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The Tip is 'Don't procrastinate' For years I've been buying ink jet cartridges from a big box office supply store. These cartridges were made overseas and labeled with the well-known brand of a large American printer company. One I remembered a local store that advertised quality cartridges. I had traveled by this local store hundreds of times but never stopped. This time I stopped at the local store. To my surprise I discovered that they carried the cartridge I needed and it was a Made in USA cartridge. Made in Chicago, to be precise, and it was half the price of the imported ones I had been buying for years. The quality is exceptional and they last longer too. Who knew? After that experience, I make a point to stop at every store I can. By doing so, I've been finding more and more Made in America products. Occasionally the clerks don't know the country of origin; this can be discouraging but finding the origin information yourself isn't difficult I've come to realize. Believe it not, there are actually a number of computers made in the US including laptops made in the USA. When the label is not visibly displayed I use the other Made in America buying tips to help me find Made in US. If the store doesn't carry what you are looking for, use Made in America Secrets to find it and tell the manager about your experience at their store. If enough people are asking for Made in America products stores will begin to carry them. Buying Tip Continued - Read more on Made in America Products by Maze The World's Largest Variety of Specialty Nails Maze Nails, the largest division of W.H. Maze Company, is located in Peru, IL - just a mile from the Maze lumber yard. The nail mill, besides manufacturing a wide line of hand-driven nails, is now actively supplying nails to the pneumatic market. Visit our online nail and screw catalog Get to know us through our history Double-Hot-Dipped Zinc-Coated STORMGUARD? nails and Type 304 stainless steel 20-degree stick nails are being made and sold by Maze Nails for use in a wide variety of popular 20-degree framing nailers - for a wide array of exterior siding and decking jobs. Maze keeps substantial inventories of hard-to-find nails in stock, and boasts the most prompt shipment in the industry. The huge Maze Nail warehouse includes 50-lb. bulk nails for contractor use - and a wide variety of packaged nails is sold nationwide for use on popular merchandiser selections. These include 1-pound and 5-pound nail boxes in 25-lb. & 30-lb. masters. Maze Nails was first to offer small lot packing and color-coded labels. All three nail mills make many emergency UPS shipments daily - and look forward to continuing great customer service into the next millennium. Maze Nails controls the exclusive automated STORMGUARD? double hot-dipped galvanizing (HDG) process from start to finish on every single nail manufactured in our plant in Peru, IL. Maze STORMGUARD? double hot-dipped galvanized nails (HDG) meet and exceed the ASTM A-153 Class D specification for hot-dipped galvanizing. Maze has over 90 years experience in hot-dipping nails with an unmatched record for quality. Look for the nails in the bright yellow STORMGUARD? boxes?there is no equal substitute for the MAZE brand double hot-dipped nails! Maze Nails are the #1 preferred brand requested by professional builders, remodelers and contractors nationwide. Maze STORMGUARD? Nails are recommended for the new treated lumber. Not only are Maze STORMGUARD? double hot-dipped galvanized nails (HDG) made from highest quality domestic recycled steel, they are packaged in cardboard boxes made from recycled paper products, AND our waste zinc is recycled into useful materials used in paint pigments, car tires, etc. 91% of the steel in 100% Made-in-the-U.S.A. Maze Nails is made from steel scrap. Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), an independent third party evaluation and certification company, has certified that Maze STORMGUARD? double hot-dipped galvanized (HDG) nails have a minimum 85% recycled steel and zinc content. Maze STORMGUARD? double hot-dipped galvanized (HDG) nails are an environmentally preferable product so builders and remodelers seeking to comply with the LEED? (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Building Program will earn points in the materials and resources (recycled content), low emissions and/or local production categories. Maze Nails made from recycled steel! Maze uses only the highest quality domestic, re-melted steel. By using re-melted steel, the obvious environmental benefit is that no additional mining must be done to meet our steel demands and less steel is thrown into landfills. The scrap steel that we generate while making nails heads right back to the steel mills for re-melting... along with steel from scrapped automobiles, I-beams, radiators, etc. We re-claim most of the raw materials we consume, such as zinc, steel, and certain acids. Many nail manufacturers, including Maze, pickle their steel in an acid bath prior to making it into nails. After several years and hundreds of thousands of dollars, we now have a completely self-contained Acid Recovery Unit. The unit converts the harmful, spent acids into useful raw materials we then can offer to other companies. The ferrous sulfate which this equipment extracts, for example, is used in fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and even in snack foods. We use millions of pounds of zinc in our unique Double Hot-Dip Galvanizing (HDG) (STORMGUARD?) process. All of our waste zinc is recycled into useful materials - which are then used in paint pigments, car tires, etc. So, our zinc by-products are being utilized too. All Maze nails and spikes are packaged in cardboard boxes which are made from recycled paper products - and many of our price lists and literature pieces are printed on recycled paper too. Maze Nails has a strong commitment to using quality recycled materials whenever we can - and to insuring that our manufacturing process results in reclaimable products! So there you have it, the green side of Maze Nails. |
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