Latest News in Commercial Glass

  • Changes in pay-if-paid clause
    June 26, 2007
    Texas first state to sign bill
    Read a Q&A with Virginia Lee, executive director of the Texas Glass Association, about the contingent payment bill, SB 324, to be effective Sept. 1...

  • Energy code implemented in India
    June 26, 2007

    Part one of two

    What that means for glazing professionals The Indian glazing community’s reaction to the implementation of the Energy Conservation Building Code is not clear yet. The code is the first of its kind in India ...

  • AAMA and IGMA review NFRC commercial rating program
    June 19, 2007
    Industry frustration with the National Fenestration Rating Council’s new program for commercial products dominated much of the discussion at the American Architectural Manufacturers Association and Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance meetings ...

  • Seeing green at GPD
    June 19, 2007
    Energy efficiency tops conference agenda in Finland


    Read our GPD blogs here.

    Glass suppliers, architects, equipment makers and everyone else in between seemed to have one thing on their minds during this year’s Glass Performance Days: energy efficiency ...

  • Glass executives head to Finland for conference
    June 12, 2007

    The Glass Performance Days conference and expo will get underway this week, drawing an expected 1,000 attendees from about 60 countries to Tampere, Finland, for the five-day event ...

  • Fire-rated glazing proposals defeated by ICC
    June 12, 2007
    The Washington, D.C.-based International Code Council voted down several fire-rated glazing code change proposals during its May 21-26 final action hearings in Rochester, N.Y...

  • Solutia set to come out of bankruptcy with reorganization plan
    June 6, 2007

    Officials from St. Louis-based Solutia Inc. announced a reorganization plan that will position the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "We … have filed a plan that positions Solutia to emerge from Chapter 11 with an improved cost structure, strengthened balance sheet, and greatly reduced risk profile," said Jeffry N. Quinn, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Solutia ...

  • Code council strikes down alternative thermal performance rating procedure again
    June 6, 2007
    During last week’s meeting of the International Code Council, a committee voted against a proposal that would have allowed for an alternative thermal performance rating procedure...

  • IGMA and AAMA hold meetings together
    June 6, 2007

    Globalization is moving faster than we realize, but the U.S. economy remains one of the most vibrant in the world, said Stuart Varney, a financial journalist with Fox News Network ...

  • Global energy trends at China Glass Show
    May 29, 2007
    Energy saving products and production process efficiency were the key issues at the 18th China International Glass Industrial Technical Exhibition May 16-19 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre...
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