Latest News in Commercial Glass

  • AAMA announces new aluminum course
    January 20, 2009
    The American Architectural Manufacturers Association, Schaumburg, Ill., introduced "The Aluminum Advantage," a classroom educational course developed by the association's Aluminum Material Council Strategic Marketing Task Group. Accredited through the American Institute of Architects, the course details the advantages of using aluminum as a building material, including structural...

  • Online daylighting course from TGP expands learning options
    November 6, 2008
    As architects and designers are looking for resources to help with affective daylighting practices, Technical Glass Products, Snoqualmie, Wash., has provided a convenient educational tool available 24 hours per day. TGP now offers Web access to its AIA-registered course: "A Bright Future: Daylighting for Tomorrow's Buildings." Design professionals can access the free course...

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  • CH Holdings relaunches Cupples brand with Bob Trainor at the helm
    CH Holdings, the St. Louis-based holding company that owns Enclos Corp. and Environmental Interiors Inc., has relaunched the Cupples brand in the domestic U.S. marketplace, according to confidential sources. CH has reportedly tapped Bob Trainor, former CEO of Trainor Glass, to lead the new Cupples team.The new façade contracting company, Cupples Inc., will target smaller projects with $1...
  • Exclusive: Grey Mountain talks strategy
    In the span of three months, Grey Mountain Partners, the Boulder, Colo., private equity firm, acquired four glass and metal fabrication companies: Custom Components Co., Columbia Commercial Building Products, Global Security Glazing and Hawkins Architectural Products. Recently, Beth Lesniak, vice president and affiliate manager for Grey Mountain,...
  • UPDATED: Trainor Glass Co. files for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
    UPDATE: Trainor Glass filed a motion in the Chapter 11 case on March 13, seeking to use cash collateral and obtain post-petition financing to “pay for the costs of the preservation and orderly liquidation of debtor’s assets, and to pay for the costs of administration of the debtor’s chapter 11 case,” according to the court documents.First Midwest Bank, the bank involved in the motion, has “...