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Midland based UK glass processor MiGlass has strengthened its already state of the art facility with the installation of an automatic laminating cutting table.
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Architect Jesse Lizer, AIA, and his wife, Shannon, live in the dream home that they imagined and built together in Dike, Iowa.
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