Reading Bakery Systems installed the two-zone convection oven in its RBS Science & Innovation Center. 

Researchers at Purdue University have identified a way that the brittle nature of ceramics can be overcome as they sustain heavy loads. 

A manufacturer of consumer products will use a Tenney brand environmental walk-in chamber for during product research and development.

Charmed by the snaggletooth grin of the beaming Girl Scout on Facebook, I ordered cookies again this year. There she was, in all of her prepubescent glory: my friend’s daughter, a proud Junior Girl Scout, hoping to sell hundreds of boxes in support of her troop. 

Just before the New Year, I read an interesting statistic: the New Year’s Eve holiday would mark the only time in 200 years when all of children in the world (at least as we in the U.S. define them) would have been born in the 21st century while all of the adults on the Earth were born in the 20th century.

It’s funny sometimes how life’s little coincidences come together. Not long ago, I traveled with friends to Lincoln, Neb., to see the Wisconsin Badgers play the Nebraska Cornhuskers. 

Lindberg/MPH shipped a three-zone tube furnace with a maximum temperature of 2192°F (1200°C) that will be utilized for technical research and development.

As fate would have it, the first article I ever worked on for Process Heating related to heat transfer fluids. “Check Your Fluid Before It Checks Production” appeared in our May/June 1995 issue, and it focused on the common tests that are performed on industrial heat transfer fluids to determine whether a fluid changeout was needed in a system.

As I prepared this column, the 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley was approaching. I’ve loved Elvis as long as I can remember, and his RCA 2-LP album from the early ’70s serves as the soundtrack for my childhood. (You can take the girl out of the Midwest, but you can’t take the Midwest out of the girl.)