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February 11, 2013Sound Glass, Lakewood, Wash., will celebrate its 30th year in business at an upcoming city council meeting, according to a release. Since opening its doors in 1983, the company has grown to include two additional locations in Tacoma and Bremerton, Wash., employing a total of more than 60 employees across its three facilities.Looking ahead to 2013, Warren Willoughby, president, anticipates...
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February 7, 2013Architectural Glass and Aluminum, a western U.S. curtain-wall manufacturer/installer, has tripled the size of its Northern California operations center with its move to a new facility in Livermore, Calif. The move enables the firm to combine manufacturing and engineering operations with corporate offices in a 175,000-square-foot building on a 10-acre site.“The new Livermore location will...
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February 7, 2013Pleotint, LLC, has announced a distribution agreement with Prelco, Inc. that will enable the fabricator to incorporate Pleotint’s Suntuitive interlayer technology into its proprietary Prel-Shade thermochromic window offering. The agreement grants Prelco exclusive rights to market Prel-Shade windows with Suntuitive interlayer technology in eastern Canada, including Quebec, Ontario and the...
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February 6, 2013Walker Glass announced that Brian Wiles has joined the sales and architectural promotion team for Walker Textures acid-etched glass and mirror products. His territory consists of the greater Toronto area.Wiles has more than two decades of experience in the glass industry, having worked for several glass fabricators in southern Ontario, most recently at ProTemp.“We are very excited to have...
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February 6, 2013DelaneyVaughanThermal Windows Inc. has appointed Sean Delaney of Delaney Architectural, LLC as its manufacturer's representative for the state of Michigan. Delaney has more than 30 years' experience in the window and door industry, having started his independent rep organization, Delaney Architectural, LLC, in 2009.The company also announced that is has named Terry Vaughan of Vaughan...
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February 6, 2013FeneTech, Inc., creator of FeneVision ERP software, recently relocated to a new 16,000-square-foot greenfield facility. “While the launching of our Luxembourg office in 2010 demonstrates our long-term commitment to doing business around the globe, the new office at 260 Campus Drive in Aurora, Ohio, demonstrates our commitment to keeping all of the development activities here locally,” said...
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February 4, 2013NSG Group continued to feel the effects of an uncertain European economy in third quarter FY2013, with gross profit down 9 percent for the quarter compared to the same period a year ago."Economic difficulties in Europe continued to depress construction and refurbishment activity, and, consequently, architectural volumes were significantly below the previous year," according to an NSG release. The...
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February 4, 2013Constellation Software Inc. announced, February 4, that it has completed the purchase of Albat+Wirsam Software GmbH, acting through its Friedman Operating Group subsidiary. Headquartered in Linden, Germany, A+W develops and markets ERP, production planning and scheduling, and optimization software solutions for the glass, window, door and curtain-wall industries. Going forward, A+W will...
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February 1, 2013Officials from FeneTech Europe SARL Luxembourg, sister company of Ohio-based software specialist FeneTech Inc., announced that Christian Krenn has been named sales director, Europe. In his new position, he is responsible for managing, monitoring and developing the market for FeneTech’s integrated software ERP solution, FeneVision neo, across all of Europe, in addition to leading the European...
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January 30, 2013Saint-Gobain SA’s record 896 million-euro ($1.2 billion) cartel fine may be reduced by European Union regulators within weeks as officials seek to correct a calculation error, according to a Jan. 30 Bloomberg report. Regulators will make small reductions in the penalty because they made a mistake in the way they evaluated auto glass sales, said two people familiar with the decision, according 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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