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Health And Safety Event Asia 2026 Shapes The Future Of Workplace Safety
Health And Safety Event Asia 2026 Shapes The Future Of Workplace Safety Registration has opened for the second edition of The Health & Safety Event Asia, and the organisers are betting that Singapore’s pull as a regional hub will turn a promising debut into a fixture. The show runs from 10...
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How Fixing Your Vehicle Could Help the Planet
How Fixing Your Vehicle Could Help the Planet When people think about helping the environment, they often focus on major lifestyle changes such as switching to renewable energy, reducing plastic use, or purchasing electric vehicles. While these are all valuable efforts, many drivers overlook one sur...
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4 Premier Aluminum Cabinet Door Frame Manufacturers Across America
4 Premier Aluminum Cabinet Door Frame Manufacturers Across America Not every aluminum cabinet door frame looks the same on a spec sheet, but the difference shows up fast on the shop floor. Aluminum Cabinet Door Frame Manufacturers vary widely in their ability to hold dimensional tolerances across la...
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Decoding Bitumen Specifications Around the World
Decoding Bitumen Specifications Around the World Why 60/70 in One Country Isn’t Always the Same in Another Bitumen specifications look deceptively simple until money is on the line. Globally, bitumen consumption was about 120 million tonnes in 2022, with most of it going into paving and roofin...
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Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026
Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026 There are worse ways to start a working week than watching a fleet of Volvo excavators and wheel loaders dance across a demonstration field in central Sweden, and I’ll admit the spectacle did its job. I’d landed...
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Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award
Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award When a German design jury hands out a Red Dot, it tends to reward the things buyers actually notice: the sweep of a surface, the feel of a cab, the quiet logic of a control layout. So it’s worth pausing on what Volvo C...
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Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future
Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that gets first dibs. The EWR150 Electric, a 15 to 17 tonne machine built to do everything its diesel twin...
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Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges
Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground and onto the machine. With the launch of Certifiable On-Board Weighing for i...
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Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite
Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let customers climb aboard. This year’s edition, the largest the company has ever staged, did ple...
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The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks
The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days 2026 in Eskilstuna it came mixed with the low growl of heavy machinery working hard. That’s wh...
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Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final
Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final The line-up for one of the construction equipment industry’s most demanding skills contests is coming into focus, and the names heading for Sweden this autumn tell their own story about where service talent is co...
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Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark
Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended range that’s rated for up to 700 kilometres on a single charge. For a segment that’s long...
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VolvoCE Celebrates the First SD120 Compactor in Thailand
VolvoCE Celebrates the First SD120 Compactor in Thailand When Volvo Construction Equipment handed over its first New Generation SD120 soil compactor in Thailand, the machine itself was only half the story. The delivery, completed through authorised dealer CHAIRATCHAKARN (Bangkok) Co., Ltd., known ac...
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VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites
VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and working through a full shift, without tripping the local grid or stalling the build, is where the real he...
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Ouster Brings Native Colour Lidar to City Traffic Corridors
Ouster Brings Native Colour Lidar to City Traffic Corridors Roadside detection has long leaned on a patchwork of cameras, radar units and inductive loops buried in the tarmac, each handling a slice of the job and each carrying its own maintenance bill. Ouster is betting that a single class of sensor...
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The Hidden Costs of Delaying Pavement Repairs
The Hidden Costs of Delaying Pavement Repairs Most pavement problems do not start with major failures. Instead, they begin as small cracks, minor surface wear, or isolated drainage issues that seem relatively harmless at first glance. Since the damage appears manageable, many property owners and fac...
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Best Practices for Managing Asphalt Repairs in Large Industrial Parks
Best Practices for Managing Asphalt Repairs in Large Industrial Parks Extensive industrial parks are under constant strain from heavy freight, forklifts, and delivery vehicles. This results in surface wear, causing logistics delays and safety risks. Since pavement conditions directly impact operatio...
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How to Choose the Best Austin Paving Company for Your Project
How to Choose the Best Austin Paving Company for Your Project It’s important to choose the right paving contractor for any property project, since doing so improves safety, appearance, and long-term value. This guide helps you understand what to look for when selecting a reliable paving company, so...
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The Role of Durable Ground Surfaces in Modern Business Developments
The Role of Durable Ground Surfaces in Modern Business Developments Modern business developments require more than attractive buildings and functional layouts. The quality and reliability of exterior infrastructure play a critical role in determining how effectively a property serves customers, empl...
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Taming The Power Surge Behind The AI Data Centre Boom
Taming The Power Surge Behind The AI Data Centre Boom The figures behind the artificial intelligence boom have a habit of creeping up on people. In 2023, data centres swallowed roughly 4.4 per cent of all the electricity consumed across the United States, drawing about 176 terawatt hours from the gr...
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Top RTA Cabinet Wholesalers for High-Volume Contractor Orders Near Phoenix
Top RTA Cabinet Wholesalers for High-Volume Contractor Orders Near Phoenix Most contractors near Phoenix have learned the hard way that low prices mean nothing when a shipment arrives damaged or two weeks late. Finding reliable top RTA cabinet wholesalers in a market flooded with overseas options is...
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The Bataan Cavite Interlink Bridge Could Rewire Luzon
The Bataan Cavite Interlink Bridge Could Rewire Luzon For years, getting from the industrial belt of Bataan to the factory towns of Cavite has meant a long, grinding detour through the most congested stretch of road in the Philippines. The two provinces sit almost within sight of each other across M...
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Snap-on Bets $100m on the Data That Keeps Heavy Equipment Running
Snap-on Bets $100m on the Data That Keeps Heavy Equipment Running Snap-on has rarely been a company that chases headlines, so a hundred million dollar cheque written in early June 2026 says plenty about where the tool maker reckons the money is heading. On 8 June the Kenosha firm closed its purchase...
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Architect Equity Bets on Circular Warehousing with Latest Acquisition
Architect Equity Bets on Circular Warehousing with Latest Acquisition A Los Angeles buyout firm has just bought one of the quieter cogs in the machine that keeps online retail moving. Architect Equity has acquired Material Handling Exchange, an Indiana storage specialist that designs, builds, buys b...
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Columbia River Dam Spillways Brace For A Generational Rebuild
Columbia River Dam Spillways Brace For A Generational Rebuild Chelan County Public Utility District has handed Tetra Tech the lead design role on a multi-year programme to rebuild the spillways at two of the Columbia River’s veteran hydroelectric dams, placing the engineering firm at the centr...
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New Jersey Turns Its World Cup Highways Into A Living Map
New Jersey Turns Its World Cup Highways Into A Living Map With the 2026 FIFA World Cup about to kick off across North America this week, the roads feeding into New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium have quietly become one of the most closely watched stretches of highway in the United States. On 9 June,...
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Best Budget-Friendly Plumbing Companies in Toronto for 2026
Best Budget-Friendly Plumbing Companies in Toronto for 2026 Toronto plumbing can cost you way more than it should. And that’s honestly the biggest frustration homeowners run into when a pipe bursts at midnight. Sorting through the best budget-friendly plumbing companies in Toronto means lookin...
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Methanol Moves Into the Engine Room
Methanol Moves Into the Engine Room Shipping sits in an awkward position in the global decarbonisation story. While road transport has gathered momentum around electrification and construction equipment is steadily exploring hybrid and alternative fuel pathways, marine transport continues to wrestle...
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Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled
Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled The default soundtrack of a construction site has, for decades, been the low rumble of a diesel generator. Walk onto almost any job site at dawn and you’ll hear one before you see a single tool swing. Lightship, the Broomfield-based electric mobil...
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Montréal Bets on AI to See Crashes Coming Before They Happen
Montréal Bets on AI to See Crashes Coming Before They Happen Montréal has put artificial intelligence at the centre of how it watches over its streets, switching on Derq’s INSIGHT platform across 100 intersections in what ranks among the largest deployments of its kind anywhere in North Americ...
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The Search for the Next Power Site Begins in Orbit
The Search for the Next Power Site Begins in Orbit A Singapore-registered startup spent the first week of June making a fairly bold argument to a room full of investors and operators: the reason so many clean energy projects never get built has less to do with money or politics than with the unglamo...
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The Crooked Logs That Could Rewrite Timber’s Rulebook
The Crooked Logs That Could Rewrite Timber’s Rulebook For as long as anyone in the trade can remember, a tree has had one job to earn its keep on a building site: grow straight. Anything that forked, curved or twisted as it climbed towards the light was quietly written off, sent to the pulp mi...
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Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in
Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in Canada sits on one of the world’s richest stores of underground heat, yet it generates barely enough geothermal electricity to register on a national balance sheet. A partnership unveiled on the opening day of the Wor...
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Brick in Architecture Awards Return for 2026 As Durability Becomes the Story
Brick in Architecture Awards Return for 2026 As Durability Becomes the Story The Brick Industry Association has thrown open entries for its 2026 Brick in Architecture Awards, and while a design competition rarely makes headlines in the same breath as a motorway scheme or a port expansion, this one c...
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Freight Becomes The Real Price Of Bitumen
Freight Becomes The Real Price Of Bitumen When a chokepoint at the mouth of the Gulf seizes up, most people picture petrol pumps and jittery stock tickers. Road builders feel it somewhere less obvious, in the price of the black, sticky binder that holds their highways together. Petroleum bitumen, fi...
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Multilateral Investment to Rebuild Entre Ríos Freight Roads in Argentina
Multilateral Investment to Rebuild Entre Ríos Freight Roads in Argentina The Inter-American Development Bank has cleared $280 million to overhaul provincial roads and urban access routes across Argentina’s Entre Ríos. The country’s federal government has spent the better part of two year...
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Procore Turns the Common Data Environment into a Launchpad for Agentic AI
Procore Turns the Common Data Environment into a Launchpad for Agentic AI Procore Technologies has pulled the wraps off a connected Common Data Environment built to keep a project’s digital record honest, from the moment a design gets signed off right through to handover. The construction soft...
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ADF Invests $60m to Reshape West African Benin-Togo Trade
ADF Invests $60m to Reshape West African Benin-Togo Trade When development bankers in Abidjan signed off on a loan for a stretch of road most of the world has never heard of, they were betting on something far bigger than tarmac. The African Development Fund, the concessional lending arm of the Afri...
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The Living Infrastructure Cooling Nearly 9,000 Cities Worldwide
The Living Infrastructure Cooling Nearly 9,000 Cities Worldwide City trees are pulling double duty as infrastructure, and a sweeping new global study has finally put a number on how much heavy lifting they do. Research led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and published in Nature Communications finds...
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AIIB Invests in the Philippines with $300m Port Finance
AIIB Invests in the Philippines with $300m Port Finance When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank put its name to a USD300 million loan for International Container Terminal Services Inc, the headline figure wasn’t really the story. Money flows into Asian ports all the time. What caught the...
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SewerAI Wins Backing to Tackle Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Gap
SewerAI Wins Backing to Tackle Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Gap A funding round that closed in early June has thrown a spotlight on one of the least glamorous corners of the built environment, the pipes nobody thinks about until something goes badly wrong. SewerAI, a Walnut Creek software firm tha...
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AI Data Centres are Quietly Reshaping the Water Measurement Business
AI Data Centres are Quietly Reshaping the Water Measurement Business When a developer of buried-pipe testing technology signs up to a water stewardship body, it would ordinarily be the kind of corporate housekeeping that slips past unnoticed. Electro Scan Inc., a Sacramento-based outfit that builds...
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Newfoundland Rock Now Underpins Tampa’s Growth
Newfoundland Rock Now Underpins Tampa’s Growth Florida builds fast, and it builds with rock it largely can’t dig out of its own ground. That awkward truth sat quietly behind a ribbon-cutting at Port Tampa Bay on 28 May 2026, where Cemex US and the port authority, with Tampa Mayor Jane Ca...
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England’s Bus Lanes Getting a New Set of Electronic Eyes
England’s Bus Lanes Getting a New Set of Electronic Eyes A US technology firm has just cleared the one hurdle that turns an ordinary city bus into a roving enforcement officer. Hayden AI, a San Francisco-based outfit that bolts artificial intelligence onto public transport fleets, has secured...
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When A Copper Mine Starts Trading Like A Currency
When A Copper Mine Starts Trading Like A Currency A trading agreement that slipped out quietly this week may end up mattering far more to the people who build, fund and police major infrastructure than its modest billing suggests. Perpetuals.com Ltd, a fintech group whose shares trade on Nasdaq unde...
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Railserve Wires Real Time Safety into the Industrial Railyard
Railserve Wires Real Time Safety into the Industrial Railyard The industrial railyard has always been one of the most unforgiving workplaces in the freight chain. Heavy steel rolls on steel, sightlines vanish behind strings of cars, and crews lean heavily on radio chatter and hand signals to keep ev...
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The Invisible Layer Wiring Up Latin America’s Hardest Places
The Invisible Layer Wiring Up Latin America’s Hardest Places When the region’s operators gathered at M360 LATAM in Mexico City, the easy headlines wrote themselves around satellites and smartphones. Look a little closer, though, and the more telling story sat quietly in the background, i...
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Acoustic Science Is Revealing Hidden Infrastructure Risks
Acoustic Science Is Revealing Hidden Infrastructure Risks For as long as crews have fretted over what’s lurking beneath a carriageway, the instinct has been the same: stand on the surface, point the kit downward, and hope the signal bounces back with something useful. That habit has held for d...
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Quantum Computing Moving From the Lab to the Logistics Desk
Quantum Computing Moving From the Lab to the Logistics Desk For years, quantum computing has been the technology forever five years away, a physics curiosity that sounded thrilling in a keynote and tended to vanish the moment someone asked for a profit-and-loss statement. That framing is starting to...
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Rethinking Road Intelligence with Aeva CityOS
Rethinking Road Intelligence with Aeva CityOS There was a time when the role of transport infrastructure appeared relatively straightforward. Roads carried vehicles, signals regulated movement and intersections balanced competing flows as efficiently as engineering would allow. Success was usually v...
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Bobyard Brings AI Estimating Into Commercial Electrical Construction
Bobyard Brings AI Estimating Into Commercial Electrical Construction Construction has spent decades digitising design, modelling and project management, yet one of the industry’s most commercially sensitive processes still relies heavily on manual work. Estimating remains a labour intensive discipli...
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Financing the Green Transition Across Central Asia
Financing the Green Transition Across Central Asia For decades, the countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programme have been building growth on familiar foundations. Energy extraction, mineral wealth, agriculture and large-scale infrastructure have powered development...
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Danish Pension Funds Plug into Africa’s Electric Motorcycle Surge
Danish Pension Funds Plug into Africa’s Electric Motorcycle Surge Denmark’s pension savers have just bought a stake in the daily commute of millions of African riders. Impact Fund Denmark has committed DKK 258 million, roughly USD 40 million, to Spiro, one of the continent’s larges...
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Graphene Takes the Next Step Towards More Sustainable Industrial Innovation
Graphene Takes the Next Step Towards More Sustainable Industrial Innovation For much of the past two decades, graphene has been presented as one of the most promising developments in modern materials science. Since researchers first isolated the material in 2004, expectations have remained consisten...
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Inside Jacobs Global Strategy for the Future of Infrastructure
Inside Jacobs Global Strategy for the Future of Infrastructure For decades, infrastructure programmes were largely judged by physical outputs. Kilometres of transmission lines, metres of seawall, treatment capacity or project completion dates dominated the conversation. That equation is changing. To...
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FLIR Extends Maritime Vision with Ocean Scout Pro II
FLIR Extends Maritime Vision with Ocean Scout Pro II Visibility has always dictated what happens next at sea. Whether operating a patrol vessel offshore, coordinating a rescue in poor weather or navigating commercial waterways after dark, the ability to identify what lies ahead remains one of the mo...
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Cracking the Chemistry Behind Cleaner Water
Cracking the Chemistry Behind Cleaner Water Water treatment is rarely viewed through the same lens as transport infrastructure, construction equipment or industrial expansion, yet it remains one of the most important enabling systems in the modern economy. Every city, industrial zone, logistics netw...
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Astrolab to Drive Lunar Mobility Into a New Era
Astrolab to Drive Lunar Mobility Into a New Era Returning astronauts to the Moon has never really been about planting flags. The hard part starts after landing. NASA’s latest decision to select Venturi Astrolab as one of two providers of a crewed lunar rover under the Artemis programme marks a shift...
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Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Invests in the Future Infrastructure Workforce
Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Invests in the Future Infrastructure Workforce For years, the conversation around preparing young people for work has tended to orbit university pathways, coding skills and academic performance tables. Yet quietly, and often without much fanfare, another conversation...
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INRIX Predictive Intelligence Reshapes Parking and Urban Mobility
INRIX Predictive Intelligence Reshapes Parking and Urban Mobility For years, parking sat in an awkward corner of transport planning. Roads expanded, junctions were redesigned, public transport networks evolved and digital traffic systems matured, yet parking often remained rooted in static maps, out...
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