 14
Weakness 14
Opportunities 14
Threats 15
3. Conclusions 15
Marketing 15
General 15
4. Recommendations 16
Bibliography 17
Appendix 17
Appendix I 17
Appendix II 17
Appendix III 17
Appendix IV 17
Appendix V 17
Appendix VI 17
1. Introduction:
What is PEPSICO?
PepsiCo is one of the most successful beverage and snack food business in the world. The company consist of: Frito Lay Co., Pepsi-Cola Co., and Tropicana Products.
Brief History of PEPSICO
PepsiCo was funded in 1965 by Donald M. Kendall Pepsi-Cola president, and Herman W. Lay, president of Frito-Lay.
Caleb Bradham, a New Bern, N.C. pharmacist, created pepsi-Cola in 1890. Frito-Lay, Inc. was formed by the 1961 merger of the Frito Company, founded by Elmer Doolin in 1932, and the H. W. Lay Company, founded by Herman W. Lay, also in 1932.
In 1998 PepsiCo acquires Tropicana Products from Seagram Company Ltd. Anthony Rossi founded Tropicana in 1947.
Business Segments
Frito-Lay, Inc was funded in 1961, by merging of The Frito Company and H.W. Lay Company.
Today, Frito-Lay brands account for 40% of the world, snack chip industry, and 56% of the U.S. industry.
Often, Frito-Lay Company products are known by local names (Matutano in Spain, Walkers in the United Kingdom and others.)
Major Frito-Lay Company products:
- Lay's Potato Chips
- Baked Lay's Potato Chips
- Ruffles Potato Chips
- Doritos Tortilla Chips
- Tostitos Tortilla Chips
- Baked Tostitos
- Santitas Tortilla Chips
- Fritos Corn Chips
- Cheetos Cheese Flavoured Snacks
- Rold Gold Pretzels
- Funyons Onion Flavoured Rings
- Sun chips Multigrain Snacks
- Cracker Jacks
- Chester's Popcorn
- Grandma's Cookies
- Munchos Potato Chips
- Smart food Popcorn
- Baken-ets Fried Pork Skins
- Frito-Lay Dips & Salsa
- Sabritas Potato Chips
- 3D's
- Smiths Potato Crisps
- Walkers Potato Crisps
Pepsi-Cola Company
Caleb Bradham founded pepsi-Cola in 1890. Brand Pepsi and other Pepsi-Cola products account for nearly one-third of total soft drink sales in the United States, a consumer market totalling about $58 billion.
Outside the United States, Pepsi-Cola beverages are available in about 160 countries.
Today Pepsi-Cola products account for about a quarter of all soft drinks sold internationally. The company has also established operations in the emerging markets of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Russia, where Pepsi-Cola was the first U.S. consumer product to be marketed.
Pepsi-Cola provides advertising, marketing, sales and promotional support to Pepsi-Cola bottlers and food service customers. This includes some of the world's best and most recognized advertising. New advertising and exciting promotions keep Pepsi-Cola brands young.
Pepsi-Cola Company products:
- Pepsi-Cola
- Diet Pepsi
- Pepsi One
- Mountain Dew
- Slice
- Mug Root Beer
- Mug Cr?me
- All Sport
- Lipton Teas (Partnership)
- Aquafina Water
- Frappuccino Coffee Drink
- Mirinda
- 7UP (outside the U.S. only)
- Fruit Works
- Pepsi Max
Anthony Rossi founded Tropicana in 1947. The company entered the concentrate orange juice business in 1949, registering Tropicana as a trademark.
In 1954 Rossi pioneered a pasteurisation process for orange juice. For the first time, consumers could enjoy the taste of pure not-from-concentrate 100% Florida orange juice in a ready-to-serve package.
The company went public in 1957, was purchased by Beatrice Foods Co. in 1978, acquired by Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts in 1986 and sold to The Seagram Company Ltd. in 1988. Seagram purchased the Dole global juice business in 1995. PepsiCo acquired Tropicana, including the Dole juice business, in August 1998.
Today, Tropicana is the world's largest marketer and producer of branded juices with products available in 50 countries worldwide.
Tropicana products:
- Tropicana Pure Premium
- Tropicana Season's Best
- Dole Juices
- Tropicana Twister.
- Hitchcock
- Looza
- Copella.
2. Company Analysis:
External Analysis
PEST Analysis:
The Pest Analysis identifies the political, economical, social a technological influences on an organization.
Political influences:
- The production distribution and use of many of PepsiCo product are subject to various federal laws, such as the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act ad the Americans with Disabilities.
- The businesses are also subject to state, local and foreign laws.
- The international businesses are subject to the Government stability in the countries where PepsiCo is trying get into (underdeveloped markets).
- The federal, state, local and foreign environmental laws and regulations.
- The businesses are also subject to de taxation policy in each country they are operating.
- They also have to comply with federal, state, local and foreign environmental laws and regulations.
Economic influences:
- The companies are subject to the harvest of the raw material that they use in their snack foods, soft drink and juice, like corn, oranges, grapefruit, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
- Because of they rely on trucks to move and distribute many of their products, fuel is also an important subject, so they are subject to the fuel prize fluctuation, and to possible fuel crisis.
- Operating in International Markets involves exposure to volatile movements in foreign exchange rates. The economic impact of foreign exchange rates movements on them is complex because such changes are often linked to variability in real growth, inflation, interest rates, governmental actions and other factors.
- PepsiCo is also subject to other economical factors like money supply, energy availability and cost, business cycles, etc.
Sociocultural influences:
- PepsiCo and moreover Pepsi is subject to the lifestyle changes, because of it bases her advertising campaigns in a concrete kind of people with an special lifestyle, it is for that PepsiCo has to pay a special attention on the lifestyle changes.
- Particularly in the United States Pepsi drinkers are very defined, there is a kind of people who drinks Pepsi another kind who drinks Coca-Cola, it is for that they have to pay attention to the social mobility for not losing a possible market.
- Taking into account that PepsiCo is trying to introduce itself in underdeveloped markets, they have to be careful with the possible problems with the governments of this countries, and with the problems could rise from PepsiCo act with the people of this countries.
Technological influences:
- PepsiCo is subject to new techniques of manufacturing, for their three business sectors, snack food, juices and soft drinks.
- It has to pay attention to the new distribution techniques.
- And they have to fix their attention in the competence developed, to know about the new products.
Porter?s Diamond:
The Porter?s Diamond Analysis tries to explain the Competitive Advantage of Nations. There are four attributes of a nation comprise Porter?s Diamond of national advantage, they are:
Factor Conditions:
The basic factor conditions are natural resources, climate, location, the more advanced factor conditions are skilled labour, infrastructure and technology.
There are some of these factors that can be obtained by any company (like unskilled labour and raw materials) and, hence, do not generate sustained competitive advantage.
Even though, we have to take into account that specialized factors involve a heavy and sustained investment, we have to know that if we are able to achieve them, we could generate a competitive advantage.
Some of the factor conditions PepsiCo has to take into account, in each country where they want to introduce are
- Unemployment.
- Interest rate. (Short term, long term).
- Labour legislation.
Demand Conditions:
We have to know that the nature of a country demand makes PepsiCo dependent on them.
For example if in one country exists a sophisticated demand, these customers pressure firms to be competitive. Is for that, firms that face a sophisticate domestic market are likely to sell superior products because the market demands high quality and a close proximity to such customers enable the firm to better understand the needs of the customers, in the same way it is easier spread their firms in the global market.
Some of the demand conditions PepsiCo has to take into account en the countries where they want to introduce are:
- Expectation of customers.
- Competitive research (trends)
- And with competitors are established in the country.
Related and Supporting Industries:
For any company it is really important the Related and Supporting Industry. Knowing who are the range of suppliers, and the related industries, is necessary for deciding where we have to place our company.
In some cases the concentration of related and supporting industries provoke the concentration of the similar industries in the same areas. Some advantages and disadvantages of locating close to your rival may be:
Some advantages to locating close to your rivals may be:
o Potential technology knowledge spillovers,
o An association of a region on the part of consumers with a product and high quality and therefore some market power, or
o An association of a region on the part of applicable labour force.
Some disadvantages to locating close to your rivals are:
o Potential poaching of your employees by rival companies and
o Obvious increase in competition possibly decreasing mark-ups.
Firm Strategy, Structure & Rivalry:
Concerning to the strategy and the structure of the firm, they would be conditioned by the tradition of the country. There are different management styles in each country, and besides they vary depending on the industry.
PepsiCo has to study the different styles of management, for acting in the best way in each country, adapting its strategy and its structure as far as possible.
As far as possible the rivalry, in general is better the national than the international. In the case of PepsiCo (Pepsi); for them it is more advisable that when they are introducing in a new market, its main rival (Coca-Cola) not be positioned or at least it is not to absolute leader of the market.
Five Forces
We do the same analysis for the three different markets of PepsiCo: the soft drink market, the snacks market and the chilled orange juice market. We treated the three markets as a the same industry, with some exceptions as the competence
The threat of entry
Established brands with a lot of experience in the market that a have a good channel of distribution. The brands deliver the products directly to the supermarket, this means that is necessary a big company structure (lorries, warehouses, producing plants, etc.) to arrive at retailers and supermarkets, all of this requires a big investment of money.
Well looks that at first sight, suppliers are not a problem because it?s easy to find potatoes, corn and oil suppliers. The problem that we find here is the possibility of variability of prices in the raw materials caused for example by a bad year of harvesting, or there is another petrol crisis. Also in some countries that have not petrol normally fuel petrol is more expensive and the fuel suppliers have an oligopoly of the market.
Considering that buyers are the final consumers, we can say that in this markets the consumers get used at one kind of taste, and they have this products for the importance of the brand, it?s a marketing issue as well.
In these three markets is quite difficult to find substitutes. More than substitutes we can talk more of fashion, trends, or costumer?s tastes. Suddenly people stop has orange juice for breakfast and take more milk or coffee in mornings. It?s quite difficult to find a substitute for these products because normally the people get used at one kind of taste of cola for example, then is very difficult to try to adapt the public to a new cola.
Competitive Rivalry
Well these three markets are really full of rivalry.
First there is the Cola market where Coca-Cola owns an incredible 51% market share, followed far away Pepsi with a 21% of market share, is very difficult to penetrate in this market.
Then there is the Snack market where Lays have the 40% of market share, the second most important brand is Procter &Gamble (P&G), in this market the shares are more distributed, but still being two majors competitors that have most of the market.
An at the last we have the orange Juice market, this maybe is the most open market, there is a lot of competence and there is not a major brand that controls all the market. There are three important brands that have more market share, like Tropicana Coca-Cola Company and Chiquita.
Internal Analysis
Porter?s Value Chain
Primary activities
Inbound logistics
Because the company is in a competitive environment is not possible to recover the increasing costs with a higher pricing of the final products. For this reason PepsiCo have special way to purchase the raw materials. They use ?futures contracts? for cover different fluctuation in the raw material market (Primarily oil, corn, fuel, etc.) is like speculate with the market.
In Orange juice products, they only use non-concentrate orange juice for creates a very tasty and healthy product completely natural.
Pepsi they just create the liquid that is sold to the bottlers, these bottlers then they can the liquid and then is sold to the costumers. PepsiCo owns at same time shares from the four bottlers companies. In fact in the past PepsiCo owned Pepsi Bottling Group, and had as a franchise Pepcom industries INC companies.
Outbound logistics
PepsiCo use the system ?direct store distribution?. This implies that PepsiCo products are delivered to the retailer and put it directly to the shelves, this provide a great business control to PepsiCo, and reduce work to the retailers and that fact give more advantage over most competitors.
Marketing and sales
This is a very powerful tool that PepsiCo use. It would be developed in another chapter.
We can consider that the service that makes PepsiCo value is the ?direct store distribution? explained before.
Support activities
Here PepsiCo uses economies of scale.
Also the raw materials are bought in future contract to prevent higher costs in the future because the high prices of the raw materials.
Technology development
More than Technology development we can talk of costumer preferences. Is very important to know what the costumers prefers and wants, then is necessary to study the costumers? behaviour. For example Tropicana Twister shelf-stable juice products had a very important volume growth because the PepsiCo relaunched the brand in 1.75 plastic bottles instead of smaller glass bottles. This provides to the costumers more value and convenience.
Human resources management
Benefits At PepsiCo's Worldwide Headquarters
Highly competitive salaries
? Bonus opportunities at many levels
? Eligibility for stock options for almost all positions
Flexible benefit options include:
? Medical
? Dental
? Vision/Hearing
? Life Insurance
? Accident Insurance
? Long-Term Disability Insurance
? Group Legal Services
? Health Care Reserve Account
? Dependent Care Reserve Account
Stock Options.
The PepsiCo stock option plan is called SharePower. Here are some of the details:
? Once eligible, you receive PepsiCo stock options normally each year based on at least 10% of your prior year's earnings.
? Share Power stock options let you purchase shares of PepsiCo stock in the future at a set price.
? You make money if the stock price goes up and you stay with the Company.
? The longer you work for the Company, the more stock options you get.
Share Power is one way for PepsiCo employees to share in the success that they create.
Future Financial Security
A Pension Plan fully paid for by the Company.
? A 401(k) Plan which allows you to save up to 15% of your pay on a pre-tax basis and invest in any publicly traded stock or bond or in any of over 200 mutual funds.
? A stock purchase program, allowing you to purchase PepsiCo stock through payroll deductions, with no fees or commissions.
Additional Benefits
In addition, PepsiCo's portfolio of benefits includes such valuable programs as:
? Tuition Reimbursement
? Educational Loans
? Discount Car Purchase Program
? Matching Charitable Contributions
? Adoption Assistance
? Vacation Time
? And More
Firm infrastructure
Executive officers
Co-Founder PepsiCo
Corporate Officers (Roger A. Enrico)
Principal Divisions and Officers
Pepsi-Cola Company
Frito-Lay Company
Tropicana Products, Inc.
Boston Consulting Group
a) Frito-Lays; this product is a Cash Cow for PepsiCo; it generates more cash than it needs to maintain its share market. Frito-Lays is the leader of its market, and it has its principal competitor very far in the market share. PepsiCo should maintain this product, in the same way, and invest its profits in other company products.
b) Tropicana; it is a question mark for PepsiCo, it is, due to, it is a new acquisition, and although it is a product leader in its market, PepsiCo has to invest in Tropicana for achieving a bigger market share, and for trying to increase the international market share.
c) Pepsi; it is very difficult place to Pepsi, in one of the squares, because in spite of it generates more cash than it needs to maintain its share market, it is not the leader of its market, and we can neither considerate it as a star product, because of the same reason, them it probably could be place, in the middle of the matrix.
Financial Analysis
PepsiCo had reduce the total net sales in 2,000 millions $ during the 1999, this was due to PepsiCo sold the bottling company. But at same time the total sales from the three Business (Snacks, Soft Drinks, Orange Juice) had increase in 4,000 millions $. This means that the company his growing in the markets.
Because the selling of the bottling Company the total cost and expenses reduced in 2,000 millions of $. Because the reduced costs and the growth of the net sales in the Snacks, soft drinks, and Orange juice, the company had at the end of the 1999 more profit. (Source: 1999 Annual report of PepsiCo)
Resuming PepsiCo had in 1999 a total net income of 2,050 millions $ more or less the same as at 1997 (2,142 millions of $), but with the difference that in 1999 they stop earning money with the bottling company. This means now the company generates more profit. (Source: 1999 Annual report of PepsiCo)
Is necessary to emphasise as well that PepsiCo reduced a lot one of the big loans that he had due to PepsiCo didn?t has the necessity of borrowing money. The loan had an amount of 4,53 millions $ and was reduced to 1,55 millions $ in 1999. (Source: 1999 Annual report of PepsiCo)
As the PepsiCo?s Web page said:
PepsiCo's earnings per share jumped 17% in the third quarter ended September 2; to $.40 from a pro forma $.34 in the prior year, the fourth consecutive double-digit gain. Revenues grew 7% to $4.9 billion, reflecting strong volume growth in worldwide snacks and juices. Operating profit grew 12% to $826 million as every division generated double-digit growth.
Roger Enrico, chairman, said: "Four consecutive quarters of double-digit EPS growth confirm that PepsiCo today is strong and getting stronger. We are fulfilling our goal of delivering healthy earnings gains generated by volume growth across our portfolio?.
This means the company is going well but is not offering more dividends to the shareholders, after some bad years now the company is having n important growing. And this will be reflected in the dividends during the next years.
PepsiCo nowadays it is a very strong Company with no financial problems, and with three important brands. Where Frito-Lays is a very Strong brand, World leader in sells in the world snack chip industry, with a 40% of the market share. (Source 1999 PepsiCo Annual report)
In the last 3 years the company had increase his sales (without bottling operations) in a 33% since 1997. (Source 1999 PepsiCo Annual report)
Pepsi maybe is one of the weakness of PepsiCo, due that is really far away from the leader Coca-Cola in the international market. Pepsi-Cola is the second largest soft drink Company with a 21% of volume, far from the terrific 51% of volume of Coca-Cola.
The net sales of PepsiCo had increase in the last 3 years, this is important but is necessary to say that is due the increase in sales only in USA, PepsiCo didn?t growth so much in the international market, what is happening then that only growing in USA.
New markets are beginning to open in the world (China, mainly in Asia).
The opportunity to enter in the markets where the competence is not established yet.
For example in China, China is the country with more population in the world, enter in the Chinese market and establish there before the competence arrive can give to PepsiCo a great opportunity to success in the future.
The problem that in these new markets the products of PepsiCo will not have a good welcome by the Asian consumers. The flavours of the products are not really adequate for these countries.
Roger Enrico will leave the direction of PepsiCo in 2 years, this can create a little situation of panic inside the Company.
The increase the prices of the raw materials or the fuel can cause an increase of the costs, and in the business environment that PepsiCo live is not possible to increase the product price because is a very competitive environment.
3. Conclusions
Until now PepsiCo brand image was very linked to Pepsi image, which has label of second best brand.
But in the last four years, that has changed, they have tried to lost the label of ?loser?, linking its image to the rest of firms company, that have a strong brand image in their markets. They have achieve that through advertising campaigns where appeared together with other PepsiCo Brands.
During the last decade Pepsi had a war with Coca-Cola, in which Pepsi always lost. In the last stage (since the arrival of Enrico) PepsiCo decides move away from that war, for focusing in its own problems.
Another step in the new strategy was the acquisition of the leader companies in related markets, for achieving a new image of powerful and consolidated corporation.
In other way PepsiCo is giving a corporation image, which is committed with subjects like racial and sex discrimination, and environmental problems. All that through the special programs focused on each area.
In the last four year PepsiCo has suffered radical changes in its internal structure and in its market strategies.
All these changes were propitiated by the arrival in the direction of R. Enrico, who implemented a radical change in PepsiCo?s mentality.
He made very important decisions like to come off the restaurants (Pizza Hut & KFC) and the bottlers, due to they were a heavy weight for the company.
Although they were come off them, they follow linked to PepsiCo through strategic alliances, it is to say, that the restaurants still sell PepsiCo products and the bottlers follow bottling Pepsi. Moreover PepsiCo has a minority percent of share of these companies.
Other important decisions that Enrico made were the strategic acquisitions of leader companies in related markets, like Tropicana and Mountain Drew.
These acquired companies have given to PepsiCo as much profits as stronger company brand image of New PepsiCo.
4. Recommendations
After analysing PepsiCo we have noticed that in spite of the company has increased its net product sales, that is not a real increase because the sales have increased due to the new acquisitions, and not because of the increase of the products, which already existed in the company. For this reason we recommended that, they should consolidate its old product and try to increase they sales.
Another section, where we would like to make a recommendation, it is into the international section of PepsiCo, we think that they are too focused in the U.S. (although it is true that it is the market where they have biggest volume of sales), but they should try to consolidate in the international markets, and as well to try to penetrate in undeveloped markets, where its competitors are not established yet (i.e. Chinese market).
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Richard Koch (1995) Guide to strategy. Ed Financial Times Pitman Publishing
G. Johnson & K. Scholes (1999) Exploring Corporate Strategy. Ed. Financial Times Prentice Hall
J.L. Thompson (1997) Exploring Corporate Strategy.
PepsiCo Annual Report (1999)
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Appendix III
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Portland State University. Department of Electrical Engineering.
First Advisor
Malgorzata E. Chranowska-Jeske
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Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Decision trees, Electronic circuit design, Cellular automata, Field programmable gate arrays
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1 online resource (viii, 77 p.)
This thesis presents a new technique for mapping combinational circuits to Fine-Grain Cellular-Architecture FPGAs. We represent the netlist as the binary tree with decision variables associated with each node of the tree. The functionality of the tree nodes is chosen based on the target FPGA architecture. The proposed tree restructuring algorithms preserve local connectivity and allow direct mapping of the trees to the cellular array, thus eliminating the traditional routing phase. Also, predictability of the signal delays is a very important advantage of the developed approach. The developed bus-assignment algorithm efficiently utilizes the medium distance routing resources (buses). The method is general and can be used for any Fine Grain CA-type FPGA. To demonstrate our techniques, ATMEL 6000 series FPGA was used as a target architecture. The area and delay comparison between our methods and commercial tools is presented using a set of MCNC benchmarks. Final layouts of the implemented designs are included. Results show that the proposed techniques outperform the available commercial tools for ATMEL 6000 FPGAs, both in area and delay optimization.
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Victoria Beckham has been criticised by a top Land Rover executive for claiming she designed one of the firm's cars.
Design director Gerry McGovern, 61, launched a special edition VB Evoque car, which Victoria, 43, said she styled with her husband David, 42, in mind, at a presentation in China in 2012.
According to editors at Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper, speaking at a publicity event last week Gerry said, "I've forgotten more than that woman (Victoria) will ever know about (car) designing - to be a car designer takes years."
At the 2012 press launch the singer turned fashion designer said, "'I've designed a car that I want to drive, a car I think David wants to drive."
Gerry accused the star of deviating from a planned script, saying, "When we went to China to present it, she stood up in front of the world's press and said, 'When I designed this car...' I said, 'Victoria, that wasn't on the script.'"
Her claims infuriated the car designer who reportedly added, "I didn't want to work with her after that."
The $105,000 (£80,000) VB Evoque car featured matte paintwork and leather seats with 'rose gold accents' inspired by Victoria's watch.
A spokesperson for the car company moved to cool the dispute, telling the Mail on Sunday, "The three-year project was completed in full by both parties and was a huge creative success around the world. Mrs Beckham remains part of the Land Rover family."
A source close to the star also denied she had tried to take credit for designing the car telling the Daily Mirror, "Of course Victoria never claimed to design the car, that would have been ridiculous and disrespectful to the car engineers. She designed a limited edition interior and that interior was clearly discussed time and time again in all the global media that went hand in hand with the car's launch."
The Beckham family were at the centre of a royal row earlier this month (Jul17) after David posted pictures of his daughter Harper, six, at a private tea party hosted by Britain's Princess Eugenie at Buckingham Palace on Instagram.
The event was criticised by social media users and an ex-royal official, who called it "a nonsense".


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Summary for Project title: R8513: Promotion of current knowledge on pests of coffee in East Africa.
Coffee growers in East and Central Africa can now refer to an up-to-date manual to help identify and control insect pests and diseases. Coffee contributes significantly to national economies in the region and, directly and indirectly, provides a living for millions along the coffee growing, processing and marketing chain. Coffee wilt disease, coffee berry disease, coffee leaf rust, coffee stem borer and coffee berry borer are just a few of the problems that growers encounter. So, identifying pests and diseases correctly and knowing how to deal with them is crucial. This manual provides descriptions of pests and advice on how to control them. Coffee scientists in East Africa now use the manual and it's also available on the internet.
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OK, I admit I can be a bit wordy at times, and that may not suit every reader. But, that aside, what bugs me is this acceptance of the idea that we shouldn't write longer communications, articles, etc, because people won't read them.
Why should a writer simply accept that things should be 'short and sweet', and anything else is not going to be as effective?
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A Sierra Leone court in Freetown has granted a request by a member of the ruling party for an injunction to delay a presidential election run-off scheduled for Tuesday.
The party member, Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, filed for the injunction on Thursday, saying there was evidence of electoral fraud that needed to be investigated before the poll could go ahead.
No new date has been set, even as former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan arrived the country for an observer mission.
Jonathan, who is leading the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) Election Observation Mission, arrived Freetown on Friday .
Mr. Ikechukwu Eze, the spokesman to the former president, said Jonathan also led EISA to the first round of the elections on March 7.
In the elections, none of the candidates polled required 55 per cent of votes to win at the first ballot.
EISA had declared the process of the March 7 general elections as peaceful and credible.
Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio, of the Sierra Leone People's Party – briefly a former military junta leader – will be running against Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress, after neither of the two front-runners secured an outright majority in the first round.
The largely peaceful nature of the election, and the fact that outgoing President Ernest Bai Koroma is willingly stepping down, is seen as a sign of how far Sierra Leone has come since a 1990s civil war characterised by the mutilation of civilians, the sale of conflict diamonds and the widespread recruitment of children as militia fighters.
But tensions over alleged fraud in some districts, and complaints of police harassment against the electoral commission, have marred the process. (NAN)
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NEW YORK, NY – December 09, 2013– Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, today announced that its year-long partnership with CAST, a leader in software analysis and measurement, has resulted in delivery of superior quality application services to its customers, across industry sectors.
Wipro's 'AppInsight Center of Excellence (CoE)', powered by CAST, is boosting application quality to the next level. Designed for large organizations with complex IT landscapes, AppInsight CoE assesses the structural quality of applications and provides critical insights into application resiliency, performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities. This is highly relevant in today's technology environment, where most IT solutions are implemented by integrating a set of custom and industry standard solutions. CAST provides a single integrated platform to discover software flaws across these diverse solutions.
With a strong focus on application quality, Wipro has adopted Total Quality Index (TQI) as the primary metric to monitor its project deliverables. During the last year, Wipro has utilized CAST analytics on project sizing and structural quality to significantly improve the TQI of critical systems. As one of the industry's firsts, Wipro is now able to baseline and benchmark structural quality of applications across verticals to further reduce software risk and total cost of ownership (TCO) for its customers.
Bhanumurthy B M, Senior Vice President, Business Application Services, Wipro, said: "Wipro's partnership with CAST is a strategic one and we consider it to be an important asset in our application services portfolio. This partnership has enabled fact-based insight into the state of systems and processes and demonstrated faster and predictable delivery, thereby improving software health and resiliency for our customers."
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FG Launches Rapid Result Initiative For Better Health
The Federal Ministry of Health has launched Rapid Result Initiative programme tagged "Better Health for all" designed to produce quick and visible impact that would affect the lives of every Nigerian, especially the most vulnerable and poor in the society.
The Launch of the programme portrayed preparedness and determination of the Federal Ministry of Health to kick-start the operations of the programme to achieve result within 100 days.
While briefing the press, on Monday, 18th July, 2016 in Abuja, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole said that the set targeted goals are ambitious, but certainly do-able and would keep the top management of the Federal Ministry of Health on their toes in the next 100 days of implementation.
He said that the rapid result initiative would be deployed in seven major areas that would conform with both local and international health priorities which are as follows:
- Revitalization of Primary Healthcare Centres, under which Prof. Adewole said that Federal Ministry of Health would work to revamp 110 primary health care centres (PHCs) within the next 100 days, one in each senatorial district including a facility in Fuka Local Government in Niger State. The Minister said that Fuka community suffered high case fatality from Lassa fever due to cultural interpretation of the cause of the disease. "During my unscheduled visit to FUKA, I noticed that there was no functional PHC to offer basic health care and I promised that Federal Government will provide a functional facility; today as we speak, the Fuka PHC is ready for commissioning", the minister said.
- Mutual Health Assurance: The Minister said that the Ministry would inaugurate Mutual Health Associations at community level to improve access to affordable and qualitative health care. The Mutual Health Associations are either privately or publicly incorporated body registered by the National Health Insurance Scheme solely to access health care service through health care facilities accredited by the scheme, he explained.
- Treatment of 200,000 Severely Acute Malnourished Children: While speaking on malnourished children in North–east, the Minister said that rapid response initiative would focus on treating 200,000 severe acute malnourished children who are under five years of age in the North-east region of the country.
- Surgical Intervention Component: Adewole further explained that 10,000 surgeries, including herniorrhaphy, cleft lip, and palate repairs, myomectomy, hysterectomy, Vescico-vagina Fistula (VVF) amongst others would be carried out in 46 federal tertiary institutions for indigent Nigerians.
- Operating the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control: The Minister said that the initiative was to have at least one laboratory in each geopolitical region including the Federal Capital Territory. The designated Hospital as Laboratories were University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, University Of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Borno State, University of Enugu Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Jos University Teaching Hospital and Asokoro/ Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital FCT.
- Screening of Nigerians for Major Diseases: The Minister said that the Ministry would partner with Novo Nordisk to screen about 500,000 Nigerians for diabetes and they would be appropriately referred to facilities that would cater for their needs if that warranted.
- Transparency and Accountability: Adewole added that the Media and Publicity component of rapid response initiative would be on ground to engender trust and accountability through media campaigns and close monitoring of the programme to ensure that quality services were provided to the people as promised.
The Minister of Health disclosed further that all the above mentioned services and interventions will be provided to the members of the public free of charge.


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HCR-4,Box 168 Waverly, Virginia 23890
As if it isn't bad enough that myself and about 15 or 20
friends and neighbors are constantly hunting tractors for me, my
wife has to go and find another. Only this one is a rare bird, at
least in these parts-a Dart Blue Jay.
My wife was attending the funeral of her great-aunt in Enfield,
North Carolina, when she spotted what she thought was a Fordson in
front of an old garage. Upon inspection, she noticed the name Dart
on the radiator.
When she got back home she told me about it and, mildly
interested, I decided to look it up in The Encyclopedia of American
Farm Tractors by C.H. Wendel. After reading what he had to say, I
decided this tractor had possibilities. So we traveled the 70 miles
back to Enfield. Tractor rough, but not too bad. Engine appeared to
be stuck, a few missing parts-the usual.
We made some inquiries and found out who owned the tractor, but
he couldn't be located that day, so we phoned him when we got
back home. He was undecided about selling. We arranged to meet him
to look at the tractor. Back to Enfield again to find out a few
things about the tractor.
The tractor had been in his family for years-prior to that it
was a rental tractor. That's all he knew. My wife's cousin
said the tractor was sitting in the same spot' when he had left
town 37 years ago.
After much discussion, the owner finally decided to sell-the
price was out of my league, but not really unreasonable,
considering, but I decided to let it sit.
To make a long story short, I figured he was willing to sit
longer than I was, so we made arrangements and I bought the
Upon arrival home with our prize, I started poking and prying. I
tried pulling on the crank again; nothing. So I decided to jump on
it-uh oh! Something broke. To my relief, it was only the water pump
coupling. This turned out to be a revelation: I would never have
known that the engine was free if the coupling hadn't
I put oil in the cylinders; compression was good, and here's
the 'kicker.' I cranked the engine and all four plugs
fired-without cleaning the points in the magneto, after at least 40
years sitting in the weather. This is not a dry climate in these
As I looked it over carefully, I found that this tractor
contains more brass parts than any I've seen. The original
steering wheel, seat, and water-type air cleaner are missing, as
well as the radiator cap. The original gas tank is there, but
beyond repair. Radiator has beautiful designs, on both the front
and the sides, and is in perfect condition. Enclosed is a picture
my wife has drawn of the 'Dart' emblem that's cast into
the front of the radiator.
The engine is a four cylinder Buda. The tag says 'Buda the
Engine' Model YTU. The carburetor is a Zenith, patent date
December 23, 1908. Transmission is by Cotta Transmission Company,
Rockford, Illinois, Patent September 21, 1909. It has one reverse
and three forward speeds. Brake is brass, hand operated in center
of tractor. It has a simple channel iron frame. Rear wheels are
pressed steel-no welds. The serial number plate is intact: number B
206, Model TY.
This is about as far as we have gotten on this tractor, but we
plan to get it running and, hopefully, restored. Anyone who owns
one of these tractors, or has any information-PLEASE, contact me. I
have never run across anyone who has ever seen or heard of a Dart
Blue Jay.


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We were certainly flying near the sun last week, when the leitmotif of this contest was Oprah's Book Club. Yes, indeed, my wax wings felt a little melty when tackling that august—Augustan?—personage. Luckily for the eschatological metaphor we're working with, the winner was Moses!
This week, we'll concern ourselves with earthly things. It was a hot summer when I read every tell-all autobiography ever written by a New York Yankee. And while some of the more recondite aspects of Mickey Mantle's beaver-shooting technique passed over the head of my ten-year-old self, my fondness for sports books—and their attendant vulgarity—has never waned. Below are details from the covers of four quite informative books, each about a different sport. What are they? E-mail us with your answers: the author of the first fully correct response will win a 2009 New Yorker desk diary whose utility is being measured out in fewer and fewer coffee spoons.
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Good morning everyone, I hope you're full of positive energy and ready for the Christmas rush 🙂 It is also busy on my side but for another reason: I signed for a new job! As you may know or not I an totally not related to the fashion industry and this blog is for pure pleasure but I had the opportunity to join a great company and work again with someone I appreciate a lot so here I am. As well I will travel a « little » more again and in 2018 I can already plan trips to US and Canada 😉
So what's the link with this post? It comes … as I had to write a resignation letter and being a lazy person I decided to plug an old backup drive to find my previous resignation letter and use the « search and replace » function to be ready in 30 seconds. But but but … being also a curious person I browsed the content of that drive and I found the first (?) collection of heels I started in …. 2010!
So I think it's really retro heels that I propose here to you 😉 I am very curious to read your reaction about those pictures! In the meanwhile have fun and read you soon xx


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COPENHAGEN, Saturday, 4 February 2017.
A demonstration for Freedom, anti Islamisation & anti the steadily growing dictatorial tendencies of the European Union. This is what one of the demonstration participants had written: "The American left wingers are now so deeply involved and occupied by defending Islam and Muslims. They had stopped thinking in a rational way. They try to extinguish fire at the universities by stopping giving meaningful criticism and stop debating on sensitive subjects. A classic example concerning the freedom of speech take now place at the university of Berkeley in California where riots take place now.


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Earl wants to know, " Can you show me how to tape my mountain wheels to run my tires tubeless, and is there anything special that goes in to taping an extra wide rim?"
Taping a mountain wheel to go tubeless is pretty simple. The only issue you may have is finding a tape that covers the entire inner rim channel, what with rim widths getting greater and greater. Here are a few tips for making sure you get a good seal from the tape on any rim.
Start a few inches above the valve hole and work down around the wheel while initially holding the end of the tape in place. You'll want to have a good amount of tension on the tape so it contours to the rim surface. I always do two full rotations around the rim, and finish a few inches past the valve hole on the opposite end from which you started.
When it comes to a wider rim where the tape doesn't reach the edges, you'll have to change the process slightly. I'll still start above the valve but will favor one side of the rim channel. As you make your way around, stay to that side but be sure you're still covering the spoke holes in the center. Once you get to the starting point by the valve, transition the tape to the other side of the rim and continue around again. This time you'll want bias the coverage to the side opposite the first rotation. Once again, be sure you are covering the spoke holes in the center of the rim. Once you get back around after the second rotation, finish on the opposite side of the valve hole. Push your valve through the tape, mount the tire, add sealant, inflate and hit the trail!


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Terry is a registered nurse and midwife and has worked in a wide variety of hospital and community settings in the UK. She is a former Senior Midwifery Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a former Supervisor of Midwives. She has over fifteen years' international programme management experience in development, conflict, post conflict and complex emergencies in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Burundi, DRC and Lesotho.
Terry has worked at the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health since 2012 and was the Country Lead for the Making it Happen programme in Bangladesh and Pakistan. She has recently completed a consultancy with the GFA/GIZ Muskoka Porject in Cambodia where she set up five EmONC skills laboratories in Kampot, Kampong Thorn, Kampong Speu and Kep and provided training and mentorship for the trainers and managers.
Currently Terry is involved in a project conducting an evaluation of South Asia's current Community Health Worker (CHW) policies and support systems post-Astana as awell as a project based in Kenya to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths.
She also led the first multi-disciplinary skills drills Emergency Obstetric Care Training in Sri Lanka and is the in-house lead for the LSTM Life Saving Skills and Essential Obstetric Care.
In 2015, Terry was the recipient of the Wellbeing of Women/RCM International Fellowship Award.
Terry is a member of the Research Ethics Committee, Quality Management Committee and a STEM Ambassador at LSTM
PhD Research What is the scope of practice and work load of midwifery cadres in low and middle-income countries using Bangladesh and Malawi as case examples?
This research uses mixed methods to examine the role, responsibilities and work practices of midwifery cadres e.g. midwives and nurse-midwives in low and middle-income countries. A survey was used to collect data on the scope of practice, work load and job satisfaction of the midwifery cadres and qualitative data using diaries, key informant interviews and focus group discussions to identify helpers and challenges to providing quality midwifery care in these settings.
Supervisors: Professor Nynke van den Broek and Dr Barbara Madaj
Terry is an experienced teacher in midwifery and public health from community to postgraduate level. She regularly teaches on the Master's modules, the Diploma for Tropical Nursing, the Diploma for Sexual Reproductive Health and the Diploma for Tropical Medicine and Health and supervises Master's students on their dissertations.


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This isn't the be all end all blog design. No sirreeee. I had gotten so many emails that my blog was hanging (mostly IE users, finally including my own husband) that I decided to bare-bones it and build from there.
Allied turns 6 in a couple of weeks. There are lots of things in life I have a hard time believing. That's one of them.
P.S. PLEASE let me know if the page is loading better (or loading at all for some of you) now that I took off some of the more questionable elements. We'll see what I can get back on without compromising the speediness and general UserGeneratedFriendliness of this here blog.


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President Trump Signs Two Executive Orders to Speed Approval of Fossil Fuel Projects
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Wednesday aimed at expediting the process for the construction of pipelines and other fossil fuel projects, by limiting states' authority over building projects and expanding executive power.
Long frustrated by regulators in states like New York and Washington, who have blocked gas and coal projects citing environmental and health concerns, Trump is seeking to limit states' ability to participate in the permitting process. His first order directs the Environmental Protection Agency to review a section of the Clean Water Act that requires state approval for the construction of fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens protected waters.
Trump's second executive order transfers authority for the construction of international pipeline's from the secretary of state to the president. Previously, approving such projects required a lengthy review by the Department of State. The order will also make the shipping of natural gas easier when a pipeline can't be used by instead utilizing motor or rail vehicles for transport.
Speaking at the International Union of Operating Engineers International Training and Education Center, in Crosby, Texas, Trump thanked the audience of engineers—a key part of part of his voter base—and vowed to end the "war on American energy," according to NPR.
These most recent executive orders are the latest in a long list of actions the Trump administration has taken in support of fossil fuels:
- This week, the Trump administration has renewed its interest in auctioning off Florida's coastal waters for oil and gas drilling.
- Last week, the president took aim at renewables, claiming that wind turbines cause cancer. (They don't.)
- Last month, Trump issued a new presidential permit to expedite action on the Keystone XL pipeline. It is now being challenged in court.
- In 2017, Trump signed two executive orders, reducing conservation of public lands and expanding oil drilling in the Arctic (the second of which was recently declared unlawful by Judge Sharon L. Gleason of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska).
And many key players in Trump's administration are beholden to oil interests. As Jared Keller reported in Pacific Standard last year, the Dirty Deputies, a database run by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a non-partisan policy institute, has documented 64 ties within the Trump administration to the fossil fuel industry and the Koch brothers. Many officials have previously lobbied for the oil industry themselves or have received money from oil interest groups. Trump's current nominee for the Department of the Interior, David Bernhardt, is a former energy lobbyist who is set to be confirmed on by the Senate on Thursday.
Environmental groups were quick to criticize the administration's latest attempts to bolster the fossil fuel industry. "President Trump is curtailing the public's voice in an attempt to force dirty energy projects on communities across America," Joshua Axelrod, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council told the New York Times. "Pipelines like Keystone XL pose dangers to our water, our farms and our climate."
It is widely accepted in the scientific community that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming and has widespread health impacts. The Union of Concerned Scientists, notes that all fossil fuels emit harmful air pollutants when burned, and, according to the World Health Organization, 93 percent of children around the globe "breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk." The impacts of burning fossil fuels disproportionately impact children, people of color, and poor communities.
States have already begun to push back against Trump's most recent action, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who criticized the orders as a "gross overreach" of executive power. Jay Inslee, Washington governor and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, issued a joint statement with state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, stating, "We intend to challenge any attempt by the administration to illegally constrain Washington's authority to protect our state's natural resources."


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The movie version of the DC Universe is having a pretty big Comic-Con, but The CW's little corner of the vigilantism world won't let itself be completely pushed out of the spotlight. Over the last couple of days, the network has released new information on all three of its superhero shows—Arrow, The Flash, and the upcoming Legends Of Tomorrow—that gives us some interesting glimpses of their future.
First up is Legends Of Tomorrow, the Arrow/Flash spinoff show that features a team of good guys and bad guys working together to stop a big villain. As reported by Deadline, executive producer Greg Berlanti said it was his chance to "do an Ocean's Eleven-type show," which is most likely a reference to the idea of a bunch of people with various skills workings toward one goal, and not a reference to Captain Cold, The Atom, and Hawkgirl trying to rob a casino. Speaking of Hawkgirl, Deadline also says that her manly counterpart, Hawkman, will also be making an appearance in the show at some point. The backstory of the Hawkpeople is complicated and often contradictory, so let's just say that she's a girl with wings and he's a guy with wings.
Moving on to The Flash, The CW put out a press release saying there will be a couple of new faces on the show when it comes back for its second season: Shantel VanSanten (The Messengers, One Tree Hill) will be playing Patty Spivot, a police officer who is "obsessed with metahumans" like The Flash, and Teddy Sears (Masters Of Sex) will be playing Jay Garrick, a guy who comic book fans will recognize as the original Flash. Garrick's appearance was foreshadowed in the season one finale when a mysterious hat flew through The Reverse Flash's time portal, and it's going to be very interesting/confusing to see how they explain who he is. Oh, and speaking of confusion and The Reverse Flash (yes, we're using the same transition), next season's big bad will be Professor Zoom, a longtime comic book villain who is sort of the same guy.
As for Arrow, star Stephen Amell made some comments back in May that implied he wouldn't be wearing the Arrow suit when the show came back for its fourth season. He was just being coy, though, and we now know that his comment was actually a reference to the Arrow getting a new costume this year. The CW put out a press release that reveals the new suit (which you can see below), and it looks like Oliver will be ditching the green leather of the original for one that's more tactical and battle-ready. Speaking of new costumes (hat trick!), ComicBook.com is reporting that David Ramsey's John Diggle—Arrow's lovable sidekick/an occasional background character with no lines—will be getting a superhero suit of his own during the next season. That suit is basically just a leather jacket, some gloves, and what's being called "a crime-fighting helmet," but there aren't any official shots of the final design yet.
The Flash will return on October 6, Arrow will return on October 7, and Legends Of Tomorrow will premiere during midseason.
Apple AirPods Max
All colors on sale today
Gizmodo describes these premium headphones as "annoyingly incredible." having praised the headphones' stellar sound quality, comfort, active noise cancelation, and integration with other Apple products. The steep price is the annoying part, but luckily you can make them slightly less annoying by picking them up now for $70 off.


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NRA's political donations small compared to MoveOn.Org
Answer: MoveOn.
And it isn't even close.
In the last two election cycles, MoveOn.org Political Action Committee spent more than $58 million in pro-Democrat political advocacy, according to Federal Election Commission records.
In just the 2006 election cycle, MoveOn.org spent $27 million in advocacy to elect a Democratic majority in Congress and used its formidable fund-raising clout to propel numerous Democratic challengers to House and Senate victories. By comparison, the NRA PAC donated $11 million in 2006.
"They give away and raise about three times as much as the National Rifle Association," said Massie Ritsch, communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics. "A tremendous amount of money, especially when you consider how quickly they came on the scene."
Thanks to Robert Aldridge for sending me this.


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The first ALUMAX-ULTIMATE was installed in Turkey in 2007 and had a diameter of 24 m. Beginning from then ATECO has been supplying many ALUMAX-ULTIMATE in a various diameters from 3 meters to 100 meters.
Cost effective and easy to install system, which could be used in new or old tanks. Each ALUMAX-ULTIMATE is in accordance with your requirements.
Saves up to 99% of product evaporation. Product savings depend on the stored product, the diameter of the tank and the total turnover per year.
When was the first ALUMAX-ULTIMATE made?
The first ALUMAX-ULTIMATE was installed in Turkey in 2007 and had a diameter of 24 m. Beginning from then ATECO has been supplying many ALUMAX-ULTIMATE in a various diameters from 3 meters to 100 meters.
What does the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE cost?
ALUMAX-ULTIMATE is a cost effective and easy to install system, which could be used in new or old tanks. Each ALUMAX-ULTIMATE is in accordance with your requirements. You will be pleased to see how economic environmental protection could be.
How efficient is the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE?
ALUMAX-ULTIMATE saves up to 99% of product evaporation. Product savings depend on the stored product, the diameter of the tank and the total turnover per year.
What is the estimated pay-back period of ALUMAX-ULTIMATE?
This depends on value and volatility of the stored product. This could be 16 months for refined products.
Why are there legs fitted to the underside of the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE and are they permanently in position?
These legs are fitted to let the tank operators to gain access to the tank bottom when the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE is lowered. These legs are permanently fitted, they go up and down with the ATECODECK and are usually located such the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE could be lowered to rest on the tank floor, just above the tank shell manhole. These legs are available in an adjustable version, so the operator could determine the minimum height of the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE himself.
Can internal tank maintenance work be carried out with the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE installed?
Certainly! ALUMAX-ULTIMATE is lowered onto its legs and if burning work is to be carried out, properly protected, then most maintenance work could be carried out from the top of the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE. If heavy equipment has to be located on ALUMAX-ULTIMATE then the load should be distributed over as many of the legs as practical using scaffold boards.
Is ATECODECK compatible to all products?
ALUMAX-ULTIMATE is made from aluminium, which is perfectly compatible with most stored products. Besides, we could supply all stainless steel or a combination of aluminium and steel materials to suit any requirement.
Is the seal between the tank shell plates and the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE advisable for all types of stored product?
Before the preparation of our proposal for ALUMAX-ULTIMATE we should know the stored product so that we could ensure all the material used to manufacture the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE including the seal is compatible with the stored product. If in later stages the tank is used to store a different product we recommend that the operator contact ATECO with details of the new product and we will advise if any modifications are required to the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE or the seal.
Is there a minimum or maximum diameter of tank which could be fitted with a ALUMAX-ULTIMATE?
There is not any limitation on the maximum diameter of tank which could be fitted with ALUMAX-ULTIMATE. Depending upon the stored product (low SG) there could be some difficulties to overcome the buoyancy for the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE if the tank diameter is less than 3,000 mm.
Why does ALUMAX-ULTIMATE use 8" floaters and not 10" like some competitors do?
The advantage of using the smaller diameter of floatation tube is that the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE takes up less space in the tank and therefore maximizes the volume of the stored product. Also the vapor space under the ALUMAX-ULTIMATE is smaller than with larger diameter floaters.
Key Benefits
- Alumax -Ultimate Aluminium Floating Roofs have been successfully protecting storage tanks and reduced evaporation for years. This success is attributed to the advanced design and high quality of Alumax-Ultimate, combined with experienced installation personnel.
- Structural design meet or exceed all known standards for internal floating roofs, in particular the requirements of API Standard 650, Appendix H. It can also be supplied to meet the requirements in Germany, laid out in the TRbF-Regulation.
- Main interconnecting grid structure has a high strength-to-weight ratio, using contamination free and corrosion resistant aluminum alloy tubular pontoons and extruded channel beams. These flotation pontoons and structural members provide maximum flotation and strength capable of withstanding loads generated by product turbulence and inspection personnel.
- Ultimate roofs are known for their rugged construction, durability and efficiency. They are lightweight, corrosion resistant and virtually maintenance free.
- Ultimate's peripheral rim and deck penetrations isolate and trap product vapors, preventing their escape into the atmosphere. Several types of primary and secondary seals including stainless steel mechanical shoe primary seals are available, all of which are designed to accommodate wide variations in the tank shell and the rim space.
- All Ultimate components are designed to pass through the existing shell manway, thereby eliminating additional expense and downtime required to create other access openings. Since the roof parts are pre-fabricated and partly pre-assembled, installation time is reduced to a minimum, resulting in less tank downtime.
Design Features
- Completely assembled without welding and can fit through a 20 inch manway, allowing for much faster installation and quicker tank turnaround.
- Also available in a hybrid (stainless steel/aluminum) design, as well as in a complete stainless steel design, when there are compatibility restrictions to use the aluminium design.
- Reduces the common failure modes of skin and pontoon roofs by reinforcing the pontoon gussets and end caps through a unique design. The addidional use of tube saddles ensures equal load distribution on to the floats at the structural interfaces.
- Uses a peripheral rim profile made from a specially designed large size extrusion. It is designed with the strength to support both primary mechanical shoe seal and a secondary seal without additional modifications.
- Uses floats made of seamless 210mm diameter tubes , with a thickness of 2 mm and a maximum length of 5600mm.
- Has a support structure designed for a sheet width of 1500 mm and a pontoon spacing of 3000 mm.
- Uses PTFE (Teflon™) insulators on the aluminum legs to insulate from the carbon steel tank floor. This prevents the common issues associated with dissimilar metals.
- Only uses stainless steel bolts and nuts in their constructions.
- Offers a large variation of seal designs to suit various custumers requirements.
- Can be cable suspended from either cone roof tanks or geodesic dome roofs. This option allows roof height adjustments to be completed from the outside of the tank . With no leg structure under the roof, cleaning inspection and repairs to the tank bottom are simplified.
- Offers a large number of accessories to meet all operational requirements designed by experienced and dedicated Alumax -Ultimate engineers


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Welcome to the Fellowship! It is our great joy to meet you and to share with you about all the good things God is doing in our church family. For over twenty years it has been our mission to love God, love others, and Serve the world. That means that no matter where you find yourself today, where you have come from, or where you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome. It is our desire to come alongside to inspire, equip, and encourage you in your journey of faith.
Here's all you need to know before you show up for your first Sunday morning: Come as you are. Join us for a time of singing, teaching and prayer. You won't need a suit, you won't need a manual. Jesus simply says: "Come to me"... nothing else needed.