February 2010 Newsletter: Fire Doors Reduce Fatalities; Congress Bans 100-watt Light Bulbs


	For 37 years W. E. Carlson Corporation has worked hard to be your "go-to" solutions provider for DOCKS, DOORS and MORE. We deliver answers to your most pressing challenges in multiple product categories! Check out what customers are clamoring for this month:

	Fire Doors Reduce Fatalities and Injuries, Minimize Property Loss

			Contain fire damage and protect employees and product from potentially dangerous areas of your facility. The Wayne-Dalton FireStar™ door outperforms industry standard fire doors in all areas: Sizes up to 24' Wide and 24' High Easy to Test: Standard Auto Reset Quiet Operation UL/FM Rated Conforms to National Fire Protection Assn. (NFPA) Standard 80 Watch the video! *Have Your Doors Been Tested?* NFPA Standard 80 requires that your rolling steel fire doors are drop tested EVERY YEAR, and that you maintain a written record documenting proper installation and full closure. Drop testing, repair and/or maintenance should be performed by qualified personnel like our certified service technicians.

	Contact W.E. Carlson TODAY for more information on Wayne-Dalton FireStar doors, or to schedule your annual fire door inspection and drop test! Call Laurel Green at 847.640.0011 or email lgreen@wecarlson.com.

BAD NEWS: Congress BANS 100-watt Light Bulbs by 2012 GOOD NEWS: LED Lighting Uses 90% Less Energy Than Incandescent The Rite-Lite HD-LED Dock Light Will Save You Money

150-watt Incandescent Lighting	It's also BRIGHTER… It LASTS LONGER (at least 5.5 years!)… It may qualify for ENERGY REBATES… There's NO GLASS… It's always COOL to the TOUCH… It fits almost any EXISTING DOCK LIGHT ARM… And since the government banned incandescent light bulbs… THE Rite-Lite® HD-LED Dock Light COULD BE THE LAST DOCK LIGHT YOU'LL EVER NEED	15-watt Rite-Lite HD-LED Dock Light

Safety Barrier Systems Save Lives

Forklift Safety: Don’t be a Statistic

Loading dock accidents can be fatal. But many can be prevented. Rite-Hite's Dok-Guardian Safety Barrier easily fits across vacant loading docks and can stop a 10,000 pound fork truck traveling at 4 mph… with minimal to no damage to the barrier.

Safety only starts at the loading dock:

SpanGuard Safety Barrier—flexible, movable system provides a physical and visual barrier to protect work areas or walkways.

GuardRite SureStop—designed to stop a fork truck with little to no deflection. Easy to install modular design can be stand-alone barrier or combined with other solutions.

GuardRite Light-Duty System—best-in-class solution with many of the benefits of "old-school" steel guard railing… at a lower cost.

See these products in ACTION: Watch the VIDEO.

	*Thank you for your business! We look forward to working with you.*
	For more information, call us at 847.640.0011 or e-mail solutions@wecarlson.com. W.E. Carlson Corporation, Northern Illinois' and Northwest Indiana's exclusive Rite-Hite distributor and four-time winner of its Distributor of the Year Award, supplies loading dock equipment, industrial doors, material handling equipment, and in-plant solutions to businesses ranging from the Fortune 500 to the locally owned-and-operated.

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