Yes, emergency responders come to us for personal protective equipment and other gear (see links below).

No, we’ve never had a request for a Spider-Man costume.

But after reading about this boy’s rescue, we’ll have to think about carrying them.

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Level A protective suits
Boots, overboots & overshoes
Disposable footwear
Chemical-resistant gloves
Safety goggles
Reusable respirators

Queen’s University of Ontario has good news and bad news about using detergents to clean up spills of diesel oil on water.

The good news is that it reduces potential impact of the oil on surface-dwelling animals (picture a sea gull).

The bad news is that the detergents, in dispersing oil into water, make the spill 100 times more toxic to young fish, which could be devastating to fisheries (not to mention that sea gull, if he’s looking for a fish to eat).

So we’re glad to offer non-chemical options for removing spills of oil on water, including:

PIG® White Oil-Only Mat Pads & Rolls
PIG® Brown Oil-Only Mat Pads & Rolls
PIG® Oil-Only Socks, Booms, & Sweeps
PIG® Non-Absorbent Booms (to keep spills from spreading)
PIG® Oil-Only Pillows, Pans & Bags
PIG® Oil-Only Loose Absorbents

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Yuck. Roof leaks dumped salty, rusty water onto classic cars at a recent major exhibition.

I feel bad for everyone involved:

• Car owners who spend countless hours and dollars restoring and detailing their cars
• Show sponsors and managers who had to cope with an ugly situation: disgruntled exhibitors, attendees, bad word-of-mouth …
• Maintenance staff at the aging facility, who apparently face challenging limits
• Local officials who come from different perspectives on what steps to take

But I also need to put on my company hat and say: PIG® Leak Diverters might come in really handy here. They’re specifically designed to catch and divert water from roof leaks to drains or out-of-the-way collection units. They’re not tarps that will overflow (as seems to have happened here); they don’t let water pool. They’re guaranteed to keep leaking liquids away from floors, fixtures, products and classic cars.

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Have you heard about six-word stories?

They’re just that: Stories in only six words.

Ernest Hemingway wrote the classic: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” He supposedly considered it his finest work.

Below are more, borrowed from this page, dressed up with six-word responses that relate to New Pig. Enjoy.

And please comment with your own six-word masterpieces!

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Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

How will I get to newpig.com?

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We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly

Wait, I’ll use PIG® Mat instead.

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Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Howard Waldrop

Thankfully, I had PIG® Leak Diverters.

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Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
- David Brin

Stegasaurus: “You supply the drums, too.”

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In the beginning was the word.
- Gregory Maguire

A name for Absorbent Socks: PIG®

Here I am in some recent pick-up action.

From sty to sky, here’s mud in your eye.

I’m your Windex Hog too, baby.

New Piggers in our shipping area make sure that orders race out of here. That’s fitting, because our headquarters is on a former racetrack.

Yep, the Altoona Speedway. Quick facts:

• Operated 1923-1929
• The track was made of yellow pine
• The highest recorded speed was 138.6 miles per hour

See more information and pictures here.

Imagine the thrill for those spectators … had they only known that they were at the future One Pork Avenue!

I’m glad this blog post reminded me of a great story from the book Succeeding with What You Have, Charles M. Schwab, 1917. In challenging times like these, we need inspiring insights and images of work:

This accident happened only about three hours from New Pig.

Click to see Map-A-Spill

Click to see products for emergency spill response