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If you were a fan of the old Saturday Night Live (since rebranded by its initials, SNL), you may recall a recurring skit featuring a small family known as the Coneheads: bald, pointy-headed extraterrestrials with odd speech patterns. The phrase “parental units” derives from these characters, as does a term for scrambled eggs that’s become […]
Our annual time travel adventure takes place on Sunday, November 6th, when we set our clocks back and get to re-live an hour. It’s like a Groundhog Day micro-mini. How will you spend this extra time? One way you probably don’t want to spend it is cleaning up a spill. So since you’ve got an extra hour
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You may have heard that Impact Absorbents has a beautiful new manufacturing and distribution facility in Benton, Arkansas. So we’re more committed than ever to keeping Arkansas beautiful — after all, spill clean up and spill containment is our jam, and we don’t mean on toast! And the opening of our new facility coincides perfectly with
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October signals Impact Absorbents’ 30th anniversary! You know that timeworn adage, about not trusting anyone over 30? We’re turning that old slogan on its ear. Here’s how: Many loyal Impact customers have been with us since we launched the company in 1992 with XSORB, our premier spill clean up and spill containment product. XSORB Universal is still the
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It’s just a little challenging in the world today, when war breaks out abroad and nations everywhere take sides. It’s also more than a little dangerous, considering one nuclear detonation could end life as we know it. We need neutrality: a detached, objective, mature perspective that allows differences to co-exist. It’s a tall order, and
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Angela Strehli recorded her version of a 1970s tune called “Slipped, Tripped, and Fell in Love,” but being in the spill clean up business, when one of our team members heard it on the radio while driving, all she could think was, “Wow, a song about the dangers of spills!” Now, for some people, falling into a
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Have you heard of the latest dishwasher? It’s an AI-enabled dishwashing device marketed as being a solution “for every home & office. Dishcare eliminates the arduous task of actually having to rinse and load dirty dishes into the dishwasher, saving seconds, if not minutes of time daily, that can be put to better use texting.
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You may be thinking. “This is not a fit. Social media is digital by nature. Spill clean up is analog.” (Although if you spill coffee on your device, that would muddy the boundaries a bit…). But social media can teach you a lot about how to better run your business. To wit: Everyone’s an influencer.
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If there’s one positive to come out of the pandemic, it’s people’s reflection on how they spend their days, and whether their work is truly satisfying beyond simply receiving a paycheck. Early on, for example, one of our team discovered, when she went to make a hair appointment (during the brief period between the first
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January might as well be called “Lethargy.” The weather is dull and cold and often wet, slip and fall incidents increase, people have less energy, and in general, it’s a dreary month, even if it is the start of a new year. But you’ve got high hopes for business growth in 2022, and you want
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