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  • Scammers strike glass companies in fraud spree
    December 4, 2007
    During the last week, a number of glass company managers contacted e-glass weekly about an apparent spree of ordering scams that could cost companies thousands of dollars if not detected ...

  • New York keeps the Northeast market hot
    December 4, 2007


    Part three of four

    The Northeast has one major asset in the face of the nationwide residential construction slump: New York. The 23-square-mile city that never sleeps has been resilient to the housing decline affecting the rest of the country and has even experienced a luxury residential building boom ...

  • PGC symposium offers valuable facts, data
    December 4, 2007
    About 100 people attended the Annual Symposium by the Protective Glazing Council of Topeka, Kan., at the Crystal City Marriott, Arlington, Va., Nov. 28-29. Sessions were chock-full of information on the history as well as updates on codes and standards, insurance practices, and new products and trends in the market...

  • Guardian, Pilkington, Asahi and Saint-Gobain fined for price-fixing
    December 4, 2007
    The European Union fined four glass companies a total of about $724 million on Nov. 28 for conspiring to raise European market prices for flat glass. EU officials state that the four companies coordinated several simultaneous price increases between 2004 and 2005 ...

  • Z26.1 standard under fire
    December 1, 2007
    Officials at the National Glass Association, McLean, Va., have joined an industrywide effort to combat the revised Z26.1 Automotive Glazing Standard, urging members and those involved in the repair and replacement of automotive glass to submit comments to the American National Standards Institute recommending against its approval. All comments are due to ANSI by Dec. 24, 2007. Specifically,...

  • Nonresidential construction starts jump 9 percent in October
    November 27, 2007
    While total construction starts remained unchanged from September, nonresidential building increased 9 percent to $22.8 billion ...

  • Midwest commercial construction market steady
    November 27, 2007


    Part two of four

    While the Midwest commercial construction market is not experiencing dazzling growth, contractors say it remains steady with some areas of growth. The region’s construction market has been unaffected by the financial market downturn ...

  • Nippon Sheet Glass reports $42 million net income in second quarter
    November 27, 2007

    Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Japan, returned to profit in the second quarter, which ended Sept. 30, with $42 million net income, according to financial statements released Nov. 21. For the same quarter last year, NSG reported a loss of $35 million ...

  • West should prep for commercial slowdown
    November 20, 2007

    Nonresidential construction economy vibrant in short term


    Part one of four

    The October Architectural Billings Index from the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C., released Nov. 16, projects a slowdown for nonresidential construction, as billings slow nationwide with the West hit hardest. The index, derived from a work-on-the-boards survey of architects, is a projection of nonresidential construction activity six months down the road ...

  • October architectural billings edge back up, inquiries slow
    November 20, 2007
    Architectural billings rebounded slightly in October, according to a Nov. 16 release from the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C. The Architectural Billings Index suffered a steep downturn from July to September, falling from 60 to 51.1. In October, the ABI edged up slightly to 53.2, according to the release ...
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