The reusable device cost $3 million to build, is six feet long and weighs 154 pounds when loaded with 20 pounds of propellant, said Weston.
Last year, Buckhorn, a distributor of reusable plastic containers and automotive parts, had a loss of $2.6 million on sales of $42.9 million.
Using gravity-fed bins and barrels fitted with pumps and spigots, she fills her reusable packaging.
Hydrofluoric acid is used to clean parts for the reusable main engines, he said.
In fact, it invented the deposit/return system in order to ensure the return of reusable containers.
By using reusable silicon rubber vacuum bags that were much better than earlier, more rudimentary models, Northrop allegedly was able to shape and cure the parts for the F/A-18 with less material and labor.
Thornton Kay and Hazel Matravers reckon that 25,000 tons of reusable building materials are buried in landfill sites in the UK every working day -and that there is money in telling people about the fact. The money has been minimal and hard-won.
The dummy bombs provide only a flash of fire and a puff of smoke, leaving the target _ an aging tank _ charred but reusable. The real thing would be a different story.
The company established a subsidiary that will offer hospitals reusable sterile surgical equipment to replace certain disposable equipment they now use.
Justen complained that some $300,000 worth of reusable items were on the vessel, but he was unable to salvage them because of the time constraints of his contract.
Where recovery is possible, the product is 90 per cent reusable by volume if filtered.