Latest News in Fabrication Glass

  • Saint-Gobain announces NOVA Innovation Competition 2012
    December 15, 2011
    Saint-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...

  • Call for entries now open for World of Color Awards
    December 12, 2011
    The 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...

  • Edgetech I.G. earns German NRW-INVEST Award 2011
    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. ...

  • Joe Santelli named 2011 Pennsylvania Small Business Person of the Year
    May 19, 2011
    Photo 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...

  • Solutia announces winners of World of Color Awards
    September 28, 2010
    St. 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...

  • Crystal Achievement Awards go to 29 winners

    September 22, 2008
    Glass 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...

What's Hot

  • The good, the bad, the suspect
    In April 2011, the U.S. International Trade Commission instituted antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusion products from China, following a Department of Commerce investigation that determined 29 Chinese companies dumped some $500 million worth of extruded aluminum products into the U.S. market last year. According to the DOC, the Chinese exported their aluminum extrusions to...
  • PV Pioneers
    An increasing number of contract glaziers are getting involved in various aspects of the solar industry, from design and installation of BIPV and rooftop arrays, to product sourcing. "This is the future of where glazing is going," says Brendan Dillon, director of product marketing, Pythagoras Solar. "Solar has been developing over the last several years, and it seems like a very logical extension...
  • Between a rock and a hard place
    Cost increases have dominated the headlines the last several months, with glass and metal suppliers upping prices in response to rising raw material and operating costs. 
    Price hikesIn letters sent to customers this summer, glass and metal suppliers alike pointed to increasing raw material, fuel and operating costs as the reasons behind the price increases that took effect this June. (Visit GlassMagazine.com to see which suppliers raised prices and by how much.) Several industry representatives say prices have been deflated for years, and the increases were...