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		<title>HURRY! Special discounted pricing on selected Siemens products ends on May 31st, 2011!</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2011/04/siemens-savings-on-hvac-and-control-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: This special pricing offer is now expired &#8211; but keep an eye on this space for more money-saving offers in the future. Well, isn&#8217;t this a treat? Our good pals at Siemens Building Technologies have offered up some deeply discounted pricing &#8211; about 20%! &#8211; on 17 HVAC and building automation control products in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If your building project needs products covered under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, have we got a list for you.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2010/10/arra-products-hvac-building-automation-sold-by-alpscontrols/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2010/10/arra-products-hvac-building-automation-sold-by-alpscontrols/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our daily chats with the more than 130 manufacturers whose products we sell on alpscontrols.com, we&#8217;ve been learning more and more lately about the HVAC, lighting control and building automation products that fall within the requirements of the “Buy American” clause of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). At its basics, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lighting Controls: Introducing the 40% Solution</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2010/09/lighting-controls-introducing-the-40-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2010/09/lighting-controls-introducing-the-40-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a building automation specialist and you use HVAC control products to reduce energy use in your building projects, you seriously need to watch this video. Because you&#8217;re probably only doing half the job that you could be doing. According to our consultant Carl Keller, a controls contractor with decades of hands-on industry experience, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be the first to spot ten differences in these two HVAC systems and win a shirt from Automation Components Inc. (ACI)</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2010/05/win-a-shirt-from-aci-automation-components/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2010/05/win-a-shirt-from-aci-automation-components/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our partners at Automation Components Inc. (ACI) recently sent a quick quiz over to us to see if we knew anyone who&#8217;d like to have a brand spanking new ACI shirt. All you have to do to get one is to be among the first 10 people to spot the 10 differences in the HVAC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The FlexStat series from KMC Controls &#8211; like a building automation system that you can hold in your hand.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/flexstat-thermostat-from-kmc-controls/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/flexstat-thermostat-from-kmc-controls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to find a low-cost, high-value device that provides automation power and support but at a fraction of the cost and installation of a building automation system? Take a look: Find out more about the FlexStat from KMC Controls and add it to your Alps Controls shopping cart here. Looking for more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got a second? Alps Controls needs your input on this one-question survey.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/should-alps-controls-sell-belts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/should-alps-controls-sell-belts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the (minor) disadvantages to being The New Guy at Alps Controls &#8211; especially when I&#8217;m also The New Guy to the HVAC and building automation controls industry &#8211; is that often when my boss comes to ask me a question, I have to answer something like this:* BOSS: Say, New Guy, what do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 11.13.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-11-13-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-11-13-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is November already and as we race willy-nilly into the 2009 holiday season, you&#8217;re probably imagining yourself doing some shopping, decorating your porch with 10 strings of half-burned-out lights, and &#8211; naturally &#8211; catching up on all of the most compelling bits of controls news from across the interwebs. Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s Control Freak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For all of our account-holding customers on alpscontrols.com, a gentle reminder.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/for-alpscontrols-customers-please-log-in/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/for-alpscontrols-customers-please-log-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alpscontrols.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we revamped and relaunched our e-catalog site alpscontrols.com about seven weeks ago, we made it easier for anyone searching online for HVAC and building automation control products to be able to find our site, discover product solutions, browse the catalog and purchase products. What&#8217;s more, we&#8217;ve been able to develop robust, time-saving tools for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruskin creates new Energy Star partnership.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/ruskin-creates-new-energy-star-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/ruskin-creates-new-energy-star-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s getting so that you can barely open up a news page online (note: I didn&#39;t write &#34;open up a newspaper&#34;, and you can take that updated phrase as a positive or negative) anymore without frequent notices of the phrase &#34;Energy Star&#34;. The goal of this joint program &#8211; begun in 1992 &#8211; of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Funday</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2008/07/friday-funday/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2008/07/friday-funday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July has been a great month for the construction industry and we hope that you are all experiencing positives in your business. In the past few months we&#8217;ve added several new manufacturers to our catalog and we think they offer some great products that you&#8217;ll be interested in. In case you didn&#8217;t know, we add [...]]]></description>
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