Reporting from Los Angeles and Wuhan, China — The final years of the U.S. housing boom and a disastrous series of Gulf Coast hurricanes created a golden opportunity for Chinese drywall manufacturers. With domestic suppliers unable to keep up with demand, imports of Chinese drywall to the U.S. jumped 17-fold in 2006 from the year [...]
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If a whole building can fall due to Chinese sub-standard materials just imagine what they sell to the rest of the world! Chinese drywall is going to be the least of our worries. HONG KONG (Reuters) – A 13-story residential building under construction in Shanghai collapsed on Saturday, killing one worker and highlighting the dangers [...]
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Sunrise Homes sent letters to about 100 of the 350 home-owners in the Penn Mill Lakes subdivision north of Covington, asking for permission to check whether they were built with the Chinese drywall. For Linda Williams, the inspection gave her relief. “The news was very good, and I was a little nervous,” she said. “I’m [...]
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