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  • GANA releases 22nd Glass Informational Bulletin
    February 23, 2009
    The Glass Association of North America, Topeka, Kan., released its 22nd Glass Informational Bulletin, a series of educational documents available to the industry as a free download from the GANA Web site, according to a Feb. 23 release. Titled Proper Procedures for Fabricating Flat Glass Mirror, the GIB provides a list of helpful guidelines for fabricators.Since its original creation, GANA’...

  • China still key factory base amid downturn
    February 23, 2009
    Multinational companies are still expanding operations in China despite the global downturn, but they are hurting from plunging exports and local sales, according to a report issued Friday.The annual report on manufacturing competitiveness, issued by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and other foreign business groups, found that most companies surveyed see their China operations as...

  • Qibin Glass starts operating Zhangzhou float glass project
    February 23, 2009
    Zhangzhou Qibin Glass Co., (Qibin Glass) started operating its float glass production line in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, on Feb. 10, 2009.The production line is able to melt 900 tons of glass per day, providing products widely used in construction, furniture, automobile and optic instrument, according to the Zhangzhou glassmaker, according to a Feb. 11 SinoCast report.

  • Glass maker Saint-Gobain sees 2008 profit fall
    February 20, 2009
    Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest producers of glass for the construction and automobile industries, Friday said it would sell around €1.5 billion ($1.91 billion) in new shares to bolster its capital amid the deepening global economic crisis.Saint-Gobain stock plunged on the news and and in midmorning trading in Paris was down 15.7 percent at €23.59, it's lowest...

  • Major and current issues to be highlighted at 11th GPD Conference
    February 19, 2009
    The GPD Conference has released the final program for the top glass summit to be held on June 12-15, according to a Feb. 19 GPD release. As before, the versatile, modular agenda offers the latest information and visions of the glass world in a condensed executive format. Top political, solar and glass industry executives will present in the opening ceremony June 12.The contents of the program...

  • The stimulus: What it means to the construction industry
    February 19, 2009
    On Feb. 13, 2009, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1). The Act includes a total of $787.2 billion in spending and tax cuts, including $308 billion in appropriated spending, $269 million in direct spending (refundable portion of tax credits, Unemployment assistance, Medicaid reimbursement to states, etc) and $211 billion in tax cuts.

  • Unions, employers gearing up for card check battle
    February 18, 2009
    To hear Collegeville [Pa.] builder Gustavo Perea tell it, the prospect is frightening.Some ambitious union organizer would take his carpenters out to a bar, buy them a couple of beers, get them to sign some union cards, and the next thing Perea knows, he'd wake up in the morning with a union shop.That's how he imagines the future if the federal Employee Free Choice Act is passed--a proposed law...

  • New York manufacturing index dropped to record low

    February 18, 2009
    Manufacturing in New York contracted in February at the fastest pace on record, signaling the recession that began over a year ago is intensifying.The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index fell to minus 34.7, the lowest level since records began in 2001, from minus 22.2 percent in January, the bank said today. Readings below zero for the Empire State index signal...

  • Ebeid: Prepare for a new glass industry
    February 17, 2009

    The glass industry, as we know, it will be no more in just a few years, Russell J. Ebeid, president, Glass Group, Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., told a group of more than 500 during the Building Envelope Contractors Conference in Las Vegas.

  • Optimization, innovation top industry trends
    February 16, 2009

    Technology-driven products top the product trends for window and glass companies, said Michael E. Collins, a senior associate with Jordan, Knauff & Co., Chicago, Feb. 15 during a presentation at GlassWeek in Las Vegas.

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