NEWBERG, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 9, 2025--
Today, A-dec announced the enhancement of its product warranty from five years to ten years. Effective on core equipment invoiced on or after January 1, 2025, the new 10-Year Warranty covers A-dec dental chairs, delivery systems, lights, dental furniture, and stools.
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Marv Nelson, A-dec CEO, noted that A-dec equipment has a longstanding reputation for quality, reliability and performance among dental professionals. “A-dec products are well known for their legendary long life,” he said. “That’s due to our attention to detail and commitment to quality—what we call the A-dec difference. We’re pleased to offer A-dec customers a warranty that reflects the confidence we have in our equipment’s longevity and high standards of excellence.”
As a family-owned business, A-dec’s focus has always been on meeting the needs of dental professionals with reliable, creative solutions.
Tim Long, A-dec Vice President of Sales and Marketing, emphasized that the new, longer warranty will provide another meaningful point of differentiation for doctors considering A-dec for their dental practices. “Our customers have always been able to rely on A-dec equipment,” he said. “Now they’ll have the extra peace of mind of knowing that A-dec equipment is backed by the best warranty in the business.”
The enhanced 10-Year Warranty is valid in more than 100 countries worldwide, on equipment purchased directly from A-dec or an authorized A-dec dealer. Visit a-dec.com/legal/warranty to see full warranty details, including exclusions.
About A-dec
A-dec is one of the largest privately-owned dental equipment manufacturers in the United States, recognized as a global leader in dental solutions. A-dec dental chairs, delivery systems, dental lights, dental furniture, mechanical room equipment, A-dec 360 ™ infection control products, and connected solution platforms embody the company's mission to work for the betterment of dentistry worldwide. Honored as one of the top workplaces in the United States, the company has a longstanding reputation for the performance, quality, and reliability of its products. A-dec’s global headquarters is located in Newberg, Oregon, with distribution centers in Nuneaton, United Kingdom and Mascot, Australia. To learn more, visit www.a-dec.com.
A-dec equipment has a longstanding reputation for quality, reliability and performance among dental professionals. (Photo: Business Wire)
New warranty doubles the length of coverage on A-dec core equipment (Graphic: Business Wire)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a plea agreement that would spare him and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty in al-Qaida's notorious Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Defense lawyers in a filing late Wednesday described Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's attempts to throw out a plea deal that his own military had negotiated and approved as the latest in two decades of “fitful" and “negligent” mishandling of the case by the U.S. military and successive administrations.
Mohammed is due to enter his plea Friday morning in the attacks, in which 19 al-Qaida hijackers smashed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another crashed into a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people. Family members of some of the victims are gathered at Guantanamo for the moment.
Austin unexpectedly renounced the plea agreement after it was announced this summer, and the Biden administration's Justice Department is seeking to block Mohammed's plea from going forward at a U.S. military commission courtroom.
“An 11th-hour stay will accomplish nothing but more delay and it will reward the government for its — at best — negligent handling” of the 9/11 prosecutions, Mohammed's lawyers argued in a filing to a District of Columbia federal appeals panel just before midnight.
The federal appeals panel appears on track to possibly rule Thursday on the request by the Democratic Biden administration.
Legal and logistical challenges have bogged down the 9/11 case in the 17 years since Mohammed, who prosecutors say conceived the idea of using hijacked planes in the attacks, was first charged. The case remains in pre-trial hearings, with no trial date set.
Years of defense and prosecution testimony are ongoing about how much the sustained torture of Mohammed and other defendants in CIA custody renders their later statements legally inadmissible.
With the prosecution in the Sept. 11 attacks dragging on for decades and no conclusion in sight, military prosecutors this summer notified families of the victims that the senior Pentagon official overseeing Guantanamo had approved a plea deal after more than two years of negotiations.
The deal was “the best path to finality and justice,” military prosecutors told families then. In it, Mohammed and co-defendants Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi agreed to plead guilty to 2,976 murder charges in exchange for life sentences.
Austin unexpectedly announced Aug. 2 that he was nullifying the plea deal, and he has fought since then to scrap it. He argues that a decision on death penalties in an attack as grave as Sept. 11 should only be made by the defense secretary.
Defense attorneys say that the plea agreement is already in effect and that Austin has no legal standing to throw it out after the fact. The Biden administration went to the federal appeals court Tuesday after the Guantanamo judge and a military review panel sided against Austin's request.
Mohammed's attorneys argued in the new filing that Austin's “extraordinary intervention in this case is solely a product of his lack of oversight over his own duly appointed delegate,” meaning the senior Pentagon official overseeing Guantanamo.
The Justice Department's brief earlier this week said that the government would be irreparably harmed if the guilty pleas were accepted for Mohammed and the two co-defendants in the Sept. 11 attacks.
It said the government would be denied a chance for a public trial and the opportunity to “seek capital punishment against three men charged with a heinous act of mass murder that caused the death of thousands of people and shocked the nation and the world.”
FILE - In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin makes a speech at Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
FILE - This Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, center, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash, left, attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool, File)
