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March 5, 2012Linetec earned the 2011 Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year Sustainability Grand Award. Classified by the award judges as a "mega company," Linetec is one of the nation's largest paint and anodize finishers, with facilities in Wausau, Wis., according to a company release. This is the second time Linetec has been honored as a Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year. In 2006, it won a Grand...
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February 15, 2012The American Institute of Architecture Students and Kawneer Co., Inc. recently announced the winners of the “Crisis-Ready Stadium” national student design competition. Sponsored by Kawneer and administered by the AIAS, the competition challenged students to learn about building materials, specifically architectural aluminum building products and systems in the design of a crisis-ready stadium,...
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December 15, 2011Saint-Gobain has officially launched its fourth global Innovation Competition. Organized by its NOVA External Venturing team, an international team of Saint-Gobain representatives that identify and evaluate start-up companies for strategic partnerships with all Saint-Gobain businesses, the competition will award a first place winner with $50,000 and second- and third-place winners with $25,000...
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December 12, 2011The call for entries for Solutia's 2012 World of Color Awards is now open. Architects, interior designers, glass fabricators, glaziers and other industry professionals will be recognized for their awe-inspiring architectural design projects that demonstrate creativity and forward-thinking uses of colored glass made with the Vanceva color interlayer system. Register your project here. Or learn...
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July 20, 2011(from left to right) Harry Voigtsberger, NRW-Wirtschaftsminister; Masato Nakagawa, Managing Director, Denso; Dr. Joachim Steiner, Managing Director, Economic Development, Heinsberg County; Andy Jones, Managing Director, Edgetech Europe; Petra Wassner, Managing Director, NRW-INVEST; Reinhold Pillich, Mayor of Denso-Location Wegberg; and Bert Dohmen, Economic Development, Heinsberg City. ...
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June 6, 2011FeneTech Inc., Aurora, Ohio, won the "Best Emerging Company" award from the Northeast Ohio Software Association, an organization made up of more than 900 technology companies representing all facets of Northeast Ohio's IT sector. Fenetech officials received the award at the Best of Tech Awards ceremony in Cleveland, May 19, according to a June 6 release.The Best Emerging...
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May 19, 2011Photo by SantelliTemperedGlass.comThe Small Business Administration recently named Joe Santelli of Santelli Tempered Glass in Monessen its 2011 Pennsylvania Small Business Person of the Year. Santelli traveled to Washington D.C. in May to compete with other state winners for the national award.Santelli Tempered Glass began in 2006, when Santelli, 55, quit his career of 29 years in safety glass...
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September 28, 2010St. Louis-based Solutia Inc. announced the winners of the first annual Solutia World of Color Awards: Inspired by Vanceva. The international competition pays tribute to architects, interior designers, furniture designers and other industry professionals who have demonstrated innovative and liberal use of Solutia's Vanceva color interlayers for laminated glass in their work between Jan. 1, 2006...
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August 25, 2010For the fourth year in a row, Edgetech I.G., Cambridge, Ohio, has been named among the ranks of Inc. magazine's list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. The company achieved this 2010 ranking because of its strong and consistent sales growth over the past three years, according to an Aug. 25 release."Making the Inc. 5000 list this year is quite an honor and a...
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September 22, 2008Glass Magazine’s third annual Crystal Achievement Awards produced 29 winners in 21 categories, including new additions Best Retail Showroom and Best Mirror Installation/Residential.“The nominations each year just continue to amaze me,” says Matt Slovick, editor in chief of Glass Magazine. “When I see all the winners at one time, it shows how much the industry continues to...
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Viracon, Inc. officials announced that the glass fabricator will make an investment of more than $30 million at its Owatonna, Minn., facility, to install a new coater. The company decided to install the new coating technology in Minnesota because the Owatonna facility is centrally located and has the most extensive product capabilities and technical talent, according to a release....
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Officials of PPG Industries announced several executive appointments, February 21, that are effective immediately.Michael McGarry, PPG executive vice president, has assumed leadership responsibility for the company’s flat glass businesses. He will also lead PPG's architectural coatings businesses in the Americas and Asia Pacific, as well as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region....
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As the prognosis for the design and construction industry continues to improve, the Architecture Billings Index is reflecting its strongest growth since November 2007, according to the American Institute of Architects. The January ABI score was 54.2, up sharply from a mark of 51.2 in December.“We have been pointing in this direction for the last several months, but this is the strongest...
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