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  • Power Packed or Fire Trapped?

    • By Danielle Macdonald
    • Added on Apr 15, 2025

    Lithium-ion batteries are rechargeable batteries that help power various equipment, like hand tools, cell phones, electric vehicles, and industrial robots. These batteries have many benefits, including fast charge times, low maintenance, light weight, and high-power density. Many contractors have them in their rig, but are they aware that alongside all the benefits, there could also be a potential hazard waiting to ignite. read more

  • Here Comes the Sun...

    • By Jason Hoerter, PE, RRO
    • Added on Jun 01, 2019

    Protecting yourself out in the sun this summer while on a roof or exterior spray foam application job. read more

  • ACC Continues Strong Opposition to DTSC Over Spray Foam

    • Added on May 25, 2017

    The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) today hosted a public hearing for comments on its proposal to list spray polyurethane foam insulation (SPF) materials containing unreacted methylene diphenyl diisocyanates (MDI), a key component in SPF, as a Priority Product under the state’s Safer Consumer Products Program. read more