Houston, TX (PRWEB) — Houston, TX, Nov 2009 – Flatrolled Steel Inc., a flat-rolled metal service center, is now live on the metal service center software STRATIX from the metal industry software specialist Invera.

About Flatrolled Steel
Flatrolled Steel Inc., a metal service center based in Houston, Texas, carries a large selection of hot rolled, floor plate, hot-rolled P&O, galvanized, galvannealed, and pre-painted coil and sheet products.

Flatrolled Steel’s state-of-the-art facility includes some of the industry’s most sophisticated equipment, including a new Red Bud multi-blanking line with a Herr-Voss leveler that has the ability to recoil a side cut off a multi-blanking order.

In addition to their facility and headquarters in Houston, Flatrolled Steel, Inc. USA has other metal service center locations in Grand Prairie, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Functions and Benefits
The implementation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solution STRATIX was completed in four months. A seamless integration of native metal industry terminology, functions and features made STRATIX more user-friendly and easy to deploy with minimum implementation costs.

The STRATIX software implementation included sales, purchasing, receiving, inventory management, multi-step production, production scheduling, delivery and logistics planning, invoicing, and financials.

The STRATIX software implementation also included a feature to scan the Original Mill Certificate into STRATIX, in order to view the mill certificate for a coil and sheet tag when viewing stock, and enable the automatic printing or email of the Original Mill Certificate, based on the customer profile, at time of shipping.

To handle customer repeat items produced to a specification, Flatrolled Steel will use STRATIXcps, a STRATIX product that stores a comprehensive set of information based on a Customer’s Part Number. At Order creation, the CPS parameters are pulled into the Order Item by selecting the appropriate Customer Part Number, to speed up the Sales Order Entry process and prevent user errors.

About Invera
Invera has been providing steel service center and metal service center enterprise software (ERP) and Metal Internet systems for over 25 years. Their metal industry software products STRATIX and eSTELPLAN are used by more than 13,000 users at over 600 sites in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada and the Far East.

South Gate, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) — Arnco, one of the world’s largest suppliers of polyurethane products is proud to announce the formation of the Arnco Construction Products (ACP) division.

The announcement was made by Arnco President Larry Carapellotti who said, “This is a natural progression for Arnco. We have been in the polyurethane field for 37 years. We’re always looking at ways to bring superior products to our existing customers as well as looking for new avenues of expansion. The recession hasn’t shut us down; in fact it’s created a culture of creativity inside of Arnco. An appetite to succeed in adversity.”

The ACP division was created in response to the success of their Arnco Performance Polymers and Arnco Industrial Maintenance divisions. ACP will offer a full line of superior seamless monolithic spray foam systems for roofing and wall insulation as well as protective coatings for waterproofing and weatherproofing.

Arnco will be adding two new employees for their ACP division, Will Lorenz (General Manager) who has been in the polyurethane industry since 1987 and Steve McGrane (West Coast Sales) who has 28 years experience in the roofing industry and 4 1/2 years in the spray-foam field.

Founded in 1971 and based in South Gate, Calif., Arnco has processing facilities in South Gate, California, Berea, Ohio and Manchester, England. For further information, visit the Arnco website at www.arnconet.com.

For more information about Arnco Construction Products call Steve McGrane (951.588.9330) or Will Lorenz (951.236.2697). The ACP website is currently under-construction.

Buena Park, CA (PRWEB) — Partners Consulting Services, Inc. announced that their Data Center operation has completed the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 type II audit. SAS 70 is an internationally recognized audit for validating the internal controls of service providers and other businesses.

Federal regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), require corporations to audit the internal controls of their suppliers, including those that provide hosting services. By undergoing the SAS 70 audit, Partners Consulting can provide its customers with a comprehensive audit report that facilitates compliance with these and other regulations.

As in past years, Partners Consulting retained the services of Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C., a leader in SAS 70 auditing. As in previous audits, Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. benchmarked key functional elements of Partners Consulting hosting operation against best practices defined by Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), the IT Governance Institute’s generally accepted standard for good information-technology security and control practices. The benchmarking included the elements of technology infrastructure, backup processes, system reliability, internal controls, and physical and logical security.

“Our hosting business continues to be strategic to Partners Consulting, and our recent success in passing this voluntary SAS 70 annual audit demonstrates the strength of this business unit and our commitment to the hosted services strategy,” said Partners Consulting’s Executive Vice President, Jim Cisneros. “Partners Consulting’s aim, as a key vendor to public clients in particular, is to facilitate their compliance with state and federal regulations while ensuring we maintain the highest standards for quality and consistency in its hosted processes.”

About Partners Consulting:
Partners Consulting Services, Inc. is a recognized leader in providing top-tier information technology solutions to companies in North America. With specializations in Managed Services, Enterprise Solutions and Technology Staffing, and with multiple offices across the United States, Partners Consulting has a proven track record of helping clients meet their strategic objectives. Leveraging over 25 years of experience, Partners Consulting delivers advanced capabilities that solve complex business and technology challenges. Partners’ best practices include Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 5, Help Desk Institute (HDI) and SAS70 Compliance. Visit www.partnersconsulting.com.

Lexington, Kentucky (Vocus/PRWEB ) — Delays in the North American corn harvest have brought about concerns over mycotoxin contamination, particularly toxins produced by Fusarium molds including DON (vomitoxin), zearalenone, and fusaric acid. Alltech, makers of Mycosorb and Mold-Zap, have established the ‘Mycotoxin Hotline.’ The hotline, in addition to sponsorship of the www.knowmycotoxins.com website, is designed to provide producers and feed mill professionals a quick route to answers and a centralized point of access to references and industry experts. Call the Mycotoxin Hotline toll-free at 866-322-3484.

“Mycotoxins in feedstuffs have long been a problem for animal agriculture and this year appears to be one of the worst years on record,” said Alltech director of worldwide research, Dr. Karl Dawson. “Through the mycotoxin hotline, producers across North America have access to some of the world’s leading experts on mycotoxins and mycotoxicosis.”

Alltech is a global animal health company, providing natural, nutritional feed supplements to address challenges facing animal agriculture. With more than 2,000 employees in 120 countries, Alltech is the proud sponsor of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2010™ to be held in Lexington, Kentucky from September 25 to October 10, 2010.

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada (PRWEB) — Symphony 8 Centers Inc., a leading provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services and solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with ClickSaya Communications Inc., the latest new economy high growth Click-To-Call provider of Click-To-Call buttons where ‘Click-To-Call’ buttons or pictures embedded on email signatures to websites to any Microsoft office files or documents into calls between any landline, VOIP or wireless phones. Under the terms of the agreement, Symphony 8 will offer ClickSaya customers inbound customer service, out bound sales functions, operational support such as customer order processing, fulfillment, billing, payment and collections while reducing costs and increasing ROI.

“We are excited about the partnership agreement with ClickSaya,” said Ana-Maria Stanescu, VP, Sales and Marketing at Symphony 8. “ClickSaya has shown impressive growth by proving growth of 200,000 members within 114 days with no marketing of any kind. We are delighted to be there for their next level of growth. When organizations decide to embark and focus on growth, their strategy of outsourcing their whole back end office it is critical to partner with a BPO provider that can offer end-to-end capabilities from global operating models and resulting labor arbitrage, process improvement and best practices, and domain/technology innovations, all while complying with regulatory and governance requirements. At Symphony 8, we are able to provide just that.”

“ClickSaya is happy to be working with Symphony 8 with its multilingual capabilities, and proven track record working with some of the largest Multinationals. With Symphony 8, we do not need to work with numerous call centers for the language requirements of our members. After reviewing and looking at other centers, we found Symphony 8 to be most cost efficient – the best value for money, says Alan Yong, President of ClickSaya.”

ClickSaya Communications Inc. is a Developer and Provider of innovative web based global internet telephony solutions for the future specifically the ClickSaya Click-To-Call “Click-Me and Click-BIZ” buttons for users and owners of websites, pc, cellular phone, landline, broadband phone and any other communication tools – where ClickSaya buttons “turns clicks into calls”. Users include professionals, entrepreneurs, small businesses, personals as well as web sites. ClickSaya Communications Inc. is a British Columbia, Canadian corporation. Visit ClickSaya on the Web at www.clicksaya.com and www.clicksaya.net .

Symphony8 is an offshore high performance multilingual business process outsourcing (BPO) provider that offers customer management/acquisition services, and other back office functions from its centers in several countries working with a broad range of clients. Symphony8’s current client base sees offshore outsourcing as part of its strategy to optimize the people supply chain, so that work is done wherever it can be done better and at a lower cost. Clients look to Symphony8 as a partner delivering value-added services that have an immediate impact on revenue, and a long-term impact on brand equity. Visit Symphony 8 at www.symphony8centers.com .

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to future operating information and their impact on future results. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in forward -looking statements as a result of risk factors such as market conditions, product life cycles, customer delays in purchasing products, competition, price sensitivity and the uncertain market acceptance of the Company’s products by distributors, retailer and customers.

Fenton, MO (PRWEB) — The IRON Search advertisement that ran in the September issue of Agri Marketing magazine received the highest overall rating by those agri-marketers who participated in the study.

The study was conducted by Readex Research, Stillwater, MN. The IRON Search ad achieved an overall score of 113 by the 100 agri-marketers who rated 22 of the ads that were in the issue. Featuring a hot air balloon sporting the message “Your Ad Here,” it had the overall highest rating for Attention Getting and also scored well above average for Believability and Information Value.

Second place honors went to High Plains Journal. Third place was a three tie among Charleston/Orwig, Northern Broadcasting System and Successful Farming.

“Each September, Readex conducts a ‘Message Impact Study’ on the ads running in that issue,” reports Agri Marketing Publisher Lynn Henderson. “We conduct the study so advertisers can obtain feedback on their messages from our audience which includes companies that supply products and services to North American agricultural producers, their ad/PR agencies, ag trade associations, the ag media and others in the ag industry.

“We are pleased to present IRON Search with this year’s award. Past winners include High Plains Journal, the National Association of Farm Broadcasting and Vance Publishing.”

“Every month, IRONsearch.com attracts hundreds of thousands of equipment buyers and users of agricultural products and services right at the moment they intend to make a purchase,” says Lisa Bocklage, Director of Marketing at IRON Solutions in Fenton, MO, parent company of IRON Search.

“IRONsearch.com has proven to be the secret weapon in online advertising campaigns for Agri Marketing’s key audience. Companies that supply these products and services to North American agricultural producers increasingly depend on IRONsearch.com to sell products ranging from the equipment they need – to the seed and chemicals they apply – to the pickup they drive – and even the clothes they wear or the music they listen to while they work.

“We knew Agri Marketing was the desirable place to advertise and collaborated with Nicholson Kovac to produce an ad that would grab the industry’s attention and deliver the message.”

To view the ad, click here.

Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) — ATMOCEAN’S (www.atmocean.com) ocean wave-energy pump technology is featured at The Copenhagen Climate Exchange (www.cphco2009.dk) in Copenhagen December 3-6, 2009 under the theme “More Fish – Less CO2”.

In his presentation scheduled for 6pm on Thursday, December 3 at Oksnehallen Conference Hall in downtown Copenhagen, Atmocean CEO Philip Kithil will explain how the Company’s ocean pumps bring up nutrient-rich water from 125 meters deep, to increase the growth of plankton. More plankton naturally absorb CO2 while providing more food for ocean fish. The technology closely mimics natural upwelling, does not add any foreign material or chemical to the ocean, is low cost, and can be scaled quickly to return the global oceans to their pre-industrial condition.

Atmocean – featured in the Discovery Channel program “Hungry Ocean” which premiered in September 2008 – is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, and has conducted ocean testing from port cities worldwide, including Galveston, Texas; St. Georges, Bermuda; San Diego, Long Beach, and Santa Barbara California; and Honolulu, Hawaii; with plans for Ensenada, Mexico and Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

By commencing pump deployment in 2010, Atmocean will measure and quantify any side effects, while verifying ocean absorption of about 35 tons more CO2 and increase in fish populations of 1,000 kg annually achieved by each ocean pump.

Atmocean intends to manufacture its pumps in host countries worldwide to maximize the economic benefits – generating thousands of jobs, reviving the ocean fishing industry, improving port utilization, and helping the host country offset its CO2 emissions while maintaining economic growth. According to Kithil, “This unilateral approach can greatly accelerate tangible mitigation of climate change and global warming, and could spur multilateral and international actions, as host countries employing Atmocean pumps gain competitive advantages against the laggards.”

According to Dr. Brian Von Herzen, Executive Director of The Climate Foundation (www.climatefoundation.org), “It is imperative that we utilize technologies such as those developed by Atmocean to restore fisheries and keep them at sustainable levels, while investigating these techniques to safely and effectively sequester gigatons of carbon, as Nature has done for the past 3 billion years.”

For more information, please visit the Company website www.atmocean.com, or contact Philip W. Kithil, telephone 505-310-2294.