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Ew, what’s that smell?

Published on June 26, 2023
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn A little more than half of the way to Cuenca from our home in the Yunguilla valley, there is a place I drive by that makes vinyl windows, gutters and assorted plastic materials like sewer pipes etc. It must use some kind of epoxy mixture in its processes, because when the […]

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