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Learn More About Lamination
GANA Offers Updated Laminated Glazing Manual
by Brian Pitman
eaded by the competent leadership of Solutia Inc.’s Julie
Schimmelpenningh, a Glass Association of North America (GANA)
task group has completed its review
and update of the GANA Laminated
Glazing Reference Manual, a document
that has helped many professionals in
the construction industry for almost a
decade. The new 2009 edition is the
third update of the Manual since it was
first released in 2000, and the first since
April 2006.
H
formation about laminating interlayers, as
well as in-depth discussions on the numerous
applications of laminated architectural glass
including safety, solar
control, ultraviolet radiation, sound control, security, sloped glazing
and skylights, wind
storms and hurricane
and earthquake resist-
With completion of these revisions
and inclusion of newly developed
information, the 2009 edition of the
Manual was released earlier this month.
As one of the most successful publications offered by GANA, the Manual
contains information that covers a
broad range of considerations for the
application and specification of laminated glass in building construction. It
has sold more than 8,000 copies since
its initial release. With the changes in
trends and further information development in the three years since the release of the 2006 edition, an update was
needed. The task group worked for two
years to compile and verify the most
current information. With completion
of these revisions and inclusion of
newly developed information, the 2009
edition of the Manual was released earlier this month.
The current Manual presents general
useful information, technical details,
performance data and the installation
guidelines for laminated glass products.
The 2009 edition includes the latest in-
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ance. Updates on laminated glass
strength, cutting, handling and installation also are highlighted throughout
the Manual. There also is a very useful
quick reference section on standards as
developed by various organizations that
apply to laminated glass.
The Manual can be used effectively
by anyone in the glazing industry but is
intended for use specifically by architects, designers, engineers, component
manufacturers and installers of laminated glazing materials in buildings.
Several GANA members also have purchased previous editions of the Manual
in bulk to give to clients as a useful reference tool. Bulk pricing is
available by calling GANA Headquarters at 785/271-0208 and
speaking with Carol Land.
Pricing for the new Manual has
been set at $35 each for GANA
members and $70 each for non-
members. It is available
in both hardcopy document or in electronic format on CD. The GANA
Laminated Glazing Reference Manual also may
be purchased on the
GANA website, along
with the various other
GANA resources, at
www.glasswebsite.com.
SPECIAL THANKS
The 2009 edition of
the Manual could not have been revised
without the help of the task group
members. These industry experts include Schimmelpenningh, Peter Anderson of Viracon Inc., Michael Burriss of
CYTEC Industries Inc., John Bush of
Oldcastle Glass Inc., Michael L. Griffin
of Huntsman Polyurethanes, Jeff
Haberer of Cardinal IG, Bernie Herron
of Cardinal Glass Industries, James
Touchette of MJR Enterprises Corp. and
Rick Wright of Oldcastle Glass Inc.
The task group strives to make this
the most up-to-date laminating reference document available. As such, they
welcome the suggestion of new topics,
comments and clarifications from anyone in the industry. If you or someone
within your company is interested in
participating on the Manual task group,
please contact the GANA office at
785/271-0208. ■
B r i a n P i t m a n is GANA’s
director of marketing and
communications. Mr. Pitman’s
opinions are solely his own
and not necessarily those of
this magazine.
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One-on-One
An Interview With, and By, the Author
by Max Perilstein
n this great magazine there have
been tremendous interviews over
the years and, I must say, I am jealous. Even though I have a blog and a
column, I have always wanted to be interviewed. But I know I am not in a position to ever get that honor—so I
decided I would interview myself. The
best part is, if I say something wrong I
can blame the interviewer for misquoting me.
From the Fabricator: How do you
see the health of the industry especially
with the economy struggling?
Max Perilstein: I am surprised that
no one has gone out of business yet, if
that’s what you mean. I think many
people “in the know” expected some
players to fall by the wayside and that
has not happened. And this is at every
level. Glaziers thought their competition would start to reduce, as did fabricators, and there were even rumblings
of the same at the primary level. But it
has not happened anywhere … yet.
FtF: Is there anything more frustrating than the .30/.30?
MP: Heck, there’s tons of things more
frustrating, but right now nothing
should infuriate you more than the government passing a provision like the
.30/.30 that was slipped in at 3 a.m. and
with no idea of how it would work or
who it would effect. The whole thing is
pretty sad and its effects will be felt for
years. I crack up when people say this
item “saved” the window industry. All it
did was make more money for test labs
and consultants. A smart reinforcement
of a good program like ENERGY STAR
would’ve made much more sense.
FtF: How do you see the “green” building world? It seems to be as strong as
ever.
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MP: No, because, as far as I know, if
MP: It is, but it has its issues too. I get
just as many e-mails asking me to rant they read my blog they wouldn’t be
on the U.S. Green Building Council and able to understand it; it’s beyond a
its LEED program as I do the National third-grade reading level. But seriFenestration Rating Council. There are ously, I don’t because unfortunately
some serious holes in the LEED process certain people in D.C. only choose to
and too many designers will skip good listen to a select group of people and
building materials or techniques be- they rarely if ever open themselves up
cause they are in search of credits— to reality. When the Department of
and let’s not forget the whole Energy can have a meeting and call it
“greenwashing” issue too. Despite that, a “Building Envelope Executive
it seems like every decent job starts out Forum” and not have groups such as
wanting to be LEED-certified so it’s the Glass Association of North America, the Insulating Glass Manufacturhard to bash that.
Alliance,
the
American
FtF: What do you see being the hottest ers
Architectural Manufacturers Associproduct of the next 10 years?
MP: Building integrated photo- ation and the Aluminum Extruders
voltaics (BIPV). Hands down. BIPV Council attend, there’s a problem—
today is like low-E was in 1991; people especially when they prefer to have
are starting to grasp it but are ques- consultants attend instead of those
tioning its abilities. Eventually it will groups or instead of true commercial
breakthrough and become a major industry players such as Kawneer,
force in our industry. With the energy Viracon, Oldcastle or Arch, just to
push, having the glass working for name a few. So backlash does not
you will become more and more worry me, their uninformed ignorant
decisions do.
important.
FtF: And you wonder why you don’t
FtF: Any other product lines you see
get interviewed?
doing well?
MP: Yep, I deserve that. Hey, I am
MP: Well, I still think low-E glasses
and their advancements will be para- what I am. This industry gets stepped
mount. And I love the electrochromic on daily. I choose to have my voice
and thermoreflective glass (and the heard and I hope people can respect
whole range of “smart” glass to come). that. Something tells me I won’t be inWhat the people who take pot shots at terviewed again for a long time … ■
our industry don’t realize is that
we are making tremendous
strides every day in manufacturM a x P e r i l s t e i n serves
ing and fabricating these types of
as the vice president of
materials. Unfortunately, we need
marketing for Arch Aluminum
to do a better job of promoting
and Glass. Mr. Perilstein’s
opinions are solely his own
ourselves.
and do not necessarily reflect
FtF: Do you ever fear a backlash
the views of this magazine. His column
from the Washington, D.C. folks
appears bi-monthly.
you take on in your blog posts?
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Shame and Blame
Dear USGlass:
I read your article in the April 2009 issue concerning the
whining over the Freedom Tower glass buy-out (see April
2009 USGlass, page 30) and offer the following comments.
With regard to the persons and companies that committed their research and development cost to the project, one word comes to mind: “suckers.”
There is no point in trying to assist architects and public
agencies in solving their budget and constructability issues
on projects that ultimately will be awarded based on low
price.Were these people born yesterday? Even if they were paid
for their services, it does not solve the dilemma. Our investment of key resources is only benefited when we can manufacture a product in the end. Any company in the USA that has
a factory surely can identify with this.
As far as outsourcing to foreign companies go, we have
the power to change this, but greed continually prohibits
this from happening. There always is a glazing contractor
or erector willing to offer savings back to an owner while
taking on a risk they don’t even understand in order to
sell some contract work.
Glazing contractors that offer installation of foreign
products are the problem here. Public agencies such as
the Port Authority are not to blame for their low-bid procurement practices. Everyone out there that offers foreign
products on a building is either giving the savings back to
the owner or pocketing some portion (if they’re even
smart enough) but still are not recognizing the risk they’re
accepting that the owner is not taking on.
Stop offering foreign products and there will be no
more crying over it. Hear that, Zetian?
John D’Amario
Vice President - Sales
Architectural Glass & Aluminum Co.
Don’t Stop Pursuing
Dear USGlass:
In your article regarding the Freedom Tower (see April
2009 USGlass, page 30), the real issues are the underhanded dealings between the Authority and the Chinese.
This, in my opinion, is what needs to be exposed … along
with the larger issue of to what testing the Chinese must
submit their products before it is ever installed in a building. A very good example of “ooops, it’s too late now,” is
the horrible Chinese drywall debacle in Florida. This country has got to stop permitting untested products from
China to be shipped into the United States … period.
Please don’t stop pursuing the issue. It has wide future
ramifications for every citizen in the United States.
Bob Lang ■
Billco Manufacturing ■
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Glaston Merges Business Areas;
Closes New Jersey Location
s part of a company-wide restructuring, Finland-based Glaston Corp.’s pre-processing and
heat treatment business areas have been
merged into one new business area, Machines BA. The company also has announced that it will close a machine
manufacturing plant in Cinnaminson, N.J.
Glaston estimates the targeted annual cost savings from the merger and
A
improved productivity to be $4.5 million USD (3.5 million EUR) globally.
The merger will generate one-off costs
estimated at approximately $4.8 million
USD, recognized mainly in the second
quarter of 2009. Possible redundancies
will be analyzed and faced in compliance with local legislation.
Regarding the facility closure, the manufacturing of U.S. tempering lines will be
Kawneer Plant Closing to Result
in the Loss of 250 Jobs
K
awneer Co. Inc., an Alcoa company headquartered in Norcross, Ga., is
closing its Hernando, Miss., manufacturing facility at the end of this
month. As a result of the closing 250 employees will lose their jobs.
“The consolidation of our operations will ultimately result in a business that
is more responsive to market cyclicality and is more capable of servicing our
customers,” says Kevin Lowery, Alcoa’s director of corporate affairs. “We are
committed to maintaining high levels of service and will do everything possible to make the transition seamless. We will not do anything to impact customer service. We are contacting customers to discuss the transition so there
is no disruption in their service.”
The facility has an annual payroll of $12 million and has been in Hernando
for 41 years, making it one of the oldest industries in DeSoto County.
“Decreasing demand and increasing competition both inside and outside
of Kawneer are the primary contributors for the need to realign production to
other plants,” says plant manager Derek Wilson. “Our employees have worked
very hard at reducing costs, increasing productivity and driving to be competitive in a global market. I sincerely appreciate the hard work that everyone has
put forward, which has gotten us this far. However, the current economic downturn has forced us to this position.”
Wilson said they will work with state and Hernando officials to help employees. “As for the facility itself, we will transfer or properly dispose of any major
assets and eventually sell the property,” Wilson adds.
Earlier this year Alcoa announced it would cut 13,500 jobs, or 13 percent,
of its workforce, and curb production to reduce costs in the face of the economic downturn (see February 2009 USGlass, page 12).
Cuts are expected to be completed by the end of this year.
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transferred to Finland and China. However, a company representative notes that
Glaston will maintain its North American
offices in Cinnaminson. In addition, it has
decided to expand its services with the
formation of a service delivery center in
the existing New Jersey office.
According to a company news release, overall equipment efficiency can
be achieved by focusing on preventive
service check-ups and documented
service history, training and process
consultation, spare part inventories and
annual replenishment of spare parts.
The Service Delivery Center will aim to
respond to these needs with solutions
to improve equipment performance.
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Bohle America
Doubles Space
Bohle America Inc. has more than
doubled its office facilities at its Charlotte,
N.C., headquarters. The company has
added 176,500 square feet of warehouse
space to accommodate its new product
lines, and also has more than doubled its
office space in the last two months.
“We are rapidly developing our U.S.
operation and we need to grow both our
team and our facilities,” comments Gary
Dean, chief executive officer. “We recognized from the beginning that we would
be able to expand once we gave ourselves
some time to listen to our customers and
understand the market needs. Hence we
decided from the outset to engage flexible warehouse and office arrangements,
which would facilitate our growth.”
Dean adds,“These arrangements will
provide further opportunities for significant expansion of product lines and
sales support teams without the need
to relocate.”
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Curtainwall Processes via Autodesk
ermasteelisa S.p.A. will combine the use of Autodesk
Inc.’s architectural and manufacturing 3D design software and services throughout its curtainwall creation
process to improve its ability to react to customer demand, as
well as focus on increased quality of product and service.
The new Permasteelisa Moving Forward (PMF) system is
expected to accelerate the company’s ability to react to customers from initial inquiry to final installation. The PMF system is a custom suite developed together with Autodesk using
Autodesk software, including the Revit platform for building
information modeling (BIM). This new design platform will
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lazing contractor InterClad, an Egan Co. based
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“After almost 11 years in business, we have purchased
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president of Egan Company. “For my valued business
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can design a new curtainwall based on 3D models created in
Revit and then transfer the data to other teams working on materials and manufacturing to create a single 3D digital model in
Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical software.
Increases in Surety Bond Guarantees
Could Help Spur Construction Growth
In years past, many contract glaziers found it challenging to
gain surety bonding. In the early 2000s sureties incurred numerous losses and tightened up on underwriting and pricing, closing off opportunities for some small contract glaziers.
Then, just a couple of years ago, the industry loosened up and
bonding requirements became less stringent, making it a bit easier for small contract glaziers to gain bonding (see October 2007
USGlass, page 32). Now, even with the country in the midst of
an economic and financial crisis, some contract glaziers still are
able to bond their jobs with relative ease. Danny Davis, vice president and chief operating officer of Arrow Glass and Mirror in
Austin, Texas, says his company has had no trouble bonding jobs.
“Some commercial general contractors have made it their
policy that [contract glaziers] must have the capacity to obtain bonding,” says Davis. “We think that is good and look at
it as a competitive advantage.”
And help may even be on the way for those small business
contract glaziers that may have struggled to gain bonding in
the past. As part of the Recovery Act, those companies can now
qualify for U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)-backed
surety bonds of up to $5 million, more than double the previous amount of $2 million. Through its Surety Bond Guarantee
program, the SBA, in partnership with the surety industry, will
guarantee bid, payment and performance bonds. The SBA will
provide a guarantee to a participating surety company of between 70 and 90 percent of the bond amount.
“Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we want to get them up and growing again, as that
will help everyone,” says Frank Lalumiere, director of the
SBA’s Office of Surety Guarantees. “The country is in a tough
way right now and a lot is being done to turn that around.”
Lalumiere says that while construction may be slow, with
the Recovery Act money that is going toward it he expects to
see it turn around soon. And for those companies that will
be looking to take advantage of the SBA’s surety program, Lalumiere has a few tips they should keep in mind.
“They need to be sure that they have a current business
plan in place, that they have their financial statements in
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Many curtainwall installers and glazing subcontractors are
already familiar with project labor agreements (PLAs) but
now, with stimulus funds dedicated to federal construction
projects, installers can likely expect to see them even more.
Earlier this year President Obama signed an executive order
requiring the use of PLAs on all federal construction projects,
stating: “Large-scale construction projects pose special challenges to efficient and timely procurement by the Federal Government. Construction employers typically do not have a
permanent workforce, which makes it difficult for them to predict labor costs when bidding on contracts and to ensure a
steady supply of labor on contracts being performed. Challenges also arise due to the fact that construction projects typically involve multiple employers at a single location.”
But PLAs are not just for federal jobs; some say they have
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large-scale, complex installations. Several union organizations
with focuses on curtainwall construction say they are in full
support of the use of PLAs as they serve as effective construction management tools for quality construction.
Eric Dean, general vice president of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing
Iron Workers, heads up the association’s ornamental architectural and miscellaneous metals efforts, which includes
curtainwall construction.
“PLAs provide criteria for every contractor, builder, owner
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ngersoll Rand Security Technologies
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Going Solar
YKK’s Tom Minnon Shares His PV Experience
ith all the talk in the glass in- our state initiative and utility initiatives,
dustry these days about solar the system is literally going to cost me
energy and photovoltaics almost nothing …
Q: And how long have
(PV), it’s no surprise that
you had the system?
members of the glass industry
A: It went in … right after
are turning to solar energy to
the first of the year. The timing
power their own homes. Tom
was just right, as the new fedMinnon, CSI, CCPR, LEED AP,
eral tax credits had just come
YKK AP America Inc.’s reout so everything worked out
gional sales manager, installed
well from that standpoint.
a 2KW system on his home in
Q: Now you had menDerry, N.H., in January. After a
tioned you studied solar enfew months’ payback on the
ergy in school. Can you
system, Minnon shared with Tom Minnon
elaborate on that?
USGlass his research into PV
A: It was kind of an experimental
and where he sees the glass industry fitthing. We installed some solar hot water
ting into solar energy.
Q: What led you to install PV in panels in buildings; typically back then
[solar] was used for heating buildings.
your home?
A: It’s been 35 years in the making. There was a grant and two students
When I was in college back in 1974 I ac- were picked to work on the project, I was
tually worked on a solar energy project one of the two. I had always been interat the school that I was at in New Hamp- ested in things like that anyway. I was
shire. … When I got out of school in ’75 going to school in mechanical engiI went to work with Powerwall Corp. and neering, which is what my degree is in.
Obviously it was cutting-edge back in
they were opening a company called
Solar Components Corp., which is still the mid-70s. We had the energy crisis,
around today … Obviously in the last there was the OPEC oil embargo, peo30-some-odd years huge strides have ple were waiting in line for gasoline.
been made in PV as far as the efficiency There was this huge awareness in the
public of ‘Gee, we need to wean ourand manufacturing and all that.
Now, with all the incentives and the selves off foreign oil.’ Sound familiar?
Q: Certainly does. And it begs the
rebates and the tax credits that are
available, it just didn’t make sense not question: do you expect interest to
to do it. Between the federal initiative, wan in solar energy this time around?
A: I see a difference this time around.
Tom Minnon’s PV Savings There are so many people that are involved now; you’ve got the whole green
PV Costs
building movement, which has such
Installed cost
$17,000
momentum. We tried to go through that
State of NH rebate
-$6,000
back in the 1970s and tried to tell peoElectric utility rebate
-$3,500
ple about intelligent building design
Federal tax credit
-$5,100
and passive solar design, not to mention solar collectors and things like that.
$2,400
Net cost
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And there was some interest but it just
kind of went away. People forgot about
the oil embargo and the energy crisis
and changing political climates just did
not focus on or keep people’s awareness
on what we were doing. Next thing you
know we’re back to where we were and
we’re importing oil and here we are.
Q: Can you offer some specifics
about your latest project?
A: There were a couple companies involved. The company that installed it
was a local company here in New
Hampshire called SolTerra. They did a
very nice job. The solar panels were
made by a company called EverGreen
in Massachusetts, which is local. Part of
sustainable design is trying to buy
things that are made locally to cut down
on transportation costs. The fact that
the panels were made in the adjoining
state here was a benefit to me.
Q: Did you observe the installation?
A: I was here that morning … There
had to be an electrician involved and we
did have to get an electrical permit. We
didn’t need a building permit but we did
need an electrical permit because the
power from the solar panel comes down
and it gets fed into what’s called an inverter. The power that comes from the
solar panel is 12 volt DC. The inverter
takes that and converts it into 120 volt
AC, which is obviously what we all use
in our homes. It then gets fed back to my
circuit breaker panel. Then what happens is what’s called net metering. When
I’m generating more solar energy than
I’m using—so on any typical day when
my wife and I aren’t home and the sun is
out—then we actually spin the meter
backwards. On a good sunny day you
can actually watch the meter go backwards. That’s just a neat thing.
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We’re getting paid back in the fact
that whatever we don’t use in the
house is getting fed back into the grid.
I guess, in essence, my neighbor is
buying my electricity …
Q: So it only took the morning to
do? That’s pretty quick.
A: It was done in that same day …
There’s a racking system that goes up
on the roof, the solar panels get attached to the rack. And then there’s
wiring from the roof down to the basement where the inverter is. They were
in and out in that same day.
Q: Now do you think solar energy is
an area likely to become profitable for
the glass industry?
A: Where glass companies are going
to get involved is in building integrated
photovoltaics (BIPV), where they are
glazing the panel into, let’s say, the
storefront or the wall or sloped glazing
system. You’re glazing in a PV panel instead of glass so it becomes the building envelope. Instead of having a roof
where they’re putting solar panels on
the roof, solar panels are the roof. We’re
saving money there by not having duplicity of a fenestration system.
Let’s say we take a system where
there’s a curtainwall elevation and the
architect has designed in some PV. The
glass company needs to look at that and
figure out how they’re going to coordinate their work with the electrician who
is going to be coming in behind them
and wire these things together.
I would just caution when a glass
company is looking at something like
this—and I haven’t personally been involved with any—but companies that
have been involved that I’ve talked with
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wall but you, the glazing contractor,
probably are not installing the PV. It’s
probably a PV company you’re working
with or coordinating with in order to
get those panels glazed into the curtainwall and then wired up.
Q: I know there are projects YKK AP
has been involved in with PV in Japan
(the SBIC East Building is reportedly
Japan’s first case of total introduction
of BIPV in the building design, and
YKK AP Inc. produced the PV). Is this
a market segment that you see YKK
AP America becoming involved in?
A: I would say so, within the next
five years. With the interest growing as
it is—and we’re so involved in sustainability and green design around
the world—that I certainly see us getting involved within that timeframe. It
may even be sooner, I don’t have a
timeframe on it nor have we discussed
it. We’re certainly aware of the interest
and we have some experience obviously in having done it overseas on
several projects.
Q: Would you have any advice to
give to other building or homeowners
before going to PV?
A: Like anything, find a company
that has some experience, that you
feel comfortable with, get some references like you would for any sizeable
home improvement project. Check the
efficiencies of the panels.
Beyond that—nothing went wrong
so I can’t say here’s something you
need to watch out for … I can’t say
that I would have done anything differently. The system went in well. They
obviously had to make some penetrations in the roof to pass wiring down,
but nothing leaked. The power works
really well as far as powering everything that connects it.
… I’m looking at approximately a fiveyear payback. I look at it as return on investment (ROI). How many people can get
their money back in five years on anything? So I think that’s a pretty good ROI,
number 1; number 2, I have a $17,000 system on my house. It’s good equity should
I ever sell the house. And we aren’t stopping there. I just ordered a solar hot water
system that I’m going to install and just
this morning we had these same people,
SolTerra, out and I’m going to have geothermal for heating and cooling installed.
We haven’t stopped at the solar! ■
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Schott Solar Inaugurates Flagship
Manufacturing Facility in New Mexico
chott Solar inaugurated its Albuquerque, N.M., manufacturing facility for products used to
generate solar power on May 11, one
year after breaking ground on the project’s first phase. The 200,000-squarefoot facility represents an initial
investment of more than $100 million.
Schott has created 350 jobs at the new
facility, which will continue to ramp up
production throughout the summer.
Federal, New Mexico and Albuquerque dignitaries and government
officials joined Schott Solar executives
to dedicate the facility.
S
Gov. Richardson and Dr. Ungeheuer
sign the first PV panel produced at
Schott Solar’s new plant.
The new site is designed to support
expansion of both Schott’s photovoltaic
(PV) module and solar thermal receiver
lines. Long-term plans call for the buildings to expand to 800,000 square feet
with employment reaching 1,500 people, representing a total investment of
approximately $500 million.
For the first phase, the Albuquerque
facility will have an annual capacity of
up to 85 megawatts (MW) of PV 225
watt polycrystalline modules, sold under
the name Schott Solar Poly 225. In addicontinued on page 24
New Giroux Glass Facility Uses Solar Power
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os Angeles-based glazing contractor Giroux Glass has opened
a new fabrication facility in San
Bernardino, Calif., and has decided to
go green through solar power.
At the end of last year the company
purchased a 40,000-square-foot warehouse in San Bernardino to use as the
new fabrication center for the company’s custom and unitized curtainwall
and storefront projects coming out of
the Los Angeles headquarters, approximately 60 miles away. The facility also
will assist in fabrication for some projects based out of the Las Vegas office.
With the purchase of a great deal of
new fabrication equipment, the building has been retrofitted so that the
equipment runs off of solar energy.
“I was signing some checks here for
our utilities here at our facility in Los Angeles and was surprised at how high
those bills have been,” recalls vice president Robert Burkhammer. “I knew out
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So far 15 people have been hired for Giroux Glass’ new, solar-powered facility,
with plans to grow further.
in San Bernardino, with our new machines, the price of energy was going to
go up so I talked about it [with colleagues] and said why don’t we look at
using solar cells?”
Burkhammer already says, “It was a
good move.”
Solar Integrated Technologies in Los
Angeles provided the facility with its
building integrated photovoltaic (PV)
roofing product. With this addition,
Burkhammer notes, “We’re the very
first commercial building to have solar
power in San Bernardino City.”
In addition to the PV system, the
company is going green in a number
of other ways, including a recycling
program for cardboard and aluminum
waste. The company also has invested
in three Smart Cars during the past
few months to assist in conserving
fuel use. Through the facility’s location
within an enterprise zone, and with
the assistance of union local #636,
monetary incentives are offered to
employees that choose to carpool or
bike to work.
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tion to manufacturing PV, the Albuquerque facility is the first in the U.S. to
produce receivers used in parabolic
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Arch and Konarka
Develop BIPV Products
Architectural glass fabricator Arch
Aluminum and Glass in Tamarac, Fla.,
and Konarka Technologies Inc., a solar
plastic film producer based in New
Bedford, Mass., have entered into a joint
development agreement under which
the companies will explore development of a complete line of semi-transparent, glass building integrated
photovoltaic (BIPV) products called
Active Solar Glass® (ASG).
Using Konarka’s semi-transparent
Power Plastic®, ASG will come in a
range of colors that will give architects
and designers the ability to make every
glass surface in a building a solar power
plant. ASG will also incorporate other
passive solar technologies, such as lowE coatings, that will result in the industry’s most energy-efficient line of
window, skylights and curtainwalls.
“Until today, aesthetic and performance concerns limited the ability of architects to use BIPV technology in their
designs,” says Leon Silverstein, chief executive officer of Arch. “[This] announcement is about the creation of a
new product category, one that had
been unavailable until now. It is energyefficient and transparent, with superior
vertical performance and a subtle red,
blue or green aesthetic. With these features, BIPV will no longer need to be
confined to spandrel or overhead applications. An entire building can be put
to use, producing its own power, and
looking good doing so.”
With the ability to collect energy at up
to 70 percent off-axis, ASG can harvest
energy from nearly sunrise to sunset,
and can even be used on vertical surfaces. The Konarka film is also bifacial,
so ASG can harness energy from both
indoor and outdoor light.
Konarka’s Power Plastic® was designed using a proprietary polymerbased, organic PV technology that is
free of hazardous materials.
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country. With the lowest center of glass U-Factor in a double-pane unit (0.24 with argon fill), it offers the best
chance for your current window designs to meet northern zone insulation requirements. With a glass SHGC
of 0.27, Loå3-366® handles the hot south and the most stringent ENERGY STAR solar heat gain restrictions,
regardless of window size. Controlling heat loss in the winter and solar gain in the summer minimizes interior temperature swings, leaving homeowners more comfortable year around. Make every ENERGY STAR
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n times like these, savvy glass companies are investing in innovative and efficient new products to help them pull ahead of their competitors. New products
certainly continue to hit the market—from more efficient glass and windows to
time- and cost-effective material handling equipment and machinery—as evidenced by USGlass magazine’s 26th Annual Guide to New Products. Check out the
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PPG Introduces Five Blue
Architectural Glass Tints
PPG Industries in Pittsburgh has introduced five blue glass tints, giving it
a broad palette of tints and performance options.
Tw o
new glass substrates are among
the new options. Pacifica glass has been
added to the Oceans of Color collection
of ocean-inspired tinted glass, which
now has Atlantica, Azuria, Caribia and
Solexia glasses. Solarblue glass joins Solargray, Solarbronze, Optigray 23 and
Graylite glasses in the collection of
Earth and Sky Tones.
Three additional tints can be specified
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by adding Solarcool reflective coatings to
Pacifica and Solarblue glasses, or by combining Pacifica glass with subtly-reflective, color-enriched Vistacool coating.
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Guardian Goes
Low Maintenance,
High Privacy and
Fabricator Friendly
The durability and low maintenance
of ShowerGuard has been combined
with the distinctive beauty of privacy
glass through the new acid-etched
product from Guardian Industries in
Auburn Hills, Mich.: ShowerGuard
SatinDeco.
ShowerGuard resists pitting and stain-
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sealing process. The addition of acidetching leads to a smooth, flat surface
that disperses light and transforms transparent float glass into translucent glass.
ShowerGuard SatinDeco is available in
10- and 12-mm on clear float glass and
in UltraWhite.
The company also is offering Neutral
70, a fabricator-friendly low-E glass that
the company says is higher performing
and more aesthetically pleasing than
pyrolytic low-E glass. Designed for both
light commercial and residential applications, Neutral 70 offers U-value ratings as low as 0.33 and solar heat gain
coefficient ratings as low as 0.40.
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AGC Introduces
Ti-Ac 23™ Low-E Glass
AGC Flat Glass North America in Alpharetta, Ga., has introduced the
newest member of its Comfort Ti™
family of low-E, energy-efficient glass
products. Ti-AC 23™ low-E glass has a
solar heat gain coefficient of 0.23—the
lowest level available in a high-performance product on a clear substrate.
Because it blocks the heat and glare
associated with high levels of sunlight,
while still allowing high levels of light
transmittance, the company says Ti-AC
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The new VUE-50 insulating glass (IG) from Owatonna, Minn.-based Viracon
provides a balance of light, comfort, solar performance and sustainability.
VUE-50 features a visible light transmittance of 49 percent on clear glass and
more than 50 percent on low-iron substrates. It also provides low interior and
exterior reflectance and low UV light transmittance. In addition, it has a solar
heat gain coefficient of 0.26 and a light to solar gain ratio of 1.88, exceeding
the standard for sustainable design based on ASHRAE 90.1 requirements.
VUE-50 has a subtle blue-gray hue and, because the coating is applied after
heat-treating, its flatness is augmented compared to high performance coatings that are heat-treated after the coating application.
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trol are priorities, but aesthetics cannot
be compromised.
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Viracon Introduces a New VUE
(From left) VRE1-46, VUE1-50, VE1-2M, VUE1-50, VNE1-63
SGP is nearly invisible. JEB representatives say SGP is the suitable choice for
glass canopy applications, with its excellent edge stability suited for exposed
edge applications found in canopies.
Photo courtesy of Mary Dey of Anco Inc.
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This Glass Looks Alive
JEB Offers
Invisiwall™ Units
JE Berkowitz LP (JEB) in Pedricktown, N.J., has expanded its Invisiwall™
point-supported insulating glass (IG)
wall product line to include point-supported applications. The fittings have
an articulating head, helping to minimize glass stress at the holes, and allow
for field installation of the attachment
bolts for an efficient package for jobsite
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structed with tempered glass using
clear, low-iron, pyrolytic or laminated
glass.
Invisiwall also is offered for glass
canopies with SentryGlas® Plus (SGP), a
unique Ionoplast structural interlayer.
SGP is approximately five times stronger
and 100 times stiffer than traditional
PVB interlayer, allowing for thinner,
lighter laminates of equal or greater
strength and/or larger panel options.
When combined with low-iron glass,
LiveGlass, from LiveGlass International Inc. in San Francisco, is a proprietary laminated safety glass that is
composed of two or more lites permanently bonded together with multiple
independent layers of polymers. These
interlayers offer static and dynamic
control of the exterior climate for reductions in energy consumption. As an
example, the company says one layer
may warm the glass, one layer may reflect or absorb the heat of the sun, and
one layer may contain photovoltaics or
LEDs.
Company representatives say that
LiveGlass integrates seamlessly with
“smart” building controls. The monitoring of real-time energy performance
and automated controls deliver optimal
occupant comfort.
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Walker Adds New Textures
Montreal-based Walker Glass Co. Ltd.
is expanding its Walker Textures™ Nuance Stock line of patterned acidetched glass and mirror with the
introduction of the 300 series. The
stock line of acid-etched patterns is
available in five distinctive designs with
the 100 and the new 300 series.
The 100 series is an acid-etched finish that combines Velour and Satin for a
true sense of privacy. The 300 series is
a satin finish on clear glass for increased visibility to the decor through
the glass. Both of these series feature a
relief effect that adds character to the
glass surface.
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Digital Images
Decorate Your Lifespace
LifespaceART Inc. in La Habra, Calif.,
puts art to glass with is digital images
printing process. The company uses its
LifespaceART technology to add vi-
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DECORATIVE GLASS GLASS
DECORATIVE
Silastial’s Glass Masquerades as Granite or Marble
After two years of development, Silastial Glass
Works in Sidney, British Columbia, is now able to
produce an all-glass countertop that it says has
similar fabrication and handling characteristics
to granite and marble. The light transfer glass
consists of a 4-milimeter shattered outer layer
on top and bottom, laminated to a float core
ranging from 10 to 19 milimeter in thickness.
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This product can be produced from 100-percent recycled glass, miscuts from glass suppliers or new glass.
Because of the clear center core, the product produces spectacular visual results
when used in conjunction with LED lighting,
or Mylar graphics and some fabrics also can
be laminated into the glass.
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brant colors and opaque or translucent
images on any type of flat glass,
whether it be clear, low-iron, textured,
tempered, laminated, sandblasted,
frosted, insulating or even odd-shaped
glass. Images can be printed on lites as
large as 60 by 120 inches, as thin as 3⁄16inch or as thick as 1-inch.
❙❙➤ www.lifespaceart.com
fire-rated glass
Walking on
Fire-Rated Glass
DECORATIVE GLASS GLASS
DECORATIVE
Technical Glass Products (TGP) in
Snoqualmie, Wash., has introduced Fireframes ClearFloor™. The glass floor system is impact-resistant and fire-rated for
two hours; according to the company, it’s
the only glazed floor in the United States
with that level of protection. Fireframes
ClearFloor can be used as a durable, nonslip walking surface, if desired, and is approved for loads up to 150 psf. The
system is available for both interior and
exterior applications, and is UL-listed.
The
custom-built
Fireframes
ClearFloor system consists of two-hour
fire-rated Pilkington Pyrostop™ heat
barrier glass, a tempered and laminated
walking surface glass and a steel framing
grid. The unit allows for decorative color
frits and sandblasted glass.
❙❙➤ www.fireglass.com
Glassopolis is on
Fire with New Products
Toronto-based Glassopolis now is offering PYRAN Platinum. The fire-rated
glass-ceramic is produced on a microfloat production line for optical clarity
and to eliminate the need for surface
grinding and polishing. The company
says its latest offering does not have the
yellow-brown tint characteristic of
some fire-rated glass-ceramics and offers true color rendition though the lite.
Platinum is eco-friendly and is the
first glass-ceramic to be produced
without hazardous heavy metals. It is
available from Glassopolis in filmed
and laminated versions that are CPSC
Cat II impact safety-rated.
❙❙➤ www.glassopolis.com
curtainwall and glass wall
Vitro Finishes Pavia in Satin
The newest addition to Memphis, Tenn.-based Vitro America’s Classic Line™
of architectural products is Pavia satin-finished glass. Pavia is produced using
a special acid treatment process, which may be applied to either one or both
sides of the glass. The architectural glass allows light, color and texture to
blend for privacy and functional design.
Pavia is available in a variety of thicknesses from 2 to 12 millimeters in
clear, tinted and designs. It may be used for interior or exterior applications,
and may be tempered or laminated to meet safety requirements.
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GED Goes for ENERGY
STAR and Beyond
Manufacturers are striving to
meet the .30/.30 U-value and
SHGC requirements set by the
2009 and 2010 tax credit. GED
in Twinsburg, Ohio, reports
that its Intercept stainless
steel spacers help products
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CURTAINWALL
CURTAINWA
meet and exceed it. Intercept ULTRA
stainless steel carries a conductivity rating of 13.63 W/mK, as verified by the
National Fenestration Rating Council.
That translates into a 20-percent reduction from standard stainless steel, resulting in unit U-values that are equal to
or better than those found on other
competitive spacer product lines.
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EFCO® Enhances
Product Line
Monett, Mo.-based EFCO, a Pella
company, has launched its newest curtainwall, the Series 8700 (7-inch
Is it a Window or a Curtainwall?
The new Polytec™ 50 hybrid curtainwall system from
REHAU in Leesburg, Va., offers flexible single- or multi-story
window configuration capabilities. With slim 2-inch sightlines,
the system admits maximum daylight. This polymer-based system promotes energy efficiency with exceptional thermal
insulation, and can accommodate up to 1 916-inch thick
glass or panels for enhanced acoustical and energy
benefits. Offering a U-factor down to 0.28, it also provides water tightness of up to 25 psf according to ASTM
E331, and a patented drainage system protects against inside water leakage. The system’s encapsulated steel reinforcement ensures strength for architectural designs that incorporate large spans.
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and 8800 (8-inch
depth) unitized product line. The
curtainwall’s aesthetically pleasing 3-inch sightline, performance
capabilities and 4-sided structural
glazing option provide a well-rounded
design intended to meet a wide spectrum of job requirements.
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For lightness of touch.
DORMA TS93 in Contur Design.
With its unique cam and roller
design, the TS93 System in
Contur Design represents the
pinnacle of surface applied door
closers, enabling a door to open
much easier than one operated by
a rack and pinion closer. The ADAcompliant TS93 provides regular
arm operating efficiency with the
sleek aesthetics of a track arm.
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Labor Management Cooperation
Initiative’s comprehensive new
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provides the skills to compete
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Project Managers play key roles in the
finishing industries. Project Managers are
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completion of specific projects. You need the best trained,
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In an increasingly competitive global business environment,
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effectively deploy talented Project Managers is vital to
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or (202) 637-0798.
The Painters and Allied Trades Labor Management Cooperation Initiative programs
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Solar Innovations
Offers All Glass or
Unique Wood Frames
Wood windows, yes, but wood curtainwall? That’s just what Myerstown,
Pa.-based Solar Innovations is now offering. The 2 ½-inch-wide laminate system is available in Douglas fir and
Southern yellow pine, with numerous
custom wood species available. Wood
horizontals or aluminum purlins can be
incorporated into the structure to maintain design integrity. This system is in
the process of being tested for hurricane
resistance and thermal performance.
The company also reports that its
new clear glass wall system can be utilized for interior applications and light
exterior applications. This non-thermal
system has largely unobstructed sightlines and a clean architectural appearance. No vertical frames are necessary,
and narrow stiles are available. Several
sill options are available for this system
including the flush, surface mount and
no-sill systems. Clear glass walls are
available as standard hinged pairs or
independent panels.
is able to provide a variety of new environmentally sustainable products in an
increasingly green industry.
The company is the first approved
curtainwall fabricator for 3M’s new 23F
structural glazing tape. Its energy-efficient and environmentally friendly
building envelopes systems are available from fully assembled and glazed
curtainwalls to stock lengths, along
with engineering support and quality
control services.
EN-WALL Innovates
with Curtainwall
Alsip, Ill.-based Doralco has been
busy creating a host of new products.
Among them are two intended to minimize view interference from frames.
With 12 standard finishes, the Slim-
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air synthesis, building integrated photovoltaics, thermal and solar control,
daylighting and third-party product integration, Las Vegas-based EN-WALL
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Doralco is All
About the View
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line door rails for all-glass doors can be
used when a clean and crisp space with
minimal visual interference is the order.
The field-adjustable door rails install
easily and can accommodate up to ¾inch glass. The rails can be used in
combination with center lock, strike
housings and vertical stiles.
The company’s new standoffs also
can help create walls of glass with minimal visual interference. These structural glass wall brackets can be used to
design glass walls of any size.
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Raco Slides in a
New Aluminum Frame
A flush slider has been added to
Houston-based Raco Interior Products
Inc.’s Sliding Innovations line of interior
aluminum frames. The flush slider’s design allows it to fit a top-hung sliding
door with a center-glazed sidelite within
a standard 4 7⁄8-inch wall. The flush
slider has no floor tracks, which elimi-
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nates the unsightly trip hazards at the
opening and allows for a monolithic
floor at the opening, if desired. The
slider has a low profile head detail and is
compatible with the company’s line of
487 series components.
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CGI Offers Two in One
CGI Window and Door Inc. of Miami
is introducing a new horizontal rolling
window for hurricane protection that
combines the strength of commercial
products with the aesthetics residential
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ISOWEB Gives You a Thermal Break
The AA® 3200
ISOWEB®
sliding
door from Kawneer
Co. Inc. in Norcross,
Ga., was designed
to meet the challenges of thermal,
coastal and hurricane
conditions.
With the high-performance ISOWEB®
thermal break, the
sliding door meets
current
energy
codes, increases
end-user comfort
and provides capabilities for a dual finished product. For sound resistance the
slider accommodates 1 516-inch insulating laminated glass, or 1-inch insulating glass for improved thermal performance. A large wheel stainless steel tandem roller with precision ground sealed bearings provides smooth operation
of panels and protection against wind-blown sand and salt water.
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the architectural building community by providing
designers with the freedom to create beautiful spaces
that seamlessly combine vision, daylight and maximum
fire safety. From windows and doors to custom
engineered wall systems, count on us to deliver quality
fire rated products manufactured here in the USA.
Please visit us at
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our comprehensive line
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pact-resistant horizontal rolling window comes in sizes as large as 126 by 76
inches with design pressures up to
+120/-210 psf.
The company has introduced a largeformat, factory-glazed impact-resistant
window that has the look of a storefront
window. Available in sizes up to 60 square
feet with design pressures as high as
+133 /-210 PSF, the Series 410 system is
suitable for large punched openings in
commercial and residential applications.
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Peerless is Saving EnerG
Peerless Products Inc. in Ft. Scott, Ks.,
developed its new green series of EnerGsave windows to meet a demand for
better performance, lower U-values and
more environmentally friendly materials
than were available.
The company uses six
core extrusion dies,
various crimpable
polyamide strips
and simple hardware that rides in a
Euro-groove track
for its windows options. Configurations
can
be
produced in a 2 ½- or a 3 ¼-inch frame
depth simply by changing the polyamide
strips, which adjusts the frame depth
without changing the extrusion. Thermal
performance values as low as 0.230 are
available.
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Wausau Doors Welcome
ADA Requirements
For projects such as
residential towers and high-rise hotels,
hardware must meet the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility criteria. In response to this, Wausau
Window and Wall Systems’ terrace
doors now offer low-profile sills on both
in-swing and out-swing models for improved accessibility. Part of the Advantage by Wausau product line, these
terrace doors are pre-engineered, competitively priced and available on accel-
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erated delivery schedules.
The terrace doors feature a
polyamide nylon barrier that enhances
thermal and condensation performance, while a single, European styled
handle actuates multi-point locks.
have an almost unlimited number of
panels. The sliding panels glide easily
without the need of guides and channels in the floor.
NanaWall Launches
Single-Track Slider
Columbia Commercial Building
Products in Rockwall, Texas, has received large-missile impact approval
for its C2000 project-out, C2000 fixed
and C2060 casement window products.
The C2000 window series is designed
in an “overlap” style where the vents, in
the closed position, lay on the surface
of the frame rather than flush with it.
This gives an aesthetically pleasing appearance to the 2 1⁄4-inch frame depth.
This series can be self-mulling or use
structural mulls for larger openings
and has a full receptor system available.
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A curtainwall isn’t the only way to get
an expansive view. NanaWall Systems in
Mill Valley, Calif., offers glass walls—
and with its new VSW65 single-track
slider the operable glass wall can disappear within a pocket closet.
When closed, the wood-framed individual panel sliding door system can
lock end-to-end for an energy-efficient
seal and streamlined appearance. Each
system is custom designed to the size
and number of panels needed, and can
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window film
Solamatrix Ups Its IQue™
Solamatrix Inc. in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
has released IQue, its newest line of
spectrally selective solar control window films. IQue 78FG, engineered by VKool, is a full-fledged, spectrally
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Look Up to Weiland’s Lift-Slide Doors
Weiland Sliding Doors and Windows Inc. in Oceanside, Calif., has introduced
an AAMA/WDMA/CSA 101/I.S.2/A440-05 rated 16-foot-tall lift-slide door. A
pocketing 16-foot-tall, five-panel door achieved this rating using Weiland’s
standard flush track, which is only 316 inches above the finished floor.
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Commonwealth Launches
Architectural Line
Commonwealth Laminating & Coating Inc. (CLC), parent company of SunTek Window Films, has launched a new
architectural program. The program includes versatile new merchandising
materials, designed with the dealers’
needs in mind, as well as a complete
new product line.
To complete the existing architectural
line are three new product lines.
Ultra-VisionDS is a non-corrosive,
spectrally selective product that offers
high VLT, low visual reflectance and
good solar performance. Dual-ReflectiveDS is a dual-reflective film with a
neutral appearance and great solar performance. The specialty DR Mirror
product was designed for “one-way
mirror” applications.
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selective film with improved solar heat
rejection properties over clear glass. The
film features visible light transmission
of 75 percent, which is often required for
certain architectural applications. By
tapping the patented technology and
perfecting multi-layer dielectric stack,
IQue spectrally selective films are able
to filter out unwanted and harmful infrared and ultraviolet rays while allowing that desired visible light through.
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The vehicles are available via Allied
Body Works in Seattle.
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Somaca Offers
Free 18-Month
Warranty on Edgers
material handling
The Glazier and Contractor
Are Ready to Roll
Innovative new site vehicles for the
glass and fenestration industries have
been released by the Glass Racking Co.
The Glazier (11 ½-foot body) and Contractor (14 4⁄5-foot body) fit multiple
cab chassis and are multi-purpose vehicles designed for glaziers and window
installers.
The truck bodies feature a lockable
enclosed workshop and storage area
at the front, massive glass and window frame racking on the sides and
bulk glass and frame racking on the
bed. The load is secured using the
company’s spring loaded poles with
non-marking rubber polymer blocks
and series three scissor clamps. Use of
T6 aluminum keeps the weight of the
body down, while hot dip galvanised
mild steel components ensure
strength in key load bearing areas.
The Sommer and Maca Machinery
Division of Los Angeles-based C.R.
Laurence Co. Inc. (CRL) has a new offer
for some familiar products. The company is offering free 18-month warranties on all of its American-built glass
edging machines, including the VE1P
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THE ULTIMATE
MASTCLIMBER
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Improves production schedules
Reduces labor costs
Increases effective handling
Eliminates material breakage
Our mast climbing work platforms combine safety, versatility and capacity for medium to large-size
projects. Whether it is for mullions installation or final capping, for positioning glass panels or curtain
walls systems, Fraco’s mast climbers represent the perfect solution to vertical access. They offer
multiple and adjustable work areas and also help eliminate reliance on costly jobsite tower crane
to get material up to the building. Productivity is guaranteed.
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1-spindle automatic edger, the VEA1
heavy-duty edger, the VE2PLUS2 vertical edger, the VE4 automatic vertical
edger and the VE4PLUS1 five-spindle
automatic vertical edger. The offer expires July 31, 2009.
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machinery and equipment
IGE Brings in
the Glass Master™
IGE Solutions Inc. of Jupiter, Fla., is
bringing the TECHNI Waterjet™ Glass Master™ to the
North American glass industry.
Designed by glass people for
glass people, the Glass Master™
can cut from
1- to 100milimeterthick flat,
laminated
and bulletresistant
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glass without any set-up changes.
The waterjet comes standard with
easy slide rubber slat covers designed
to reduce scratching of the glass, airtight bellows, TECHNI’S break-away
head and Softec™ Glass Master software. The patented EZY LOAD material
handling solution allows glass to be
loaded in a vertical plane and lowers
the glass into a horizontal position inside the tank.
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Bohle GlassBuddy
Analyzes Installed Lites
Until now, several devices were required in order to obtain parameters
such as glass thickness, glass construction or possible coatings. With the
newest development from Bohle, based
in the U.S. in Charlotte, N.C., one device
does it all. The GlassBuddy allows users
to measure single lites, laminated glass
and insulating glass units with a thick-
ness
of up to
50
millimeters. The device analyzes glass
thickness and the airspace between lites. By calculating the refraction index,
the GlassBuddy recognizes coatings and PVB films and determines
their positions. Results are obtained
with an accuracy of 0.1 millimeters
through one measuring operation, according to the company, or it is possible to get an average from several
comparison measurements.
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The Perfect Fit for a Magically Clear Appearance
Pilkington Optiwhite™ Low Iron Glass
Enjoy crystal clear views at all times … even when the clock strikes twelve.
The clarity of Pilkington OptiwhiteTM Glass is remarkably noticeable in comparison to
standard clear float glass, especially on exposed, polished edges and when combined with
white or light colors.
Pilkington Optiwhite™ Glass offers enhanced aesthetics for a wide variety of applications,
everything from showroom and furniture applications to photovoltaic modules and solar
collectors. It is also ideal for ceramically decorated glass, allowing true colors to show
through. For additional information visit www.pilkington.com or call 1-800-221-0444.
For a happily ever after, ultra-clear ending, choose Pilkington Optiwhite™ Glass.
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Besten’s TAPE MT1500 IG
Line Increases Throughput
Jordon Glass
Laminates with EVA
Miami-based Jordon Glass Corp. has
introduced a new line of machines for
laminating using ethylene vinyl acetate
(EVA) film. The company says its new
line provides a simple and affordable
solution for laminating glass, noting
that EVA film does not require special
storage as PVB interlayers do. It allows
fabricators to use decorative interlayers
such as fabrics, rice paper or photo images to make artistic laminated glass
for a variety of applications.
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The new totally automated production equipment (TAPE) MT1500 from
Besten Equipment Inc. in Solon, Ohio,
enables insulating glass (IG) fabricators to produce between 1,400 and
1,600 units per shift on a single line.
The new equipment layout in the offering pairs two applicators in a single
line to improve efficiency and prepare
fabricators for higher-volume triplepane IG unit production.
The second spacer applicator on the TAPE
MT1500 drives the increased throughput, although camera squaring
technology added to the
applicator head also
helps total IG application
cycle time. When a lite of
glass stops beneath one
of the applicators, the
digital camera snaps a
picture and the equipment instantly adjusts for the location of
the lite on the application bed. Spacer application starts immediately thereafter.
Features for automated triple-glazed
IG unit production will be available
later in 2009.
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GlasWeld Goes Extreme
The next evolution in glass damage
removal is now available from GlasWeld
in Bend, Ore. The GlasWeld Gforce Extreme has been field-tested and proven
to handle almost any type of damage—
including vandalism, graffiti, acid-etching, hurricane damage, deep scratches
and more. The proprietary commercial
solution for post-installation damage
uses a progressive, three-step treatment
process. Purchasers are required to participate in product training at
GlasWeld’s headquarters.
The company also is offerings its new
patent-pending Gforce Glass Inspection
Station (GIS). The self-contained GIS
helps reduce loss and decrease scrap ratios during the production and distribution process by integrating glass
Universal No-Tape™ 304
structural thermal barrier polymer
Conserving energy, while
reducing greenhouse gases, is
possible in commercial
buildings when manufacturers
of fenestration products use the
Azon thermal barrier method for
aluminum windows and
Warm-Light® warm-edge spacer
restoration into standard operating procedures. The integrated glass polishing
station is floor-mounted and ergonomically designed for safety while removing
damage from all types and sizes of glass.
A proprietary, energy-efficient lighting
system allows operators to inspect inspection for defects while polishing.
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Frank Lowe
Says It’s Magic
In 1986, Frank Lowe Rubber & Gasket
Co. Inc. of Shirley, N.Y., brought to the
glass market a glass separator cork pads;
the static foam laminated to cork adhered
to glass without an adhesive. Twentythree years later the company is introducing FLowe Magic Separator Pads®.
These firm pads can be cleanly removed
from glass, vinyl and aluminum easily,
without residue or delamination because
for insulating glass.
Modern daylighting systems
produced with both Azon
structural thermal barrier
technologies will yield a
fenestration system capable of
upholding the highest efficiency
and sustainability standards.
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no adhesive is used. The company says its
product is denser than cork.
Standard sizes range from ½- by ½inch to 3 by 3 inches. The functional
thickness of FLowe Magic Separator
Pads® is between that of a 3⁄16- and ¼inch static backed cork pad.
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MyGlassTruck
Helps You Deliver
MyGlassTruck.com, a division of Demountable Concepts Inc. in Glassboro,
N.J., offers custom designed and built
full-body aluminum or stainless-steel
glass carriers for most makes and models of mid-sized trucks.
The “Value-Line” aluminum glass carriers offer an affordable and stable platform for transporting large loads. They
are constructed from strong 6061-T6 avicontinued on page 50
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I’ve grown to expect that from Viracon. Viracon’s differentiator is the quality of their product, their service
and their technical assistance. And that’s true whether I’m working on a four-story building or a fortystory building. I’ve worked with Viracon for many years and their commitment to quality glass and service
is something I knew we could count on. Do you want a turn? Contact us for details. Call 800.533.2080,
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glass railings
Livers Bronze Goes for
Maximum Visibility
ation-quality aluminum and aircraftgrade Huck® fasteners that provide
stronger connections between rack components than bolts, screws or welds on
aluminum that can crack when stressed.
The premium “Stainless Heavy-Duty”
line features welded 16-gauge stainlesssteel posts and slats that provide a strong
and rigid glass carrying platform for
heavy or difficult to secure loads. Stainless-steel carriers are resistant to bending and denting and typically have
longer service lives than other types.
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Kansas City, Mo.-based Livers Bronze
Co. has a number of ways to support
your all-glass railings.
For point-supported structural glass
system, the company’s high-strength
machined steel Bloks support ½-inch
tempered glass balustrade panels. Only
available with ½-inch tempered glass
lites, this system is designed to truly
give the floating appearance often associated with glass railing design. It incorporates three mounting styles, all
tested to ASTM 935 and 985 standards.
The top- and side-mount styles incorporate steel mounting blocks that are
field-welded to embeds at the time of
field measuring so that drywall or other
finishes can be installed prior to the
glass and railings.
“Perfect vision” was the idea behind
the company’s 20/20 pre-engineered
railing system. It incorporates the clean
look of a glass railing system with stylish low profile SS supports that can be
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either side- or top-mounted to the
building structure. Strength is coupled
with a variety of handrail and bracket
combinations to fit every situation. Features include maintenance-free stainless steel and highly styled buttons to
support ½-inch tempered glass lites.
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metal
SAF Now Offers
Acid-Etch Anodizing
Atlanta-based Southern Aluminum
Finishing Co. Inc. (SAF) has added an
acid-etch process to its anodizing product line. The company says the acidetch process yields better color
consistency than traditional caustic
soda-etch, will reduce color variation
and is able to hide some kinds of metal
defects that caustic soda cannot hide.
While SAF continues to supply soda
etch, the acid-etch treatment offers a
uniform matte finish that meets or exceeds all AAMA 611 specifications.
SAF also announced that it has enrolled in the PPG Duranar Certified
Applicator Program (CAP) as an
Americas Powder CAP member. The
PPG CAP program certifies member
applicators to apply high-performance
Duranar powder coatings for commercial construction.
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Access Hardware Supply is your
one source for LCN
LCN is well known for producing premium door
closers. They offer a broad line, including heavyduty closers for interior and exterior doors, with
fire/life safety closers/holders and high security
manual closers available in most configurations.
LCN also provides power operators and closers for
use by those with physical challenges, in schools,
healthcare facilities, sports arenas, government
offices and commercial settings.
Call Access Hardware Supply for all of your access
control and security products. Our team has the
knowledge base, industry experience and extensive
inventory to help you select the right products for
your applications. We’ve earned our reputation by
simply providing what our customers want and
expect: The highest quality products, great customer
service and fast shipping. No mysteries, just access
control made easy.
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14359 Catalina Street, San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: (800) 348-2263 • Fax: (800) 435-8233
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Sevasa North America Inc. in Sugar
Land, Texas, reports that its new nonslip glass—CriSamar® STEP—can be
used outside without risk, even under
wet and slippery conditions. The new
line offers eight non-skid glass designs
that combine luminosity and elegance
with resistance to scratches and stains,
easy cleaning and durability.
The company says its product won’t
wear-out or degrade with time, weather
or use. CriSamar®STEP is UL-certified
for use as floors, runways, stairs, footbridges, slopes, platforms and more.
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OMNIA Offers Timeless
and Modern Designs
With the introduction of OMNIA Traditions, OMNIA in Cedar
Grove, N.J., presents 14
ish allows for a traditional accent, by utilizing a unique process coating over solid
brass that retains the brushed steel look
with curvy, intricate detailing. Both finishes are easy to clean and provide resistance to tarnishing, pitting and corrosion.
All of the lever designs meet ADA accessibility requirements.
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new and existing knob and lever designs that can be integrated into commercial or residential projects requiring
a timeless style. All of the knob and lever
designs in the Traditions line are available in the company’s seven finishes
with multiple rose options. Locksets are
offered in tubular deadbolts or mortise
lock functions.
For commercial projects with a more
modern aesthetic, stainless steel and
Max•Steel latchsets and locksets are available. The complementary Max•Steel fin-
P
Ellipse Keeps
Doors Transparent
There is a new addition to City of Industry, Calif.-based EPCO USA Inc.’s
pivoting door systems: Ellipse. The Ellipse series incorporates a patch that is
smaller and heavier than the conventional patch that provides a larger area
of glass transparency while supporting
the same size door or glass structure. A
rich contemporary shape and polished
finish complement the glass.
The ST17 ladder pull and lock adds
to the contemporary aesthetics while
providing security to the heavy glass
door system.
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spacers
Edgetech Enhances
Super Spacer® Line
While representatives of Edgetech
I.G. in Cambridge, Ohio, note that silicone Super Spacer Premium and Premium Plus silicone warm-edge spacer
systems already offered U-values that
meet the .30/.30 tax credit requirements, third-party testing shows that
the new enhanced products can improve U-values and condensation resistance further because of its low
thermal conductivity. The improved
products will help customers achieve
lower U-values and improve condensation resistance.
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e-bentglass.com
recision Glass Bending specializes in the
custom fabrication of BENT GLASS,
one piece or thousands, for Architectural,
Fixture & Furniture applications. Capabilities
include bent glass in kinds Annealed,
Heat-Strengthened, Safety Tempered,
“One piece or thousands, our custom fabricated bent glass
Safety Laminated, and Insulating.
is bringing form and function to the designs of tomorrow.”
Clear, Tinted, Low-E, Reflective,
Acid-Etch, Low-Iron, and
Specialty glass for
CAD/CNC integrated
fabrication into TRUE
RADIUS (Curved Glass)
or IRREGULAR BENDS
in sizes up to 96" x 130";
3/32" to 3/4" thickness;
Polished Edges, Holes,
Notches, or Cutouts.
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Protective
T
Punch
Fabricating
Disaster Glass
Proves Successful for
One Northeastern
Company
by Megan Headley
he layman may view glass as a
delicate object easily subject to
breakage, but those in the know
are well aware of the strength that this
incredibly versatile material holds.
Employees of Dlubak Corp. in
Blairsville, Pa., may know better than
most just what kind of impact and
abuse glass can take.
Although the company was founded
in 1947 as Dlubak Studios to produce
stained glass, pure aesthetics are no
longer the focus (in fact, the stained glass
division was phased out in 1982). While
the company still does have occasion to
incorporate decorative elements, today’s
focus comes down to protection.
“We do what I call ‘disaster glass’
products,” says president Frank Dlubak.
Dlubak explains that this focus “really
started about ten years ago in Florida
with the hurricane [market].” Now you
can just about name a disaster and the
fabricator is producing a glass product
that can withstand it: hurricane-, tornado-, earthquake-, bomb- and bulletresistant glass all come pouring off of
the three laminated lines and out of the
five autoclaves at the company’s
Blairsville, Pa., headquarters.
For these safety and security capabilities, the company has eight bending
furnaces, four water jets, a high-speed
tempering line and a high-speed insu-
After nearly 50 years in the
glass industry, Dlubak Corp.
president Frank Dlubak
continues to lead the
company in producing
innovative new products.
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lating line. It is renowned for its innovation in curved glass, as well as for aluminum bending.
“We’re starting to focus more on our
laminated products,” says vice president
of sales Mark Kearns of that reputation
for complex bending. “These products
are still going to be there, but we’re
going to focus more on the security—
and there’s a lot more stuff coming.”
A walk through the 125,000-squarefoot facility in Blairsville will show
stacks of glass up to 9 ½ inches thick,
some in custom shapes and all providing the highest visibility.
“Laminating glass is relatively simple,” says Damon Dlubak, vice president
of operations,“[if] it’s just two pieces of
glass. But as that thickness increases
and when you’re also laminating with
polycarbonate to glass, it becomes a lot
more challenging.”
Luckily, the company seems to thrive
on challenges.
“You can never let your guard down,
when you’re producing the parts,” says
David Bazzano, chief executive officer.
“The tiniest misstep can be cause for that
piece to be thrown in the dumpster.”
With a strong team behind them,
and some unique machinery in place,
the company is able to provide its protective packages to meet just about
any requirement. That’s not easy when
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it comes to working with massive laminated lites—as shapes alone can
throw a curve.
“[Customers] come up with unusual
shapes,” says Frank Dlubak, “which
may take weeks to figure out how to
do.” He adds, “Picture things going in a
… trapezoid shape, which are laminated and you have to go through all of
the technology of lamination and make
sure nothing slides, and how to hold it
together and maintaining optics and
all of that. So a shape is a big issue …”
Military Might
A great deal of Dlubak’s glass is the
direct result of the company’s focus,
within the last six years, on providing
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protective glass for military clients.
“We deal with the all types of federal government applications,” Frank
Dlubak says.
Most of its work comes through contractors with connections in the various branches and necessary security
clearances.
“We actually started to make glass
for the military in 2003,” Bazzano recalls. “We were dealing with a contractor that called us and placed an
order. At that time he was asking us
for 100 parts a week and … 100
parts a week was like, we’re never
going to make it. After a couple of
months of doing that and figuring a
way out to make these parts for
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day-to-day effort,” says Fran
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president operations. Pictu Dlubak (right) of th
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“Not just on time, but
ahead,” points out project
manager Sunghoon Kim.
“It’s very rare to find that.”
In addition, Bazzano explains, when working for
these large government
contracts,“You have to be
standing by ready to
produce on a moment’s
notice.”
Chie
Although the plant is com f executive officer
pa
David Baz
zan
running around the challenny through a num
ges.
ber of th o has led the
e produc
clock, things can move
tion
from 0 to 60 in a snap, since
there’s no well of “custom inventory” explains.
from which to draw once that contract
The company has drawn on a
comes through. There’s just those variety of resources to accomplish the
stock low-iron and float glass lites— task, spearheaded by Kim.
from PPG, primarily, as well as Pilk“We have consultants working with us,
ington—as well as polycarbonate we also have students from the Univerfrom Sheffield and Sabic to laminate sity of Pittsburgh School of Business,”
into the latest project.
Bazzano says.
“They are specialty products and
In addition, a government agent vissomething could change, so we have to its the facility on a weekly basis to rejump in and get ready to work when- view the products.
ever the works hits us,” Bazzano says.
“He inspects the glass for the govWhile the work has been steady, ernment here before it goes out the
Frank Dlubak is well aware that this door,” says Frank Dlubak. “It’s good for
focus may change during the next four us because once he inspects it they take
years of a new administration.
ownership, and then we have an ac“You listen to the news and we listen cepted product right here.”
to some of our customers
Beyond the client’s inspections, the
that there’s a reduction in company follows the adage that everymilitary applications,” he one must do their part when it comes
says. “But who knows …”
to quality control.
Bazzano says, “When it’s cut, it’s inspected;
when it’s seamed and washed it’s
Ta k i n g C o n t ro l
inspected again; when it’s laid up, it’s inof Quality
According to Bazzano, spected. The final inspection is in the facone of the big differences tory plant where we have the zebra board
Dlubak Corp. faces in set up and the fluorescent lights … ”
Should customers find some problem
dealing with military
clients versus its archi- during their tests or once the finished
tectural glass cus- product is provided, careful records can
tomers is that the show the process—and inspections—
“quality is a lot more that occurred each step of the way.
“We keep good records of what we
stringent.” That ded
e
do,
” Bazzano says. “We try to maintain
mand
for
quality
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when
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tractors
on
the
U.S.
Army
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that
we
folrete
low through with ISO compliance,” Kim
continued on page 58
them, this customer calls me and
says, ‘Look, I have an order for 1,800
parts.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s great,
that’s wonderful.’ And he said, ‘I need
them next Friday.’”
With a week and a half in which to produce more than ten times more parts than
was the norm, the outcome should have
seemed doubtful.
Bazzano continues, “I got our supervisors together and I said, ‘we have an
opportunity. We have a challenge. Can
we do this? We can get this 1,800-piece
order. If we can’t we’re going to have to
turn him away.’
They stepped out on a limb and took
the job. A week and a half and some new
“techniques and processes” later,“we got
the 1,800 done—and now it’s not a
problem to do that on any given day.
Now 1,800 pieces is a small order for us.”
In one month, Bazzano says, the
company ships more than 25,000 pieces
of glass for its military clients.
Meeting a challenge like this would
cement a relationship with an architectural client and it turns out that a government contractor is no different.
“The government looks at suppliers
and they give them a degrees of value,
like 1-10. So far I think we’ve been at the
10 [end]—we’re always ahead of the
order,” says Frank Dlubak.
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continued from page 56
and go back and make sure that all the
right parameters were followed during
the processing of that part.”
Fa m i l y M a t te r s
There’s something else about the
employees at Dlubak that clearly
stands out—and that comes with the
Dlubak name itself.
Charles Dlubak founded the company in 1947, and Frank Dlubak
began working in the family business
at the age of 12. Today the family ties
run throughout various levels of the
company, and the family members
say the benefits far outweigh any
challenges that may come in working
with family.
“It’s nice having everybody work together with us,” Bazzano says. Bazzano
shares the Dlubak family ties through
his sister, Ave Bazzano Dlubak, Frank
Dlubak’s wife of 40 years. “It feels
good. Frank’s always there with a
phone call; you can reach him 24
hours a day. The family thing makes it
that much easier.”
Daughter Alyssa Dlubak Bodiford
has handled marketing for the past 10
years, having worked in estimating and
customer service for five years prior to
that. Three years ago Damon Dlubak
joined the company, and two years ago
Kim, who is married to Amy Dlubak
Kim, came onboard.
Not that there’s any pressure to join the
family business, Frank Dlubak says. Still,
he talks of his children’s roles with pride.
“I’m very proud of them,” he says simply.
Having trusted family members
onboard has helped shaped the
company’s success today.
“That bond is extremely strong,”
Kim says. He adds, “I see that pervasive throughout everybody here.
The average length of employment
for the salaried employees is around
17 years. And then out there in the
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plant … it’s around 7 years. So you’re
looking at a tremendously loyal family
base—not just this immediate family
but all of us.”
“We even have 30+ year employees,”
Bazzano adds.
Again, quite a feat, although as Frank
Dlubak boasts he’s just three years shy
of marking his 50th anniversary in the
glass industry.
Fifty years has brought a number of
changes to the company—but innovation has been a constant. ■
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I Learned at the Glass Fabrication
and Glazing Educational Conference
by Megan Headley and Ellen Rogers
A
fresh batch of faces learned the basics of the fabrication and glazing industry during the Glass Association of North
America’s (GANA) annual Glass Fabrication and Glazing Educational Conference, which took place this year April 68 in Cincinnati. The conference is geared toward individuals with five or fewer years in the industry as it provides an
educational foundation in a number of essential areas.
For those of you who didn’t make it yourself, we have a few of the essentials here for you. And if you’re not new to the industry yourself, we’re sure you’re eager to pass on your knowledge about glass to someone who is; be sure to pass along the following tips and information as well.
Oh So Trendy Glass
Ron McCann of Viracon addressed some of the latest
trends to hit the glass industry. When it comes to applying
these trends into practice, McCann noted, “The key is figuring out what the drivers are for your clients.” Knowing what
needs your client is trying to meet can help you as the supplier or installer steer them toward those “trendy” new products that are the most appropriate solution for their project.
McCann said that “much larger sizes” than previously
used are becoming the norm. In conjunction with
that, comes thicker glass and a move to low-iron, McCann pointed out. As lites become larger in area, an
increase in thickness is necessary to prevent bending.
With thicker glass may come a deepening of the green
tint caused by iron content, leading to further requests
for low-iron glass.
1.
addition to bigger, heavier glass, McCann said glass
specified for multiple applications. For exam2. Inisple,being
you might find on your next job a request for a
3.
high-performance coating on a glass that also must be
impact-resistant and fabricated into a thermally efficient insulating glass (IG) unit to boot.
McCann also addressed the growing demand for energy-efficient glass. New generations of glass coatings
will further help designers let light in while keeping
heat out. While double silver low-E coatings are popular now, McCann said, he predicts that triple silver
coatings will become more prevalent.
Cutting and Edging Correctly
Chuck Beatty of Edgeworks Inc. discussed automated
glass cutting and edging techniques. Among his tips were
the following:
The less energy you send into the glass while scoring
the cut, the smoother the resulting edge after the
break-out.
Use a sharper wheel angle for thin glass and blunter
angle for thicker glass.
said people often ask him how long cutting
wheels last. It’s different for different things, he said,
3. Beatty
but he tells people: “These carbide cutting wheels are
1.
2.
not very expensive … compared to the cost of the
glass. If an operator waits until the glass breaks to
change the wheel, he wouldn’t work for me.”
Find a lot more handy tips from
the Glass Fabrication and Glazing
Educational Conference by visiting
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Glass Tempering Systems for the 21 Century
Chuck Cocagne with Glassrobots Oy talked to his audience
about the glass tempering process, how systems are evolving and how many of these changes are related to architectural glass trends. Cocagne shared the following:
There are three types of tempering furnaces: radiation, convection and conduction. Radiation involves
heating with electromagnetic waves from the furnace heating elements. This once-preferred method
is not used as commonly as in the past since newer
low-E coatings are designed to reflect that heat away
from the glass. Convection heating is where hot air is
blown onto the glass; and conduction involves bringing the glass into direct contact with a hot material,
typically ceramic rollers.
said he believes that a large portion of future
glasses will have high performance coatings and
2. Cocagne
many will be coated on both the top and bottom.
1.
3.
There also will be a push for processing more ultraclear glass, larger lites and increasingly thinner glass.
“Furnaces of the future will need to be able to accommodate all of these demands,” he said.
Cocagne said we can expect to see tempering systems
include short cycles of convection heating, as the market will be driven by high production volume with low
operational energy consumption; a move toward hollow rollers, which can help minimize conduction heating effects and provide control for convection heating
from the bottom; and “smart” control systems for bed
loading, furnace heat control and quality control.
Passing the Test
Larry Livermore of Architectural Testing Inc. presented information on the successful “Testing of Architectural Glass
and Framing Systems” to ensure a finished project’s success.
Testing a mock-up in a lab or in the field can help to
uncover design issues and installation problems, Livermore said. “They establish a benchmark of performance and installation expectations,” he added.
Before testing, define the area of the mock-up to be
tested, whether it’s a run-of-the-mill portion or the
most complex part of the project, a flat wall or a corner, etc. Each party in the process needs to be involved
in the decision-making process, he said, which needs
to clearly identify responsibility for different wall
types. During the testing is when the contractor
should start to establish a benchmark of quality
they’re looking for in the field.
the test itself, Livermore said, “It would be a
good idea to have everyone involved survey the test
3. During
chamber.” If something isn’t adequate, it’s better to
1.
point that out before the unit fails the test. In addition, he stressed the importance of remembering to
go back to the mock-up drawing to note changes that
take place once the set-up or testing process has gotten underway.“This is critical,” he said. The owner and
test lab also need to be notified of any deviations from
the original mock-up design. Livermore added,
“Everything we do on the test we’ve got to carry
through on the drawings and in the field—so the last
thing we want to do is a band-aid fix.”
2.
Know About Mirror Before It Reaches the Wall
Rick Cummings of CKV Products walked an audience of
about 30 glaziers through tips and techniques for accurate
measuring and cutting of mirrors during a mirror installation
demonstration. Benny Walker of Vitro America provided some
additional tips and techniques.
When it comes to fabrication, Walker said, keep your
work area clean, since grit and dirt can hurt the mirror’s front and backing. Wearing gloves and vacuuming the cutting table area were some of the
suggestions he offered. For grinding and polishing operations, he stressed the importance of using clean,
fresh water and an appropriate coolant as a lubricant.
“pH is important. It can mess up your mirror, and it
can mess up your machine,” he noted, adding, “Machine set-up is so important.”
do not use
silicone … use mas2. “Please
tics,” Walker said,
1.
3.
adding, “I’ve seen
people send the mirror back and say the
mirror was bad when
the mirror was the
only good part. It was
the silicone.”
He also reminded the audience not to use ammonia
cleaners that can remove the copper layer if applied
on the mirror’s edge.“Then all you’re left with is silver
and it’s just like the silver in your home: it tarnishes,”
he said. “I cannot stress enough to leave that copper
alone and that means don’t put stuff on it.”
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Ensuring Quality Laminated Glass
The use of laminated glass in architectural applications,
whether for safety and security purposes or even sound control, has seem much growth in recent years, as has the number of glass fabrication companies offering laminated
products. To help companies understand how to ensure a
quality laminated product, Dan Laporte from Solutia Inc. discussed some of those issues.
Storage and handling PVB is an important aspect of ensuring a quality laminated product. Storing the material
in a way that maintains the packaging integrity will help
keep out moisture and contamination. PVB, LaPorte said,
has sponge-like characteristics and it will suck up water.
It also is an adhesive and will stick to itself if not stored
properly.“So store the PVB in a temperature between 40
to 50 degrees Fahrenheit,” Laporte said.
1.
cleaning and preparing the glass for lamination also is important. Make sure the glass cutting
2. Cutting,
equipment is in good working conditions so that lites
3.
are cut neat and evenly; change the glass-washing
tank regularly and use a water washing temperature
of between 120 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Dry the
glass thoroughly and uniformly.
A proper clean room environment is critical in assembling glass. “The room has to be ultra-clean,” Laporte stressed. If it’s not, the PVB will pick up
contaminants [that will end up as part of the glass].”
Laporte suggested having double entry doors leading
to the clean room to ensure the factory floor environment is not brought in and using tacky mats to prevent dirt from being not brought in on shoes.
Third-Party Inspection of Glass Fabrication and Installation
“Glass is so important. It’s the face of the building; it’s
where architects really try to express themselves so a [lot has
to go into] selecting the glass,” Israel Berger, president of New
York-based curtainwall consulting firm Israel Berger & Associates, told his audience as he explained some of the ways
third-party inspectors and consultants can provide assistance on projects.
Third-party objectives can include assistance in ensuring code and construction document compliance;
backstopping vagueness in codes and construction
documents; and verifying proper coordination between
glass manufacturers and curtainwall contractors.
might a third-party inspector be brought onto a
project? Sometimes it’s mandated by code and other
2. Why
time it’s requested by the owner or client. In other
3.
1.
cases it could be requested by the architect/engineer.
Third-party inspectors also can help verify quality
and consistency of the glass products. Inspection
methodologies vary from job to job, although a raw
material inspection is often used for flat glass. “Thirdparty inspectors can help the project team through
the construction phase … and understanding quality
control obligations,” Berger said.
When Insulating Glass Units Fail
Bill Lingnell of Lingnell Consulting Services and technical consultant for the Insulating Glass
Manufacturers Alliance shared tips
from his “Field Investigations with
Insulating Glass Units.”
For starters, he advised attendees that in conducting
their own investigations they
make their goal trying to
prove what they believe is
not true, so as to not run the
risk of coming to conclusions based on assumptions.
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an investigation, Lingnell advised checking for inon glass performance, such as replacement
2. Information
records and evidence of seal failures or breakage; re-
3.
viewing maintenance schedules; studying plans and
specifications; and checking with the installer and fabricator for additional background if needed.
The next step in the investigation should be to ask:“What’s
different?” By looking for factors that could have changed
the system in some way, for example, the investigator can
determine what may have led to the failure. ■
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eaction to the American Institute of Architects’
(AIA) Annual Convention in San Francisco was
mixed. Initially many glass-related exhibitors
expressed doubt that the aisles would ever fill, as
attendees trickled into the Moscone Center on
April 30. There were definite hot spots on the
trade show floor throughout the three-day event,
and many of those companies that had seen limited traffic were pleased with the focused attention
they received from the attending architects by the
time the show closed on May 2.
There certainly was plenty of glass to see from
the more than 60 glass-related exhibitors. Among
those products that were new to the show floor
were such trendy offerings as decorative and solar
glass. However, many of the products on display
had been introduced at previous conventions,
and several exhibitors confessed to showcasing
“the same old thing.”
Those “same old” offerings may have been a
result of strategies for waiting out the construction downturn, but yet another surprise on the
show floor was the number of businesses sharing
news about growth and recent expansions amidst
this troubled economy.
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While there was some question as to how the
economy would impact the show’s attendance, a
number of exhibitors said that they’ve remained
not only unscathed but strong throughout the
construction downturn.
According to Douglas Mahler, business devel-
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opment manager for Sheffield Plastics Inc., “The
stimulus dollars are coming through now,” a fact
that is leading to more government-type projects
that would require use of protective products such
as the company’s polycarbonate sheet products.
“This is a great show for us,” Mahler added.
“Probably everyone that has come by has a need
where we can help them.”
Dave Hewitt, director of marketing of EFCO
Corp. noted that the Monett, Mo.-based company
is looking to hire a number of people as blast and
government projects carry the manufacturer
through the construction downturn. “Schools
have been our bellwether,” Hewitt said.
Others also were excited to talk about how
they’ve been able to grow their businesses through
new locations and expansions. Ross Deeter, regional manager for Novum Structures, said the company has grown domestically and internationally.
“We’re taking the economic slowdown in
stride, but we’re still moving forward because we
know the market will pick back up,” Deeter said.
The company recently opened new offices in
Dallas, San Francisco, Florida, Germany,
England, France, Turkey and India.
Tom O’Malley, vice president of sales for
Doralco, noted that the Alsip, Ill.-based company
“started a composite panel business about a year
ago.” He commented that the business helps his
company to meet another need of many of its current customers. The company remains busy with a
number of high-end projects.
Sales manager Jessy Servol revaled that Klein
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USA Inc. has a new warehouse facility in
Elizabeth N.J. Although its products are manufactured in Spain, the five-month-old facility was
established to help expand the company’s reach.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Serious Materials has
been much in the news in recent months following
several acquisitions (see February 2009 USGlass, page
14), and its representatives showed at the convention that they’re far from done making a splash.
Over the next six months the company is aiming to
increase production of commercial glass and window products until that segment makes up approximately 70 percent of its business.
Energy Exhibits and Education
As has been the trend in recent years (see June
2008 USGlass, page 18, for last year’s AIA review),
architects came to the convention looking for
information about energy-efficient products.
“Because of sustainability in buildings we’ve
been looking at low-E glasses really carefully,” said
Glenn Rescalvo with Handel Architects LLP in
San Francisco. “We’re looking at the coatings that
are applied to them and how we can use them to
reduce heat gain and mechanical loads in the
buildings. Fritted glass also works great; we can use
it to the maximum 70 to 80 percent frit and still
get visibility while also reducing our heat loads.”
Ben Tranel, an architect with Gensler, also in
San Francisco, was interested in sustainability and
energy performance. He was especially interested
in glass with a frit on the exterior surface.
“Up until now we’ve always used frit on the
[inside surface] and on a lot of our projects we’re
looking for ways to put it on the exterior to create
a real contrast on the exterior reflectivity,” Tranel
said. He also was searching for sustainability in
the way of triple-glazed insulating glass units and
argon-filled glass, as well as the “next generation”
of high performance low-E coatings.
Edgetech I.G. Inc. had in its booth a Pittsburgh
Corning glass block that it’s helping to insulate,
combining energy performance with style. The new
energy-efficient glass block features a low-E coated
lite sandwiched inside the block to filter out solar
heat gain, and sealed courtesy of Edgetech.
However, among the most energy-efficient
products at the show were those actually generating energy.
“It also seems like everyone has building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) panels displayed in
their booths. It’s something we have not really
used yet, but it’s something everybody seems to
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Arch Aluminum & Glass debuted its Active Solar Glass
products at the AIA Expo. The transparent green sample
is on the left, with the red color on the right.
be offering,” Tranel observed.
Guardian Industries was one such company
spotlighting BIPV. The company utilizes thin film
technology, based on copper-indium-sulfide (CIS)
technology, in its modules as the company says
this technology has greater absorption properties
than others and provides thin, efficient modules
with an attractive neutral gray/black appearance.
Although the big model in the booth was two
modules laminated together, Chris Dolan, director, commercial glass program, noted, “We can
make these in larger sizes from two, three, four
modules laminated together.” The standard size
module from the company measures 26 by 50
inches. Guardian’s display, which was fabricated
in cooperation with JE Berkowitz LP and Eureka
Metal & Glass Services, simulated the energy produced through BIPV in a laminated and insulating glass unit.
For some solar exhibitors, visibility was key.
Arch Aluminum and Glass in Tamarac, Fla.,
and Konarka Technologies Inc., a solar plastic
film producer based in New Bedford, Mass., used
the show as an opportunity to announce a joint
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More Products, More Architects
To further get your new-product fix, turn to page 26 for the USGlass
26th Annual Guide to New Products, including many of those featured at
the American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Annual Convention.
For more AIA, make plans for next year’s convention, to be held June
10-12 in Miami.
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development agreement. Under the agreement,
the companies will develop a line of semi-transparent, glass BIPV products called Active Solar
Glass® (ASG).
According to Max Perilstein, Arch’s vice president of marketing, the product “will change the
world of BIPV. The key is that you will be able to
see through our BIPV” (see article on page 24).
Schüco brought its E2 façade to San Francisco.
The façade combines decentralized ventilation,
automated opening units, solar shading and solar
energy generation with the latest thin-film technology—all in one aesthetically pleasing package.
According to Rick Shetterly, who helped to man
Many companies, including Pilkington, displayed an
array of glass products.
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that booth, the E2 lites, now in the final stages of
development, create enough energy to operate
themselves.
PPG Industries showcased its Solarphire AR
(anti-reflective) glass, which is engineered to maximize solar energy transmission to solar-collecting
PV cells. Many architects stopped by the booth
interested in the product, said James Bogdan,
manager of green building initiatives for PPG.
Decorative Highlights
While performance, in the way of green and
sustainability, were high priorities for attendees,
so, too, was appearance. From color, to patterns,
textures and even a combination of all three,
attendees found plenty of new decorative glass.
“Architects are very interested in decorative
glass,” said Jeff Nichols, vice president of sales
and marketing for Standard Bent Glass. His company now has the equipment to manufacture
compound, complex bent/curved glass. “We can
bend the glass into 3-D shapes,” said Nichols,
who added with their laminating capabilities they
can also create decorative, curved, safety/security
glass. “That’s something else we’re seeing—the
combination of safety or ballistic glass that’s also
decorative,” Nichols added.
Digitally printed glass products were among
some of the newest developments at the show.
NGI Designer Glass actually showcased its
booth, which was constructed to feature its
brand new product: SubliStyle. The product
involves the reproduction of digital, high-definition photography and artwork onto glass. It was
co-developed with VanDijken Glas out of
Amsterdam and together they are partnering
with Peter Sterling, an Amsterdam-based photographer who has contracts with a number of
museums to photograph many of the world’s
masterpieces.
General Glass International promoted its new
direct-to-glass digitally printing capabilities.
Richard Balik, vice president of sales, said there
was much interest in the product, brand-named
Alice.
“Architects are excited about all of the applications in which this can be used,” he said. “The
process involves ink-jet printing a permanent
ceramic frit image onto glass, which will not fade.
It’s also possible to print large formats onto
glass.”
Oldcastle Glass® introduced its digital printed
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glass, i-Glass™. The process also involves printing the images
directly onto glass. The company says it can even replicate
the look of wood or marble.
Acid-etched products also were well represented. For
Walker Glass its patterned acid-etched glass and mirrors were
a key focus. Marc Deschamps, business development manager, says, “We are trying to educate the architects and the
design community on the products and ways that they can
be used, both interior and exterior.”
Likewise, Guardian Industries introduced SunGuard
SatinDeco glass, which combines the energy-saving properties of SunGuard architectural glass with the acid-etched
quality and aesthetics of SatinDeco.
Likewise, Goldray displayed an array of decorative
options, from printed glass for walls and partitions; products
for floors and stairs; and even its new marker boards, which
Cathie Saroka, marketing director, said got tremendous feedback from attendees. AG
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Reviews&Previews
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biannual exhibition of machinery, equipment and
systems for glass processing. The event will next
take place at the Fiera Milano Complex in Rho, Italy, October 28-31. Event organizers say it will provide an
overview of the industry’s growth prospects for 2010
through three themed areas devoted to flat glass, hollow
glass and sources of renewable energy. More than 600
Italian and international companies are expected to exhibit, and show organizers are expecting approximately
25,000 people to attend the 4-day event.
More than 750,000 square feet of exhibition space
will provide room for displaying the latest technological
innovations in the glass industry. Exhibits, seminars
and various glass processing demonstrations are
being planned, as are performances by the glass masters of Murano.
Vitrum Energy 2009, the most recent addition to the
show, is where visitors will discover what the glass industry has to offer in terms of energy-saving materials.
The new section will provide visitors with the opportunity to explore innovations from international manufacturers and to preview the solutions that will improve the
energy efficiency of homes and buildings. Products from
thermal and photovoltaic panels to coatings for facades
and windows all will be spotlighted in this arena.
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for Glass Expo Midwest ’10™
Mark your calendars—dates have been set for Glass
Expo Midwest 2010™. The regional trade show for the
architectural glass and fenestration industries, sponsored by USGlass magazine, will be held March 16-17,
2010, at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center in Schaumburg, Ill., just outside of Chicago.
The Renaissance Hotel already is offering a discount
room rate of $139 per single/double, plus tax, through
February 26, 2010. To make your room reservations, call
800/468-3571 and mention that you are with Glass Expo
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NORTH AMERICAN EVENTS
July 20-23, 2009
NFRC Summer
Membership Meeting
Sponsored by the
National Fenestration
Rating Council (NFRC).
Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel.
Baltimore.
Contact: NFRC at
301/589-1776.
September 16-25, 2009
DHI Annual
Conference and Exposition
Sponsored by the Door and
Hardware Institute (DHI).
Gaylord Palms Resort
and Convention Center.
Orlando, Fla.
Contact: Stephen Hildebrand
at 717/859-5905.
September 20-23, 2009
AAMA National Fall Conference
Sponsored by the American
Architectural Manufacturers
Association (AAMA).
Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort.
Henderson, Nev.
Contact: AAMA
at 847/303-5664.
September 22-24, 2009
2009 AEC Management
Conference
Sponsored by Aluminum
Extrusion Council (AEC).
Hilton Chicago – O’Hare Airport.
Chicago.
Contact: AEC at 847/526-2010.
September 30October 2, 2009
GlassBuild America
Co-sponsored by the Glass
Association of North America,
AAMA, the Insulating Glass
Manufacturers Alliance, the
Bath Enclosure Manufacturers
Association and the
National Glass Association.
Georgia World Congress Center.
Atlanta.
Contact: Show organizers at
866/342-5642, ext. 300.
October 6-8, 2009
Metalcon International
Sponsored by the Metal
Construction Association (MCA).
Tampa Convention Center.
Tampa, Fla.
Contact: MCA at 617/965-0055.
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October 25-27, 2009
Aluminum Association
Annual Meeting
Sponsored by the
Aluminum Association.
Charleston Place.
Charleston, S.C.
Contact: Pamela Dorsey
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November 9-12, 2009
Win-Door North America
Sponsored by the Canadian
Window and Door
Manufacturers Association.
Metro Toronto Convention
Center, North Hall.
Toronto.
Contact: Show organizers
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November 10-12, 2009
GreenBuild 2009
Sponsored by the U.S. Green
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Phoenix Convention Center.
Phoenix, Ariz.
Contact: USGBC
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December 8-10, 2009
Ecobuild America
Sponsored by AEC Science
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TBA.
Washington, D.C.
Contact: AEC
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INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
July 8-10, 2009
Glasstech Asia 2009
Organized by Conference
and Exhibition Management
Services Pte Ltd (CEMS).
IMPACT Arena Exhibition
and Convention Center.
Bangkok, Thailand.
Contact: CEMS
at 65 6278 8666.
October 14-16, 2009
Fenestration China 2009
Organized by CIEC
Exhibition Company Ltd.
China International
Exhibition Centre.
Beijing.
Contact: USGlass
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October 18-21, 2009
Glassex 2009
Sponsored by Emap Connect.
National Exhibition Center.
Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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Dow Corning Corporation
2200 West Salzburg Road
Midland, MI 48686
Phone: 989/496-6000
www.dowcorning.com/construction
construction@dowcorning.com
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
Glazing Compounds
Omaha Wholesale Hardware
1201 Pacific Street
Omaha, NE 68108
Phone: 800/238-4566
Fax: 402/444-1659
VETROTECH Saint-Gobain
2108 B Street NW, Suite 110
Auburn, WA 98001
Phone: 888/803-9533
Fax: 253/333-5166
www.vetrotechusa.com
Tekon Universal Sciences Inc.
Truly Long Lasting Non-Toxic
Super Hydrophobic Nanotechnology
Glass Coatings & Treatments
15471 Redhill Ave. #A
Tustin, CA 92780
Phone: 888/749-8638
Fax: 714/259-0882
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Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
Fire-Rated Glass,
Impact Resistant
AGC InterEdge Technologies
85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 110B
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 877/376-3343
Fax: 415/289-0326
www.firesafe-glass.com
Virginia Glass Products Corp.
P.O. Box 5431
Martinsville, VA 24115
Phone: 800/368-3011
Fax: 276/956-3020
General Glass International
101 Venture Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
Phone: 201/553-1850
Fax: 201/553-1851
www.generalglass.com
sales@generalglass.com
ARCHITECTURAL GLASS
Berman Glass Editions
1-1244 Cartwright Street
Vancouver, BC V6H3R8
Canada
Phone: 604/684-8332
Fax: 604/684-8373
www.bermanglass.com
info@bermanglass.com
General Glass International
101 Venture Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
Phone: 201/553-1850
Fax: 201/553-1851
www.generalglass.com
sales@generalglass.com
Oldcastle Glass®
Over 68 manufacturing
locations throughout
North America
Phone: 866/653-2278
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965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
SAFTI FIRST™ Fire
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325 Newhall Street
San Francisco, CA 94124-1432
Phone: 888/653-3333
Fax: 415/824-5900
www.safti.com
info@safti.com
Acid Etched Glass
Bear Glass
399 20th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Phone: 718/832-3604
Fax: 718/832-0786
www.bearglass.com
Walker Glass Co. Ltd.
9551 Ray Lawson
Montreal, QC H7X 3K7 Canada
Phone: 888/320-3030
Fax: 514/351-3010
www.walkerglass.com
sales@walkerglass.com
Decalite Ltd.
The Portergate Ecclesall Road
Sheffield S11-8NX, UK
Phone: 01142-096096
Fax: 01142-096001
VETROTECH Saint-Gobain
2108 B Street NW, Suite 110
Auburn, WA 98001
Phone: 888/803-9533
Fax: 253/333-5166
www.vetrotechusa.com
Fire-Rated Glass
Hurricane-Resistant
Block
Bent/Curved
AGC InterEdge Technologies
85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 110B
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 877/376-3343
Fax: 415/289-0326
www.firesafe-glass.com
California Glass Bending
320 E. Harry Bridges Blvd.
Wilmington, CA 90744
Ph: 800/223-6594
Fax: 310/549-5398
www.calglassbending.com
glassinfo@calglassbending.com
SAFTI FIRST™ Fire
Rated Glazing Solutions
325 Newhall Street
San Francisco, CA 94124-1432
Phone: 888/653-3333
Fax: 415/824-5900
www.safti.com
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Coastal Glass Distributors
7421 East Spartan Blvd.
Charleston, SC 29418
Phone: 800/868-4527
Fax: 800/314-4436
www.coastalglassdist.com
thartley@coastalglassdist.com
Glasslam
1601 Blount Rd.
Pompano Beach, FL 33069
Phone: 954/975-3233
Fax: 954/975-3225
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SAFTI FIRST™ Fire
Rated Glazing Solutions
325 Newhall Street
San Francisco, CA 94124-1432
Phone: 888/653-3333
Fax: 415/824-5900
www.safti.com
info@safti.com
Insulating
Arch Aluminum & Glass
10200 NW 67th St.
Tamarac, FL 33321
Phone: 800/432-8132
Fax: 954/724-9293
www.archaluminum.net
info@archaluminum.net
Laminated
Arch Aluminum & Glass
10200 NW 67th St.
Tamarac, FL 33321
Phone: 800/432-8132
Fax: 954/724-9293
www.archaluminum.net
info@archaluminum.net
Glasslam
1601 Blount Rd.
Pompano Beach, FL 33069
Phone: 954/975-3233
Fax: 954/975-3225
www.glasslam.com
Fire & Safety Rated Wire
Ray-Bar Engineering Corp.
697 W. Foothill Blvd.
Azusa, CA 91702
Phone: 800/567-9729 or
800/567-XRAY
Fax: 626/969-6510
www.xrayglass.com
sales@xrayglass.com
X-Ray Fluoroscopic
Amerope Enterprises Inc.
150 Commerce Rd.
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
Phone: 800/327-3320
Fax: 561/737-3721
www.amerope.com
claire@amerope.com
Ray-Bar Engineering Corp.
697 W. Foothill Blvd.
Azusa, CA 91702
Phone: 800/567-9729 or
800/567-XRAY
Fax: 626/969-6510
www.xrayglass.com
sales@xrayglass.com
X-Ray Protective
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
Amerope Enterprises Inc.
150 Commerce Rd.
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
Phone: 800/327-3320
Fax: 561/737-3721
www.amerope.com
claire@amerope.com
Pattern Glass
Coastal Glass Distributors
7421 East Spartan Blvd.
Charleston, SC 29418
Phone: 800/868-4527
Fax: 800/314-4436
www.coastalglassdist.com
thartley@coastalglassdist.com
Radiation Shielding
Amerope Enterprises Inc.
150 Commerce Rd.
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
Phone: 800/327-3320
Fax: 561/737-3721
www.amerope.com
claire@amerope.com
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Ray-Bar Engineering Corp.
697 W. Foothill Blvd.
Azusa, CA 91702
Phone: 800/567-9729 or
800/567-XRAY
Fax: 626/969-6510
www.xrayglass.com
sales@xrayglass.com
ARCHITECTURAL
GLASS/LAMINATED
Oldcastle Glass®
Over 68 manufacturing
locations throughout
North America
Phone: 866/653-2278
www.oldcastleglass.com
SAFTI FIRST™ Fire
Rated Glazing Solutions
325 Newhall Street
San Francisco, CA 94124-1432
Phone: 888/653-3333
Fax: 415/824-5900
www.safti.com
info@safti.com
ARCHITECTURAL
GLASS/TEMPERED
C.R. Laurence Co. Inc.
2503 E Vernon Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90058
Phone: 800/421-6144
Fax: 800/262-3299
www.crlaurence.com
Virginia Glass Products Corp.
P.O. Box 5431
Martinsville, VA 24115
Phone: 800/368-3011
Fax: 276/956-3020
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
ARCHITECTURAL METAL
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
EFCO Corporation
1000 County Road
Monett, MO 65708
Phone: 800/221-4169
Fax: 417/235-7313
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
Shower Door Hardware
Oldcastle Glass®
Over 68 manufacturing
locations throughout
North America
Phone: 866/653-2278
www.oldcastleglass.com
Dies/Custom Metal
BATHROOM SPECIALTIES
US Horizon Mfg., Inc.
28577 Industry Dr.
Valencia, CA 91355
Phone: 877/728-3874
Fax: 888/440-9567
www.ushorizon.com
BULLET RESISTANT
BARRIERS
Total Security Solutions, Inc.
170 National Park Drive
Fowlerville, MI 48836
Phone: 866/930-7807
www.totalsecuritysolutionsinc.com
COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Albat + Wirsam
North America
1540 Cornwall Rd., Suite 214
Oakville, ON L6J 7W5
Phone: 905/338-5650
Fax: 905/338-5671
www.albat-wirsam.com
moreinfo@albat-wirsam.com
PMC Software Inc.
Bartles Corner Business Park
8 Bartles Corner Rd., Suite 11
Flemington, NJ 08822
Phone: 908/806-7824
Fax: 908/806-3951
www.pmcsoftware.com
Point of Sale
Quest Software Inc.
1000 E. Sturgis St., Suite 8
St. Johns, MI 48879
Phone: 800/541-2593
Fax: 517/224-7067
www.questsoftware.com
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DECORATIVE GLASS
DOORS
Bullet Resistant
Oldcastle Glass®
Over 68 manufacturing
locations throughout
North America
Phone: 866/653-2278
www.oldcastleglass.com
Taricco Corporation
1500 W. 16th Street
Long Beach, CA 90813
Phone: 562/437-5433
Fax: 562/901-3932
www.taricco.com
spence@taricco.com
United States
Bullet Proofing, Inc.
16201 Branch Court
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Phone: 301/218-7920
Fax: 301/218-7925
www.usbulletproofing.com
info@usbulletproofing.com
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
WORLD glass
TM
THE
DECORATIVE
GL A SS
SOUR CE
World Glass
4014 Gunn Highway, Suite 160
Tampa, FL 33618
Phone: 888/852-2550
Fax: 813/265-4293
www.WorldGlassAG.com
Etched Glass
Walker Glass Co. Ltd.
9551 Ray Lawson
Montreal, QC H7X 3K7 Canada
Phone: 888/320-3030
Fax: 514/351-3010
www.walkerglass.com
sales@walkerglass.com
Painted
Bear Glass
399 20th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Phone: 718/832-3604
Fax: 718/832-0786
www.bearglass.com
Decorative Glass Company
14647 Lull Street
Van Nuys, CA 91405-1209
Phone: 800/768-3109
Fax: 818/785-7429
Textured Glass
Coastal Glass Distributors
7421 East Spartan Blvd.
Charleston, SC 29418
Phone: 800/868-4527
Fax: 800/314-4436
www.coastalglassdist.com
thartley@coastalglassdist.com
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Closers
Metal Clad Doors
Track Caps
Doralco
11901 S. Austin Ave., Suite 301
Alsip, IL 60803
Phone: 708/388-9324
Fax: 708/388-9392
www.doralco.com
Johnson Bros. Metal Forming
5520 McDermott Dr.
Berkeley, IL 60163
Phone: 708/449-7050
Fax: 708/449-0042
Sliding Doors
GLASS FURNITURE
Table Tops
Doralco
11901 S. Austin Ave., Suite 301
Alsip, IL 60803
Phone: 708/388-9324
Fax: 708/388-9392
www.doralco.com
DOORS, OTHER
Spancraft Ltd.
920 Railroad Ave.
Woodmere, NY 11598
Phone: 516/295-0055
Fax: 516/569-3333
www.spancraft.com
Jordan@Spancraft.com
GLASS HANDLING/
TRANSPORTATION
Access Hardware Supply
14359 Catalina Street
San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: 800/348-2263
Fax: 510/483-4500
Virginia Glass Products Corp.
P.O. Box 5431
Martinsville, VA 24115
Phone: 800/368-3011
Fax: 276/956-3020
Fire-Rated
Framing Systems
DOOR COMPONENTS
Rolltech Industries
11 Dansk Court
Toronto, ON M9W 5N6 Canada
Phone: 419/337-0631
Fax: 419/337-1471
JLM Wholesale, Inc.
3095 Mullins Court
Oxford, MI 48371
Phone: 800/522-2940
Fax: 800/782-1160
www.jlmwholesale.com
sales@jlmwholesale.com
KEAR Fabrication Inc.
11 Creditstone Rd., Unit 7
Concord, ON L4K 2P1 Canada
Phone: 905/760-0841
Fax: 905/760-0842
DOOR HARDWARE AND
RELATED PRODUCTS
INSULATING GLASS AND
RELATED PRODUCTS
Boyle & Chase, Inc.
72 Sharp Street
Hingham, MA 02043
Phone: 800/325-2530
Fax: 800/205-3500
www.boyleandchase.com
sales@boyleandchase.com
Oldcastle Glass®
Over 68 manufacturing
locations throughout
North America
Phone: 866/653-2278
www.oldcastleglass.com
AGC InterEdge Technologies
85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 110B
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 877/376-3343
Fax: 415/289-0326
www.firesafe-glass.com
SAFTI FIRST™ Fire
Rated Glazing Solutions
325 Newhall Street
San Francisco, CA 94124-1432
Phone: 888/653-3333
Fax: 415/824-5900
www.safti.com
info@safti.com
VETROTECH Saint-Gobain
2108 B Street NW, Suite 110
Auburn, WA 98001
Phone: 888/803-9533
Fax: 253/333-5166
www.vetrotechusa.com
General Door Hardware
Akron Hardware
1100 Killian Road
Akron, OH 44312
Phone: 800/321-9602
Fax: 800/328-6070
C.R. Laurence Co. Inc.
2503 E Vernon Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90058
Phone: 800/421-6144
Fax: 800/262-3299
www.crlaurance.com
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JLM Wholesale, Inc.
3095 Mullins Court
Oxford, MI 48371
Phone: 800/522-2940
Fax: 800/782-1160
www.jlmwholesale.com
sales@jlmwholesale.com
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
Virginia Glass Products Corp.
P.O. Box 5431
Martinsville, VA 24115
Phone: 800/368-3011
Fax: 276/956-3020
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
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Airspacers
Laminating Machine
Alumet Mfg., Inc.
3803 136th St. NE
Marysville, WA 98271
Phone: 360/653-6666 or
800/343-8360
Fax: 360/653-9884
Taricco Corporation
1500 W. 16th Street
Long Beach, CA 90813
Phone: 562/437-5433
Fax: 562/901-3932
www.taricco.com
spence@taricco.com
Helima Helvetion Intl.
PO Box 1348
Duncan, SC 29334-1348
Phone: 800/346-6628
Fax: 864/439-6065
www.helima.de
kmadey@helimasc.com
Muntin Bars
Alumet Mfg., Inc.
3803 136th St. NE
Marysville, WA 98271
Phone: 360/653-6666 or
800/343-8360
Fax: 360/653-9884
Spacers
Edgetech I.G. Inc.
800 Cochran Ave.
Cambridge, OH 43725
Phone: 740/439-2338
Fax: 740/439-0127
www.edgetechig.com
INSULATING GLASS
MACHINERY/EQUIPMENT
Production Lines
Edgetech I.G. Inc.
800 Cochran Ave.
Cambridge, OH 43725
Phone: 740/439-2338
Fax: 740/439-0127
www.edgetechig.com
MACHINERY/EQUIPMENT
IGE Solutions Inc.
2875 Jupiter Park Dr. Ste. 100
Jupiter, Florida 33458
Phone: 561/741-7300
Fax: 561/741-3071
www.igesolutions.com
Drill Bite
Lapcraft Inc.
195 West Olentangy St.
Powell, OH 44065-8720
Phone: 800/432-4748
Fax: 614/764-1860
www.Lapcraft.com
CustService@Lapcraft.com
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MIRROR AND MIRROR
RELATED PRODUCTS
Palmer Mirro-Mastics
146 St. Matthews Avenue
PO Box 7155
Louisville, KY 40257-0155
Phone: 502/893-3668 or
800/431-6151
Fax: 502/895-9253
www.mirro-mastic.com
To place your listing(s) in the Supplier’s Guide,
please contact Janeen Mulligan at
540/720-5584, Ext. 112 or e-mail
jmulligan@glass.com
Spancraft Ltd.
920 Railroad Ave.
Woodmere, NY 11598
Phone: 516/295-0055
Fax: 516/569-3333
www.spancraft.com
Jordan@Spancraft.com
Pittco Architectural Metals, Inc.
1530 Landmeier Rd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone: 800/992-7488
Fax: 847/593-9946
info@pittcometals.com
www.pittcometals.com
SERVICES
Shop Drawings
Virginia Glass Products Corp.
P.O. Box 5431
Martinsville, VA 24115
Phone: 800/368-3011
Fax: 276/956-3020
LTS Drafting
& Engineering, LLC
6855 South Savana St., Suite 580
Centennial, CO 80112
Phone: 303/858-9858
Fax: 303/858-8373
www.ltsdrafting.com
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
SKYLIGHTS & OVERHEAD
GLAZING SYSTEMS
Acid Etched Mirror
Bear Glass
399 20th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Phone: 718/832-3604
Fax: 718/832-0786
www.bearglass.com
Walker Glass Co. Ltd.
9551 Ray Lawson
Montreal, QC H7X 3K7 Canada
Phone: 888/320-3030
Fax: 514/351-3010
www.walkerglass.com
sales@walkerglass.com
Antique Mirror
Bear Glass
399 20th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Phone: 718/832-3604
Fax: 718/832-0786
www.bearglass.com
Oldcastle Glass® Naturalite®
Over 68 manufacturing
locations throughout
North America
Phone: 866/653-2278
www.oldcastleglass.com
Vitro America
965 Ridge Lake Blvd., Suite 300
Memphis, TN 38120
Phone: 800/238-6057
www.vitroamerica.com
sales@vitroamerica.com
TOOLS AND SUPPLIES
Cleaning Towels
Jacone Distributors
5717 Samstone Ct.
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Phone: 513/745-0244
Fax: 513/745-9581
marji@fuse.net
Glass Restoration
GlasWeld Systems
29578 Empire Blvd.
Bend, OR 97701
Phone: 541/388-1156
Fax: 541/388-1157
www.glasweld.com
Skylights
O’Keeffe’s Inc.
325 Newhall Street
San Francisco, CA 94124
Phone: 415/822-4222
Fax: 415/822-5222
www.okeeffes.com
WINDOW & DOOR
REPLACEMENT
HARDWARE
Strybuc Industries
2006 Elmwood Ave.
Sharon Hills, PA 19078
Phone: 800/352-0800
Fax: 610/534-3202
www.strybuc.com
STOREFRONT/
ENTRANCES
Oldcastle Glass® Vistawall®
Over 68 manufacturing
locations throughout
North America
Phone: 866/653-2278
www.oldcastleglass.com
WINDOW FILM
Architectural Film
Johnson Window Films
20655 Annalee Ave.
Carson, CA 90746
Phone: 310/631-6672
Fax: 310/631-6628
www.johnsonwindowfilms.com
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Glass Expo Midwest™
March 16-17, 2010
Expanded, Enhanced and
Moving to the Spring!
Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel
& Convention Center
Chicago (Schaumburg), IL
Join the
architectural
glass and
fenestration
industries for this
newly expanded
event.
Education
Exhibition
Networking
Auto Film
Johnson Window Films
20655 Annalee Ave.
Carson, CA 90746
Phone: 310/631-6672
Fax: 310/631-6628
www.johnsonwindowfilms.com
Commercial Tint
Johnson Window Films
20655 Annalee Ave.
Carson, CA 90746
Phone: 310/631-6672
Fax: 310/631-6628
www.johnsonwindowfilms.com
Security Film
Johnson Window Films
20655 Annalee Ave.
Carson, CA 90746
Phone: 310/631-6672
Fax: 310/631-6628
www.johnsonwindowfilms.com
WINDOW HARDWARE
Stiffeners
Alumet Mfg., Inc.
3803 136th St. NE
Marysville, WA 98271
Phone: 360/653-6666 or
800/343-8360
Fax: 360/653-9884
WINDOWS
Blast Resistant
United States
Bullet Proofing, Inc.
16201 Branch Court
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Phone: 301/218-7920
Fax: 301/218-7925
www.usbulletproofing.com
info@usbulletproofing.com
Fire-Rated
SAFTI FIRST™ Fire
Rated Glazing Solutions
325 Newhall Street
San Francisco, CA 94124-1432
Phone: 888/653-3333
Fax: 415/824-5900
www.safti.com
info@safti.com
General Tools & Supplies
www.glassexpomidwest.com or call 540/720-5584.
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449 Coloma Street
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 800/601-4500
Fax: 415/289-5789 ■
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Used Equipment
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USED MACHINERY
BOUGHT & SOLD
www.usglassmachinery.com
Ph: 724/239-6000
Senior Project Estimator
& Project Manager
Schaitti 11 Spindle Polishing
and Mitering Machine
Contract Glaziers, a leading curtain
wall manufacturer and installer, is
seeking an experienced project estimator and a project manager. Candidates should have a minimum 5 years
experience with good computer
skills. Salary commensurate with experience. Relocation expenses considered. E-mail resumes or inquiries
to info@contractglaziers.com visit
www.contractglaziers.com
About 12 yrs old, in very good condition.
Cerium finish on the flat edge and front
arris. Will work glass from 1/8" to 1 1/4"
in thickness. $15,500. For more info. or
pictures e-mail eric@dundyglass.com
Glass & Metal Project
Managers
New and Used Equipment
One of Chicagoland’s premier contract
glazing organizations has immediate
openings for two project managers. The
one opening is for an individual with
experience in managing large glass and
metal projects including mid-rise curtain-wall and window work. The other
opening is for an individual to coordinate and manage storefronts and interior glass projects. The company’s
history and reputation makes this a
“career opportunity” for the right individuals. The company offers an excellent starting salary and benefit
package. For consideration, a complete
resume including salary history should
be sent to: USGlass, Drawer 3900, PO
Box 569, Garrisonville, VA 22463 or
e-mail jmulligan@glass.com. Be sure to
reference Drawer 3900.
Industry
Services
Bieber Consulting Group, LLC
Is a group of retired Glass Industry
Executives with the ability to solve
your problems, grow your business
and add to your revenue stream. With
over 40 years of expertise managing
sales and profits, we know cost reduction, sales & marketing, finance, glass
fabrication, safety, purchasing, labor
relations and more. To explore how we
can be of benefit to you, call Paul
Bieber at 603/242-3521 or e-mail
paulbaseball@msn.com.
Bovone Beveling Machine
10 spindle Minimax III. Runs perfect.
Can see running. ($19,900) Interested
parties, please call 708/307-8158 for
more information.
NEW 4 spindles flat edger $17,500 US
NEW 6 spindles flat edger $23,500 US
60”-80” Vertical washers
60”-80”-96” Horizontal washers
Intermac Master 33 - 4 years old
Intermac Master 43 - 4 years old
NEW EDGERS. NEW BEVELERS.
50% OFF REGULAR PRICE
Contact: Steve Brown
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Products for Sale
Curved China Cabinet Glass
Standard curves fit most cabinets - one
day service. Most sizes $90, $95, $98 and
each piece is delivered. Call 512/237-3600,
Peco Glass Bending, PO Box 777,
Smithville, TX 78957.
RCS Enterprises
Shop drawings - entrances & storefronts,
curtainwalls, wall panels. Short lead
times.
www.rcsshopdrawings.com.
Phone: 269/202-4010; Fax: 269/4686957, info@rcsshopdrawings.com
Businesses for Sale
Owner Retiring After 9 Yrs.
110 year old well-established commercial mirror & glass fabrication/installation. Annual sales $2M with room for
growth. Located in Brooklyn, NY. Servicing NYC. 6500 sq. ft. building, mach.,
veh., accounts. $2 mil for bus., $2.5 mil
for building. Call 516/680-5619.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Established 35 years. Custom mirror,
shower doors and glass work. Anxious
to retire. Respond to PO Box 450152,
3225 N. Haitus Rd., Sunrise, FL 33345,
or e-mail jmulligan@glass.com, Reference Drawer 4000.
Classifieds go online every day!
Full Line Glass Shop
To place a classified listing, please call Janeen Mulligan at
540/720-5584 Ext. 112 or e-mail jmulligan@glass.com.
Listings start at $119 per column inch.To view listings, visit:
23 years well est. business in Central
Florida. 5800 sq. ft. bldg, equipment, inventory and vehicles included. Owner
Retiring. Serious inquires only. $600K Email glassbusiness4sale@yahoo.com
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Phone
Fax
Web Address
51 Access Hardware Supply
800/348-2263
800/435-8233
www.accesshardware.com
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AGC Flat Glass North America
800/251-0441
404/446-4221
www.ti-ac23.com
82 Arch Aluminum & Glass Co. Inc.
866/629-2724
586/725-4627
www.archaluminum.net
48 Azon Systems, Inc.
800/788-5942
269/373-9295
www.azonintl.com
37 Bavelloni - Glaston North America (USA) Inc. 336/299-8300
336/299-8388
www.glaston.net
3
Bohle America Inc.
866/939-0053
704/887-3456
www.bohle-america.com
41 Bromer Inc.
450/477-6682
450/477-9679
www.bromerinc.com
31 C.R. Laurence Co. Inc.
800/421-6144
800/587-7501
www.crlaurence.com
67 California Glass Bending
800/223-6594
310/549-5398
www.calglassbending.com
25 Cardinal Industries
952/935-1722
952/935-5538
www.cardinalcorp.com
35 Commonwealth Laminating & Coatings Inc. 888/321-5111
276/632-0173
www.suntekfilms.com
46 Deslauriers
800/743-4106
877/743-4106
www.deslinc.com
42 Dlubak Corporation
800/336-0562
724/459-0866
www.dlubakglass.com
32 DORMA Architectural Hardware
800/523-8483
800/274-9724
www.dorma-usa.com
40 EPCO Group
866/313-3726
626/961-3525
www.epcocorp.com
50 Ervin Sales Group
916/933-8367
916/933-8398
www.ervinsales.com
13 For.EL Spa
336/768-5504
336/768-7549
www.forelspa.com
43 Fraco USA Inc.
450/658-0094
450/658-8905
www.fraco.com
38,44,78 Glass Association of North America
785/271-0208
785/271-0166
www.glasswebsite.com
58 GlassPex India
312/781-5180
312/781-5188
www.glasspex.com
12 Glasswerks L.A. Inc.
888/789-7810
888/789-7820
www.glasswerks.com
29 Glaston Finland/Tamglass Brand
358 10 500 6561 358 10 500 6109
www.glaston.net
81 GlasWeld Systems
800/321-2597
541/388-1157
www.glasweld.com
59 Glaziers Center
866/698-4430
607/698-4434
www.glazierscenter.com
57 Grove Products Inc.
800/724-7683
978/840-4130
www.groveproductsinc.com
34 JLM Wholesale
800/522-2940
248/628-6733
www.jlmwholesale.com
71 Jordon Glass
800/833-2159
305/482-0119
www.jordonglass.com
68 Julius Blum & Co., Inc.
800/526-6293
201/438-6003
www.juliusblum.com
23 Kawneer Co., Inc.
770/449-5555
770/734-1560
www.kawneer.com
70 Liberty Glass & Metal Industries
800/843-2031
860/923-9662 www.libertywindowsystems.com
C2 Mayflower Sales
800/221-2052
718/789-8346
www.mfsales.com
19 Midwest Wholesale Hardware
800/821-8527
800/621-5681
www.midwestwholesale.com
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MyGlassTruck.com
800/254-3643
856/863-6704
www.myglasstruck.com
33 Painters & Allied Trades, LMCI
888/934-6474
202/637-0796
www.lmcionline.org
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PPG Industries Inc.
888/774-4332
412/826-2299
www.ppgideascapes.com
45 Pilkington
800/221-0444
419/247-4517
www.pilkington.com
52 Precision Glass Bending
800/543-8796
800/543-8798
www.e-bentglass.com
71 Pulp Studio
310/815-4999
310/815-4990
www.switchlite.com
47 Quattrolifts
800/983-5841 61 3 9372 8105
www.quattrolifts.com
17 Q-Railing USA
714/259-1372
714/259-1720
www.q-railingusa.com
39 SAFTIFirst Fire Rated Glazing Solutions™ 888/653-3333
415/822-5222
www.safti.com
15 Sapa Fabricated Products
800/643-1514
866/833-5978 www.sapafabricatedproducts.com
69 Soft Tech America
954/568-3198
954/563-6116
www.softtechnz.com
53 Sommer & Maca
866/583-1377
866/584-9722
www.somaca.com
36 Taco Metal
800/743-3803
305/770-2386
www.tacorailing.com
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Technoform
330/487-6600
330/487-6682
www.technoform.us
12 Trent, Inc.
800/544-8736
215/482-9389
www.trentheat.com
63 Unruh Fab Inc.
888/772-8400
316/772-5852
www.unruhfab.com
24 US Horizon
877/728-3874
888/440-9567
www.ushorizon.com
11 Vetrotech
888/803-9533
253/333-5166
www.vetrotechusa.com
49 Viracon
800/533-2080
507/444-3021
www.viracon.com
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Vitro America
800/238-6057
501/884-5338
www.vitroamerica.com
70 Zircon Corp.
800/343-0964
901/850-0563
www.zirconcorp.com
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Go For It, Howie!
by Lyle R. Hill
ll ten of them were from the
neighborhood and each one
was special. They were my
group of seven- and eight-year olds
and my job was to mold them into a
basketball team.
The primary idea was to have fun while
learning the fundamentals of the game.
The importance of winning was to be
downplayed, while teamwork and good
sportsmanship were emphasized. As
could be expected, the kids handled these
concepts better than most of the adults.
It was a great group of kids ... bright,
eager to learn, well disciplined and
very coachable. All except one. All except Howie.
Howie’s mother had passed away just
a year earlier and the loss had taken its
toll on the little guy. He had become
subdued, shy, almost backward. His father had signed him up for basketball
hoping that it would help
Howie make friends
while building up his
self-esteem and
confidence.
But it wasn’t working.
You
see,
every time
Howie got
the ball,
he froze.
He
just
s t o o d
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and
players
alike would exhort him to do
something with the ball
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it Howie” they would yell, but to no
avail. Ultimately, one of his teammates would grab the ball out of his
hands and continue the play.
One night after practice, I drove
Howie home so we could talk one-onone. We discussed how well the team
was doing and he told me he enjoyed
being a part of it all. Finally, it was time
to get to the heart of the matter.
“Why do you think you have a hard
time passing the ball when it comes to
you?” I asked.
“Because I’m afraid I’ll pass it to the
wrong person,” he answered.
“And why don’t you ever shoot the
ball?” I continued.
“Because I might miss,” he said, “and
I don’t want everybody to be mad at me
because I made a mistake. I don’t want
to look dumb.”
As we rode in the car that night, I
asked Howie who he thought was the
best player on the team. He quickly
selected Chris as our top player and
added that he wished he could be like
Chris.
“Does Chris make every shot he attempts?”
“Most of them,” Howie responded.
“Have you ever seen Chris make a bad
pass or any other mistake?” I continued.
“Sometimes,” he answered.
“But you don’t remember his mistakes, do you? You remember the baskets he made.”
We rode the rest of the way in
silence, with Howie pondering
my point and me congratulating
myself on reaching him. Now I
thought, things would be
different.
And they were. He did finally
start shooting and passing ...
and making mistakes. I would like to
tell you that he became a great star,
but I can’t. He was a terrible basketball player and never showed much
improvement.
The business world has a lot of
Howies in it—people who are so
afraid of making the wrong decision
that they make no decision at all. They
don’t play to win, but to avoid losing
or looking bad.
“The better a person is, the more
mistakes they will make, for the more
new things they will try,” says management consultant Peter Drucker. “I
would never promote a person into a
top level job who was not making
mistakes ... otherwise they are sure to
be mediocre.”
No one enjoys making a mistake but
failure is usually the price of improvement. And quite often, the one thing
that keeps many of us from success is
that fear of failure.
After nearly 15 years, I bumped into
Howie and to my surprise, he had become a very successful architect. “Mr.
Howie, your highness, sir, what led you
to become an architect?” I asked. After a
23-minute pause, Howie answered.
“Well, coach, you really taught me
well. I finally found a game I’m good at.
I never have to make any decisions,
nothing is ever my fault, and best of all,
there are no referees.” ■
L y l e R . H i l l is president
of MTH Industries of Chicago.
Mr. Hill’s opinions are solely
his own and not necessarily
those of this magazine.
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NSA Announces Winners of the
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he National Sunroom Association (NSA) has announced the
winners and finalists of the 2008
NSA Design Awards. The seventh annual Design Awards, held in Las Vegas,
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Roof Sunrooms $35,000-$50,000.
This sunroom from Four Seasons Solar
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home won in the category of Glazed
Roof Sunrooms over $50,000.
Patio Enclosures Inc. created this
sunroom, which won in the category
of Existing or Wood Roof Sunrooms
$35,000-$50,000.
entries were submitted for the competition and were judged on the basis of
aesthetic and interior appeal, functionality and how well the room enhanced
its surroundings. All sunroom designs
were judged by four different cost levels and three different roofing types.
The “green” category award was added
this year as special recognition for the
most energy-efficient sunroom.
Winners included:
• Existing or Wood Roof Sunrooms,
Under $20,000 –
Patio Enclosures Inc.;
• Existing or Wood Roof Sunrooms,
$20,000 to $35,000 –
Patio Enclosures Inc.;
• Existing or Wood Roof Sunrooms,
$35,000 to $50,000 –
Patio Enclosures Inc.;
• Existing or Wood Roof Sunrooms,
Over $50,000 –
Four Seasons Sunrooms;
• Laminated Roof Panel Sunrooms,
Under $20,000 –
C-Thru Industries;
• Laminated Roof Panel Sunrooms,
$20,000 to $35,000 –
Patio Enclosures Inc.;
• Laminated Roof Panel Sunrooms,
$35,000 to $50,000 –
Joyce Manufacturing Co.;
• Laminated Roof Panel Sunrooms,
Over $50,000 –
Joyce Manufacturing Co.;
• Glazed Roof Sunrooms, Under
$20,000 –
SunPorch Structures Inc.;
• Glazed Roof Sunrooms, $20,000 to
$35,000 –
Patio Enclosures Inc.;
• Glazed Roof Sunrooms, $35,000 to
$50,000 –
Four Seasons Sunrooms;
• Glazed Roof Sunrooms, Over
$50,000 –
Four Seasons Solar Products; and
• “Green” category –
Four Seasons Solar Products.
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Harmon Inc.’s Minneapolis Glass
Services team became one of the
first service providers and specialty
contractors to endorse the Building
Owners and Managers Association
International’s 7-Point Challenge.
The challenge urges teams to reduce commercial buildings’ energy
consumption by 30 percent in the
next three years. ❙❙➤ www.harmoninc.com … Viracon, based in Owatonna, Minn., earned the American
Subcontractors Association (ASA) Excellence in Ethics Certificate for
2009. The award was presented to
Viracon and five other companies by
ASA president Bill Olmo in Nashville,
Tenn., during the association’s annual meeting on March 6. ❙❙➤
www.viracon.com … JE Berkowitz
LP in Pedricktown, N.J., announced
that 2009 marked its tenth consecutive year of compliance as an International
Organization
for
Standardization (ISO) certified company. The most recent surveillance
audit achieved a perfect score. ❙❙➤
www.jeberkowitz.com … Solon,
Ohio-based Truseal Technologies
Inc. is celebrating its tenth year as
an ENERGY STAR partner.
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Edgetech I.G. and LMI Custom Mixing hosted approximately 50 pre-teens
from Meadowbrook Middle School in Cambridge, Ohio, in May to help
prepare the students for future career choices. Pictured here, Tom
Matthews, continuous improvement/safety representative for Edgetech, led
the students through Edgetech’s production process.
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AAMA Announces
2009 Award Winners
The American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) announced the winners of its 72nd
Annual Conference Awards at a banquet held in Schaumburg, Ill., earlier
this year.
Awards include the following:
• 2008 Outstanding Member Award –
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David Moyer, vice president of Architectural Testing Inc, based in York, Pa.;
2008 Architectural Products Group
Distinguished Service Award – Steve
Fronek, vice president of technical
services for Wausau Window and
Wall Systems, Wausau, Wis.;
2008 Residential Products Group
Distinguished Service Award – Tracy
Rogers, technical director for Edgetech IG, Cambridge, Ohio;
2008 Marketing Distinguished Service
Award – Joe Hums, regional sales
manager for Mikron, Winnebago, Ill.;
and
2008 Chairman’s Award – Acralight International, based in Santa Ana, Calif.
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Frank Lowe Rubber &
Gasket Recognized as
Manufacturer of the Year
Frank Lowe Rubber & Gasket Co.
Inc., a Shirley, N.Y.-based company, was
recognized by the New York State Small
Business Development Center as an
outstanding small business and named
the 2009 Manufacturer of the Year.
Ira M. Warren, president and chief
executive officer of Frank Lowe Rubber
& Gasket Co., accepted the award at the
Hudson Valley Resort in neighboring
Kernhonkson, N.Y. Warren, who was
recognized for his drive and dedication
to the company, took over Frank Lowe
Rubber & Gasket in 1975.
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he layman may view glass as a
delicate object easily subject to
breakage, but those in the know
are well aware of the strength that this
incredibly versatile material holds. Employees of Dlubak Corp. in Blairsville, Pa.,
may know better than most just what
kind of impact and abuse glass can take.
Although the company was founded
in 1947 as Dlubak Studios to produce
stained glass, pure aesthetics are no
longer the focus (in fact, the stained glass
division was phased out in 1982). While
the company still does have occasion to
incorporate silkscreened patterns, rollercoated designs and decorative laminates
into architectural glass projects, today’s
focus comes down to protection.
“We do what I call ‘disaster glass’
products,” says president Frank Dlubak.
Dlubak explains that this focus “really
started about ten years ago in Florida
with the hurricane [market].” Now you
can just about name a disaster and the
fabricator is producing a glass product
that can withstand it: hurricane-, tornado-, earthquake-, bomb- and bulletresistant glass all come pouring off of
the three laminated lines and out of the
five autoclaves at the company’s
Blairsville, Pa., headquarters.
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by Megan Headley
After nearly 50 year in the glass
industry, Dlubak Corp. president Frank
Dlubak continues to lead the company
in producing innovative new products.
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The company is also doing some
work on another new age protective
glass product, notes Mark Kearns, vice
president of sales. The company showcases its radio frequency (RF) shielding, or anti-eavesdropping product, at
the AIA Conference (see the November
2007 USGlass, page 34, for more on RF
shielding).
In addition to these safety and security capabilities, the company has eight
bending furnaces, four water jets, a
high-speed tempering line and a highspeed insulating line. It is renowned for
its innovation in curved glass, as well as
for aluminum bending.
“We’re starting to focus more on our
laminated products,” says Kearns of
that reputation for complex bending.
“These products are still going to be
there, but we’re going to focus more on
the security—and there’s a lot more
stuff coming.”
A walk through the 125,000-squarefoot facility in Blairsville will show
stacks of glass up to 9 ½ inches thick,
some in custom shapes and all providing the highest visibility.
“Laminating glass is relatively
simple,” says Damon Dlubak, vice
president of operations,“[if] it’s just
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two pieces of glass. But as that thickness increases and when you’re also
laminating with polycarbonate to glass,
it becomes a lot more challenging.”
Luckily, the company seems to thrive
on challenges and stepping first into
new arenas.
“You can never let your guard down,
when you’re producing the parts. The
first part has to have as much attention
given to it as the 50th part or the 1,000th
part,” says David Bazzano, chief executive officer. “They’re not just two pieces
of glass with a piece of PVB between
them, they’re very delicate pieces—and
the tiniest misstep can be cause for that
piece to be thrown in the dumpster.”
With a strong team behind them, and
some unique machinery in place, the
company is able to
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just about any requirement. That’s not as
easy as it sounds when it comes to working with these massive laminated lites—
as shapes alone can throw a curve.
“[Customers] come up with unusual
shapes,” says Frank Dlubak,“which may
take weeks to figure out how to do.” He
adds, “Picture things going in a …
trapezoid shape, which are laminated
and you have to go through all of the
technology of lamination and make
sure nothing slides, and how to hold it
together and maintaining optics and all
of that. So a shape is a big issue …”
“For example, military vehicle windshields are a radius cut,” explains
Damon Dlubak, adding, “it’s difficult to
cut that way.”
And military vehicles are just one of
the end uses for this company’s protective glaz-
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While solar modules (and the glass that protects them) are much the rage
today, the panels are still a number of years away from reaching an efficiency
that will allow them to significantly grow their market share. And while solar energy may someday be the primary way of generating light and heat, Frank
Dlubak, president of Dlubak Corp. and the new company Green Heat, has another solution in mind for right now.
“You hear everybody saying you want to get solar energy because that’s going
to reduce electricity [usage],” Dlubak says. But Green Heat has begun fabrication of a product intended to heat buildings for a minimal amount of money.
With heated glass, Dlubak says, “It’s going to help you right now … you plug it
in and you have instant heat.”
As he explains, “Heated glass is nothing new. It works, it’s proven, it’s just the
fact that we are making what we’re calling a warm glass system.”
Dlubak Corp. has been producing heated glass for its glass showcase doors
for more than 30 years; the heated glass keeps the doors on grocery cases
from frosting once opened. Dlubak says that what sets his latest company apart
from others that manufacture heated glass is the way in which it is applying the
product to an end use.
“We’re making a low budget unit that’s going to be held together with magnets,” he says. “It’s retrofit, you put it on the inside of your house, you … pop it
in the wall and you plug it in. It’s a no-brainer.”
Dlubak says that using this radiant heating system can greatly reduce energy costs for home or building owners in a variety of applications.
“Let’s say your kitchen is always cold. So what you do is you go turn the heat
up to warm your kitchen up. What you’ve done is you’ve warmed the whole
house up so now to [improve] your creature comfort in that room you’re already
spending more money,” he says. “If you had in that kitchen an electric window,
when you turn it on it would be the price of one or two light bulbs to heat that
window. So now what you’re doing is you’re using energy but you’re reducing
energy because you’re not turning the gas up and heating the whole house.”
The cost of heating the glass would be about the same as burning two light
bulbs, he says.
“It’s 40 percent cheaper to run this heated glass in your home than the normal energy costs,” Dlubak says. “What’s important about that is that the utility companies are mandated by the government to reduce energy in some way.
They could give you a break but they aren’t going to do that. But if they can get
you as a homeowner to reduce your energy intake by having heated windows,
well they’re going to say ‘Hey, that’s great.’”
The latest endeavor has been in the works for approximately 2 ½ years,
Dlubak says. Although independent of Dlubak Corp., Dlubak says that Green
Heat likely will be selling its products to the security glazing-focused sister company to incorporate heated glass products within its product lines as well.
“A big thing in the military is soldier comfort,” he explains. “Right now if
they’re in Afghanistan, it’s cold, and in their vehicles they really don’t get a lot
of heat. Well, we’re going to have the windows heat up and warm them. Not only
take the frost off the glass but warm the soldiers.”
Dlubak says that the company is up and running and the industry can expect to see a product on the marketplace soon. “It’s set up where we can actually make 500 insulating heated windows a day,” he says.
ing products. A great deal of Dlubak’s
glass is the direct result of the company’s relatively recent focus, within the
last six years, on providing protective
glass for military clients.
Military Might
“We deal with the all types of federal
government applications,” Frank
Dlubak says. The company also focuses
on providing thick laminated lites for
up-armoring military vehicles overseas
and it also deals with the Army’s Picatinny Research Facility in New Jersey.
“They listen to the boys in Iraq …
they call us up and say ‘hey we’ve got a
problem, we need a certain type of
glass,’” Frank Dlubak explains.
Dlubak Corp. also provides ballistic or
bomb glass for federal buildings. Most of
its work comes through contractors with
connections in the various branches and
necessary security clearances.
“We actually started to make glass for
the military in 2003,” Bazzano recalls.
“We were dealing with a contractor that
called us and placed an order. At that
time he was asking us for 100 parts a
week and … 100 parts a week was like,
we’re never going to make it. After a couple of months of doing that and figuring
a way out to make these parts for them,
this customer calls me and says,‘Look, I
have an order for 1,800 parts.’ And I said,
‘Well, that’s great, that’s wonderful.’ And
he said, ‘I need them next Friday.’”
With a week and a half in which to produce more than ten times more parts than
was the norm, the outcome should have
seemed doubtful.
Bazzano continues, “I got our supervisors together and I said, ‘we have an
opportunity. We have a challenge. Can
we do this? We can get this 1,800-piece
order. If we can’t we’re going to have to
turn him away.’
“Everyone said no, we couldn’t do it,
thumbs down. Well, we stepped out on a
limb and said we’re doing it anyway.”
A week and a half and some new
“techniques and processes” later,“we got
the 1,800 done—and now it’s not a
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problem to do that on any given day.
Now 1,800 pieces is a small order for us.”
In one month, Bazzano says, the
company ships more than 25,000 pieces
of glass for its military clients.
Meeting a challenge like this would
cement a relationship with an architectural client and it turns out that a government contractor is no different.
“The government looks at suppliers
and they give them a degrees of value,
like 1-10. So far I think we’ve been at the
10 [end]—we’re always ahead of the
order,” says Frank Dlubak.
“Not just on time, but ahead,” points
out project manager Sunghoon Kim.
“It’s very rare to find that.”
In addition, Bazzano explains, when
working for these large government
contracts, “You have to be standing by
ready to produce on a moment’s notice. There will be potential for contracts that you could be waiting on for
a matter of weeks or months—but
whenever they’re released you are
shipping product within two days.”
Although the plant is running
around the clock, things can move
from 0 to 60 in a snap, since there’s no
well of “custom inventory” from which
to draw once that contract comes
through. There’s just those stock lowiron and float glass lites—from PPG,
primarily, as well as Pilkington—as
well as polycarbonate from Sheffield
and Sabic to laminate into the latest
project.
“They are specialty products and
something could change, so we have to
jump in and get ready to work whenever the works hits us,” Bazzano says.
While the work has been steady,
Frank Dlubak is well aware that this
focus may change during the next four
years of a new administration.
“You listen to the news and we listen
to some of our customers that there’s a
reduction in military applications,” he
says. “But who knows …”
For a company that has produced
products ranging from stained glass to
showcase glass, there’s nothing intimi-
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“We’re trying to see how can we diversify with our technology,” Frank
Dlubak acknowledges.
And while the custom machinery in
the Dlubak facilities isn’t something
you’re likely to test out unless you’re on
the payroll, it’s an example of how the
company is able to branch out due to
constant, across-the-board innovation.
Machinery
M a n u fa c t u r i n g
To produce a unique product, you need
unique equipment. Frank Dlubak has
that locked up by designing much of the
machinery the company uses through his
Dlubak Technologies company.
“It comes out of necessity,” says Damon
Dlubak.“If we need something to meet a
customer’s needs, we’ll go ahead and take
whatever step is necessary.”
“If [for example] we put a new laminated line in,” Frank Dlubak says, “we
look at what the problems are, talk to
our employees and everybody gives
input on what we should do and how
we should do it. We take the general
consensus and we go and buy machines or we manufacture our own
machines to fit the void.”
The company keeps its proprietary
equipment its own; generally pieces are
created to assist in the material han-
dling aspect
of the fabrication process.
When it comes to those standard
pieces of equipment, Frank Dlubak says
he comes to the table knowing exactly
what he wants, and buying a machine
is simply a matter of finding the manufacturer able to meet his requirements.
“We buy a lot of used machines right
now because of availability. If you look
around at all these companies going out
of business, you can go in and get a machine pretty economically,” he adds.
Ta k i n g C o n t ro l
of Quality
According to Bazzano, one of the big
differences Dlubak Corp. faces in dealing
with military clients versus its architectural glass customers is that the “quality
is a lot more stringent.” That demand for
quality went up a notch recently.
“We had a mandate from one of our
contractors on the U.S. Army … that we
follow through with ISO compliance,”
Kim explains.
“They’re looking for more formal
quality control requirements,” Bazzano
adds.“One of the government contracts
that we’ve been working on for the last
three years said that beginning in mid2009 they need all of their vendors to
be ISO-compliant. So we decided that
it’s time to go ahead and do that.”
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Employee Safety and Training
One of the side effects of the Blairsville, Pa.-based Dlubak Corp.’s rapid
growth over the past few years, notes project manager Sunghoon Kim, was
an “imbalance” in its hiring practices, by hiring rapidly and looking for quality workers rather than shaping them.
“We recognized that and we implemented a training program,” Kim says.
“We spent about three to six months developing the program. We hired
various consultants and we modeled our training program after the best
training programs of Fortune 500 companies.”
Now new hires spend a week in a classroom environment, and then an
additional 85 days undergoing production training.
“A lot of it’s ‘Glass Working 101,’ in terms of being able to identify regular glass versus glass with coatings on it or different kinds of laminate,”
elaborates Damon Dlubak, vice president of operations. “Some of it’s 101
and some of the aspects include safety … and then also in general how
the different departments relate to each other.”
“Ultimately, the goal is that everyone’s got each other’s back,” Kim adds.
“In case one person becomes absent we can pull upon others and say,
‘Hey, you were trained in this, remember that?’”
Once implemented, the training program became a real “eye-opener” for
the company.
“I think the training program was eye-opening for us because a lot of the
employees that had been out there for a year or two years, three years,
even longer, were talking to graduates of the training program who were
just recently hired and out of the classroom—and they were shocked by
how much they didn’t know,” Kim says. “ They were asking …‘When can we
sign up,’ or ‘I didn’t know that we did that in the plant.’”
The numbers have further brought home the importance of a successful training program, Kim adds.
“Over the 14 months that this training program has been in existence,
it’s been a very successful program. Our turnaround rate has decreased by
approximately 45 percent and the retention rate has been a lot better as
well,” he says.
Knowing the ins-and-outs of each step of the production process also
has helped improve the quality of both the workforce and the product.
“It’s quality of the workforce, but it’s also a spoke on the wheel of the
quality of the product,” says Dlubak. “The biggest obstacle on quality is
that you can tell someone what to do but when they understand it, they’re
going to do a better job.”
The company makes sure it recognizes the hard work its employees put
in with rewards ranging from free lunches and pizza parties to the profit
sharing and other company-wide benefits. The company recently received
its own reward of sorts for its work in local hires.
“We were also recognized officially as one of the few employers in the
county who are going to hire 60 new employees in the next three years,”
Kim says. “We were awarded a grant of approximately $270,000 from the
state of Pennsylvania through their customized job training program. We’re
looking to take advantage of that relatively soon, in the next month, since
we’ve already exceeded that number by five more employees in the last
year alone.”
The company has drawn on a variety
of resources to accomplish the task,
spearheaded by Kim.
“We have consultants working with us,
we also have students from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business,”
Bazzano says.
In addition, a government agent visits the facility on a weekly basis to review the products.
“He inspects the glass for the government here before it goes out the
door,” says Frank Dlubak. “It’s good for
us because once he inspects it they take
ownership, and then we have an accepted product right here.”
Beyond the client’s inspections, the
company follows the adage that everyone must do their part when it comes
to quality control.
“Every area, every single step
throughout the plant there’s someone
that’s looking at the glass,” Bazzano
says.“When it’s cut, it’s inspected; when
it’s seamed and washed it’s inspected
again; when it’s laid up, it’s inspected.
The final inspection is in the factory
plant where we have the zebra board set
up and the fluorescent lights … ”
Should customers find some problem
during their tests or once the finished
product is provided, careful records can
show the process—and inspections—
that occurred each step of the way.
“We keep good records of what we
do,” Bazzano says. “We try to maintain
traceability of parts so we can actually
trace back to a specific autoclave load
and see when something was made,
and go back and make sure that all the
right parameters were followed during
the processing of that part.”
Fa m i l y M a t te r s
There’s something else about the employees at Dlubak that clearly stands
out—and that comes with the Dlubak
name itself.
Charles Dlubak founded the company in 1947, and Frank Dlubak
began working in the family business
at the age of 12. Today the family ties
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run throughout various levels of the
company, and the family members say
the benefits far outweigh any challenges that may come in working with
family.
“It’s nice having everybody work together with us,” Bazzano says. Bazzano
shares the Dlubak family ties through
his sister, Ave Bazzano Dlubak, Frank
Dlubak’s wife of 40 years. “It feels
good. Frank’s always there with a
phone call; you can reach him 24
hours a day. The family thing makes it
that much easier.”
Daughter Alyssa Dlubak Bodiford
has handled marketing for the past 10
years, having worked in estimating
and customer service for five years
prior to that. Three years ago Damon
Dlubak joined the company, and two
years ago Kim, who is married to Amy
Dlubak Kim, came onboard.
“They’ve made things so much easier on all of us,” Bazzano says.
“Damon, on the manufacturing
end of it,
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he’s helped out quite a bit coordinating what goes on there and making us
feel a lot more comfortable that our
interests are being represented. And
then Hoon came in on the other side
and helps us out with a lot of the personnel factors. We managed to get a
drug free workplace policy and Hoon
brought that through for us and right
now he is the guy that’s spearheading
ISO for us.”
“But the real future is Cole,” Bazzano
says to laughter from the Dlubaks, smiling at the mention of Bodiford’s infant
son, the first of Frank Dlubak’s grandchildren (the Kims are expecting their
first son in July).
Not that there’s any pressure to join
the family business, Frank Dlubak
says. Still, he talks of his children’s
roles with pride. “I’m very proud of
them,” he says simply.
Part of the ease of having the family
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work together, he explains, is that the
younger generation communicates
with each other regularly. Communication clearly is a key concept for
Frank Dlubak. He says that he frequently “broadcasts” what’s going on
in the business to keep everyone at
the various locations on the same
page. “It’s important because a business is really just an operation of
everybody’s ideas,” he says. “And it’s
nice to have someone say, ‘Hey, I think
that’s a good idea,’ or ‘I think you’re on
the wrong track.’”
Having employees you can trust to
offer such advice is a feat; having
trusted family members whose opinions you value has helped shaped the
company’s success today.
“Dave’s relationship with Dad here
over the last 30 years—they worked
side-by-side as the business was being
established and you just can’t take away
this kind of history and tradition. That
bond is extremely strong,” Kim says. He
adds, “I see that pervasive throughout
everybody here. The average length of
employment for the salaried employees
is around 17 years. And then out there
in the plant … it’s around 7 years. So
you’re looking at a tremendously loyal
family base—not just this immediate
family but all of us.”
“We even have 30+ year employees,”
Bazzano adds.
Again, quite a feat, although as Frank
Dlubak boasts he’s just three years shy
of marking his 50th anniversary in the
glass industry.
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I Learned at the Glass Fabrication
and Glazing Educational Conference
by Megan Headley and Ellen Rogers
A
fresh batch of faces learned the basics of the fabrication and glazing industry during the Glass Association of North
America’s (GANA) annual Glass Fabrication and Glazing Educational Conference, which took place this year April 68 in Cincinnati. The conference is geared toward individuals with five or fewer years in the industry as it provides an
educational foundation in a number of essential areas.
For those of you who didn’t make it yourself, we have a few of the essentials here for you. And if you’re not new to the industry yourself, we’re sure you’re eager to pass on your knowledge about glass to someone who is; be sure to pass along the following tips and information as well.
Oh So Trendy Glass
Ron McCann of Viracon addressed some of the latest
trends to hit the glass industry. When it comes to applying
these trends into practice, McCann noted, “The key is figuring out what the drivers are for your clients.” Knowing what
needs your client is trying to meet can help you as the supplier or installer steer them toward those “trendy” new products that are the most appropriate solution for their project.
McCann said that “much larger sizes” than previously
used are becoming the norm. In conjunction with
that, comes thicker glass and a move to low-iron, McCann pointed out. As lites become larger in area, an
increase in thickness is necessary to prevent bending.
With thicker glass may come a deepening of the green
tint caused by iron content, leading to further requests
for low-iron glass.
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addition to bigger, heavier glass, McCann said glass
specified for multiple applications. For exam2. Inisple,being
you might find on your next job a request for a
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high-performance coating on a glass that also must be
impact-resistant and fabricated into a thermally efficient insulating glass (IG) unit to boot.
McCann also addressed the growing demand for energy-efficient glass. New generations of glass coatings
will further help designers let light in while keeping
heat out. While double silver low-E coatings are popular now, McCann said, he predicts that triple silver
coatings will become more prevalent.
Cutting and Edging Correctly
Chuck Beatty of Edgeworks Inc. discussed automated
glass cutting and edging techniques. Among his tips were
the following:
The less energy you send into the glass while scoring
the cut, the smoother the resulting edge after the
break-out.
Use a sharper wheel angle for thin glass and blunter
angle for thicker glass.
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said people often ask him how long cutting
wheels last. It’s different for different things, he said,
3. Beatty
but he tells people: “These carbide cutting wheels are
not very expensive … compared to the cost of the
glass. If an operator waits until the glass breaks to
change the wheel, he wouldn’t work for me.”
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Glass Tempering Systems for the 21 Century
Chuck Cocagne with Glassrobots Oy talked to his audience
about the glass tempering process, how systems are evolving and how many of these changes are related to architectural glass trends. Cocagne shared the following:
There are three types of tempering furnaces: radiation, convection and conduction. Radiation involves
heating with electromagnetic waves from the furnace heating elements. This once-preferred method
is not used as commonly as in the past since newer
low-E coatings are designed to reflect that heat away
from the glass. Convection heating is where hot air is
blown onto the glass; and conduction involves bringing the glass into direct contact with a hot material,
typically ceramic rollers.
said he believes that a large portion of future
glasses will have high performance coatings and
2. Cocagne
many will be coated on both the top and bottom.
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Passing the Test
Larry Livermore of Architectural Testing Inc. presented information on the successful “Testing of Architectural Glass
and Framing Systems” to ensure a finished project’s success.
Testing a mock-up in a lab or in the field can help to
uncover design issues and installation problems, Livermore said. “They establish a benchmark of performance and installation expectations,” he added.
Before testing, define the area of the mock-up to be
tested, whether it’s a run-of-the-mill portion or the
most complex part of the project, a flat wall or a corner, etc. Each party in the process needs to be involved
in the decision-making process, he said, which needs
to clearly identify responsibility for different wall
types. During the testing is when the contractor
should start to establish a benchmark of quality
they’re looking for in the field.
There also will be a push for processing more ultraclear glass, larger lites and increasingly thinner glass.
“Furnaces of the future will need to be able to accommodate all of these demands,” he said.
Cocagne said we can expect to see tempering systems
include short cycles of convection heating, as the market will be driven by high production volume with low
operational energy consumption; a move toward hollow rollers, which can help minimize conduction heating effects and provide control for convection heating
from the bottom; and “smart” control systems for bed
loading, furnace heat control and quality control.
the test itself, Livermore said, “It would be a
good idea to have everyone involved survey the test
3. During
chamber.” If something isn’t adequate, it’s better to
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point that out before the unit fails the test. In addition, he stressed the importance of remembering to
go back to the mock-up drawing to note changes that
take place once the set-up or testing process has gotten underway.“This is critical,” he said. The owner and
test lab also need to be notified of any deviations from
the original mock-up design. Livermore added,
“Everything we do on the test we’ve got to carry
through on the drawings and in the field—so the last
thing we want to do is a band-aid fix.”
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Know About Mirror Before It Reaches the Wall
Rick Cummings of CKV Products walked an audience of
about 30 glaziers through tips and techniques for accurate
measuring and cutting of mirrors during a mirror installation
demonstration. Benny Walker of Vitro America provided some
additional tips and techniques.
When it comes to fabrication, Walker said, keep your
work area clean, since grit and dirt can hurt the mirror’s front and backing. Wearing gloves and vacuuming the cutting table area were some of the
suggestions he offered. For grinding and polishing operations, he stressed the importance of using clean,
fresh water and an appropriate coolant as a lubricant.
“pH is important. It can mess up your mirror, and it
can mess up your machine,” he noted, adding, “Machine set-up is so important.”
do not use silicone … use mastics,”
2. “Please
Walker said, adding,
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“I’ve seen people send
the mirror back and
say the mirror was bad
when the mirror was
the only good part. It
was the silicone.”
He also reminded the audience not to use ammonia
cleaners that can remove the copper layer if applied
on the mirror’s edge.“Then all you’re left with is silver
and it’s just like the silver in your home: it tarnishes,”
he said. “I cannot stress enough to leave that copper
alone and that means don’t put stuff on it.”
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Considerations for Laminating Low-E Glass
Both low-E glass and laminated glass are used commonly
in residential applications. However, using them in combination actually negates the low-E’s performance qualities.
“This is because the low-E coating is buried inside the laminated lay-up,” explained Jeff Haberer of Cardinal Glass Industries during his presentation. He quickly noted, though,
that combining the two still can be appropriate in certain applications. He shared a number of points about the combination with his audience.
Low-E coatings are designed to reflect far infrared (heat)
energy and they need to have an airspace, as in an insulating glass unit, to perform. When used in a laminated
make-up, the coating reflects and absorbs ultraviolet
and near infrared heat. Most of the visible light passes
through so the glass does offer high visible transmittance, as well as a low solar heat gain coefficient.
1.
considering adhesion, Haberer said that interlayers may bond differently to coatings than to non2. When
coated glass. To make sure that the glass composition
3.
is right, he stressed the importance of testing, including the pummel test, boil test, ball drop and bag drop
tests. Durability issues, such as corrosion and de-lamination, also need to be addressed.“Pyrolytic coatings
are less susceptible to corrosion since they are fired
onto the glass,” Haberer said. “Sputter coatings are
more susceptible since they are silver-based and silver,
which is sensitive to moisture, can tarnish.”
There also can be concerns with the interlayer materials. Some, such as PVB, are hygroscopic, meaning
they tend to wick moisture away. Other materials, such
as an Ionoplast interlayer, are not hygroscopic, so there
is no moisture wicking and less risk of corrosion.
A Day in the Life of a Project Manager
There’s a lot to keep in mind if you want to be successful as
a project manager in a contract glazing business. Andrew
Gum, president of Thomas Glass Co. Inc. in Columbus, Ohio,
provided conference attendees with a few bits of advice to
help them better succeed at project management.
One key tip, Gum suggested, is to learn to manage
your day, which includes prioritizing and making task
lists for the day and/or week that cover the things that
absolutely must be done, things that need to be done
and things that should be done. “Also, allow time in
your day for unscheduled events and be realistic about
what you can get done each day,” Gum said.
Maintaining successful, positive relationships also is
important.“Know your company and its culture,” said
Gum, who advised making sure that you have the
right people working in the right places so that every-
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2.
3.
one is able to work best together. He also talked about
the importance of relationship building with your
staff.“Take time and make an effort to acknowledge a
job well done,” he said.
Holding productive meetings will help ensure all projects are handled smoothly. Gum advised everyone to
make sure they are prepared for their meetings and
that they plan out an agenda in advance. “Begin the
project with a kick-off meeting so that you can create
a project cost budget that everyone can understand,”
he said. He explained that this is an opportunity to
talk about the materials that will be used, labor, subcontractors, etc. A close-out meeting provides a
chance to talk about the products and materials used,
what worked well and what did not.
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Ensuring Quality Laminated Glass
The use of laminated glass in architectural applications,
whether for safety and security purposes or even sound control, has seem much growth in recent years, as has the number of glass fabrication companies offering laminated
products. To help companies understand how to ensure a
quality laminated product, Dan Laporte from Solutia Inc. discussed some of those issues.
Storage and handling PVB is an important aspect of ensuring a quality laminated product. Storing the material
in a way that maintains the packaging integrity will help
keep out moisture and contamination. PVB, LaPorte said,
has sponge-like characteristics and it will suck up water.
It also is an adhesive and will stick to itself if not stored
properly.“So store the PVB in a temperature between 40
to 50 degrees Fahrenheit,” Laporte said.
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cleaning and preparing the glass for lamination also is important. Make sure the glass cutting
2. Cutting,
equipment is in good working conditions so that lites
3.
are cut neat and evenly; change the glass-washing
tank regularly and use a water washing temperature
of between 120 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Dry the
glass thoroughly and uniformly.
A proper clean room environment is critical in assembling glass. “The room has to be ultra-clean,” Laporte stressed. If it’s not, the PVB will pick up
contaminants [that will end up as part of the glass].”
Laporte suggested having double entry doors leading
to the clean room to ensure the factory floor environment is not brought in and using tacky mats to prevent dirt from being not brought in on shoes.
Third-Party Inspection of Glass Fabrication and Installation
“Glass is so important. It’s the face of the building; it’s
where architects really try to express themselves so a [lot has
to go into] selecting the glass,” Israel Berger, president of New
York-based curtainwall consulting firm Israel Berger & Associates, told his audience as he explained some of the ways
third-party inspectors and consultants can provide assistance on projects.
Third-party objectives can include assistance in ensuring code and construction document compliance;
backstopping vagueness in codes and construction
documents; and verifying proper coordination between
glass manufacturers and curtainwall contractors.
might a third-party inspector be brought onto a
project? Sometimes it’s mandated by code and other
2. Why
time it’s requested by the owner or client. In other
3.
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cases it could be requested by the architect/engineer.
Third-party inspectors also can help verify quality
and consistency of the glass products. Inspection
methodologies vary from job to job, although a raw
material inspection is often used for flat glass. “So
often glass is treated like a commodity, but it’s important to verify the quality and consistency,” Berger
said. “Third-party inspectors can help the project
team through the construction phase … and understanding quality control obligations,” he added.
When Insulating Glass Units Fail
Bill Lingnell of Lingnell Consulting Services and technical consultant for the Insulating Glass
Manufacturers Alliance shared tips
from his “Field Investigations with
Insulating Glass Units.”
For starters, he advised attendees
that in conducting their own investigations they make their goal
trying to prove what they believe is
not true, so as to not run the risk of
coming to conclusions based on assumptions.
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the information that will assist in an investigation, Lingnell advised checking for information on glass
2. Among
performance, such as replacement records and evi-
3.
dence of seal failures or breakage; reviewing maintenance schedules; studying plans and specifications; and
checking with the installer and fabricator for additional
background if needed.
Lingnell said that the next step in conducting the investigation should be to ask: “What’s different?” By looking
for factors that could have changed the system in some
way, such as runoff, for example, the investigator can determine what may have led to the failure.
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A Review of the AIA Convention in San Francisco
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by Megan Headley
and Ellen Rogers
eaction to the American Institute of Architects’
(AIA) Annual Convention in San Francisco was
mixed. Initially many glass-related exhibitors
expressed doubt that the aisles would ever fill, as
attendees trickled into the Moscone Center on
April 30. There were definite hot spots on the
trade show floor throughout the three-day event,
and many of those companies that had seen limited traffic were pleased with the focused attention
they received from the attending architects by the
time the show closed on May 2.
There certainly was plenty of glass to see from
the more than 60 glass-related exhibitors. Among
those products that were new to the show floor
were such trendy offerings as decorative and solar
glass. However, many of the products on display
had been introduced at previous conventions,
and several exhibitors confessed to showcasing
“the same old thing.”
Those “same old” offerings may have been a
result of strategies for waiting out the construction downturn, but yet another surprise on the
show floor was the number of businesses sharing
news about growth and recent expansions amidst
this troubled economy.
Business as Usual
While there was some question as to how the
economy would impact the show’s attendance, a
number of exhibitors said that they’ve remained
not only unscathed but strong throughout the
construction downturn.
According to Douglas Mahler, business devel-
opment manager for Sheffield Plastics Inc., “The
stimulus dollars are coming through now,” a fact
that is leading to more government-type projects
that would require use of protective products such
as the company’s high-impact polycarbonate sheet
products.
“This is a great show for us,” Mahler added.
“Probably everyone that has come by has a need
where we can help them.”
Dave Hewitt, director of marketing of EFCO
Corp. noted that the Monett, Mo.-based company
is looking to hire a number of people as blast and
government projects carry the manufacturer
through the construction downturn. “Schools
have been our bellwether,” Hewitt said.
Others also were excited to talk about how
they’ve been able to grow their businesses through
new locations and expansions. Ross Deeter, regional manager for Novum Structures, said the company has grown domestically and internationally.
“We’re taking the economic slowdown in
stride, but we’re still moving forward because we
know the market will pick back up,” Deeter said.
The company recently opened new offices in
Dallas, San Francisco, Florida, Germany,
England, France, Turkey and India.
The company has been busy lately with a variety
of projects and Deeter said that exhibiting helps
them reach out to the architectural community to
provide assistance, regardless of the budget.
“We’re here to support the architects with whatever type of architectural projects they may have,
from the small canopy to a large wall,” he added.
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Tom O’Malley, vice president of sales for
Doralco, noted that the Alsip, Ill.-based company
“started a composite panel business about a year
ago.” He commented that the business helps his
company to meet another need of many of its current customers. The company remains busy with a
number of high-end projects.
Sales manager Jessy Servol revaled that Klein
USA Inc. has a new warehouse facility in
Elizabeth N.J. Although its products are manufactured in Spain, the five-month-old facility was
established to help expand the company’s reach.
Klein showcased its sliding glass door technology at the show, and Servol mentioned that the
company soon will be introducing a “telescoping”
glass door—the panels of the door slide into one
neat stack when open.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Serious Materials has
been much in the news in recent months following several acquisitions (see February 2009
USGlass, page 14), and its representatives showed
at the convention that they’re far from done making a splash. Over the next six months the company is aiming to increase production of commercial
glass and window products until that segment
makes up approximately 70 percent of its business. Its recently acquired facilities from the former Republic Windows & Doors in Chicago and
Kensington Windows in Vandergrift, Pa., both
will be dedicated to producing the company’s
energy-efficient windows.
Energy Exhibits and Education
As has been the trend in recent years (see June
2008 USGlass, page 18, for last year’s AIA review),
architects came to the convention looking for
information about energy-efficient products.
“Because of sustainability in buildings we’ve
been looking at low-E glasses really carefully,” said
Glenn Rescalvo with Handel Architects LLP in
San Francisco. “We’re looking at the coatings that
are applied to them and how we can use them to
reduce heat gain and mechanical loads in the
buildings. Fritted glass also works great; we can use
it to the maximum 70 to 80 percent frit and still
get visibility while also reducing our heat loads.”
Ben Tranel, an architect with Gensler, also in
San Francisco, was interested in sustainability and
energy performance. He was especially interested
in glass with a frit on the exterior surface.
“Up until now we’ve always used frit on the
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Arch Aluminum & Glass debuted its Active Solar Glass
products at the AIA Expo. The transparent green sample
is on the left, with the red color on the right.
[inside surface] and on a lot of our projects we’re
looking for ways to put it on the exterior to create
a real contrast on the exterior reflectivity,” Tranel
said. He also was searching at for sustainability in
the way of triple-glazed insulating glass units and
argon-filled glass, as well as the “next generation”
of high performance low-E coatings.
Edgetech I.G. Inc. had in its booth a Pittsburgh
Corning glass block that it’s helping to insulate,
combining energy performance with style. The new
energy-efficient glass block features a low-E coated
lite sandwiched inside the block to filter out solar
heat gain, and sealed courtesy of Edgetech. The
Cambridge, Ohio-based company also displayed its
new SustainaBlock™ line of setting blocks, a line
of stable silicone setting blocks available in a variety of sizes, profiles and materials.
Green was a focus for show organizers as well.
Mill Valley, Calif.-based NanaWall Systems was
honored at the Expo by its inclusion in one of
the AIA’s top ten green projects: the world headquarters for the International Fund for Animal
Welfare. The facility uses a NanaWall movable
More Products, More Architects
To further get your new-product fix, see page 26 in June USGlass for the
USGlass 26th Annual Guide to New Products, including many of those featured at the American Institute of Architect’s (AIA) Annual Convention.
For more AIA, make plans for next year’s convention, to be held June
10-12 in Miami.
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glass wall to connect its cafeteria to the outdoors,
providing natural daylighting and ventilation.
However, among the most energy-efficient
products at the show were those actually generating energy.
“It also seems like everyone has building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) panels displayed in
their booths. It’s something we have not really
used yet, but it’s something everybody seems to
be offering,” Tranel observed.
Guardian Industries was one such company
spotlighting BIPV. The company utilizes thin film
technology, based on copper-indium-sulfide (CIS)
Many companies, including Pilkington, displayed an
array of glass products.
technology, in its modules as the company says
this technology has greater absorption properties
than others and provides thin, efficient modules
with an attractive neutral gray/black appearance.
Although the big model in the booth was two
modules laminated together, Chris Dolan, director, commercial glass program, noted, “We can
make these in larger sizes from two, three, four
modules laminated together.” The standard size
module from the company measures 26 by 50
inches. Guardian’s display, which was fabricated
in cooperation with JE Berkowitz LP and Eureka
Metal & Glass Services, simulated the energy produced through BIPV in a laminated and insulating glass unit.
For some solar exhibitors, visibility was key.
Arch Aluminum and Glass in Tamarac, Fla.,
and Konarka Technologies Inc., a solar plastic
film producer based in New Bedford, Mass., used
the show as an opportunity to announce a joint
development agreement. Under the agreement,
the companies will develop a line of semi-transparent, glass BIPV products called Active Solar
Glass® (ASG).
According to Max Perilstein, Arch’s vice president of marketing, the product “will change the
world of BIPV. The key is that you will be able to
see through our BIPV.”
Perilstein said the product “will give the designer amazing flexibility—color flexibility, energy flexibility, you name it.”
ASG also will incorporate other passive solar
technologies, such as low-E coatings, for an energy-efficient and energy-generating line of window,
skylights and curtainwalls.
Premier Power highlighted its work in BIPV
with the slogan “solar with style.” Company representatives are aiming to match form and function
with design in integrating solar products into vertical facades, curtainwalls and awnings, as well as
more traditional solar roof systems.
Schüco brought its E2 façade to San Francisco.
The façade combines decentralized ventilation,
automated opening units, solar shading and solar
energy generation with the latest thin-film technology—all in one aesthetically pleasing package.
According to Rick Shetterly, who helped to man
that booth, the E2 lites, now in the final stages of
development, are able to create enough energy to
operate themselves.
Among its array of skylight products, Velux
America Inc. offered a product that was new, at
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least to North America. According to Mike
Rhoden, assistant product manager of solar
products, Velux has been offering products for
solar water heating in Europe for 14 years.
“We’ve been green since before it was popular,”
Rhoden commented. In recent months the company has done market research and determined
the time was right to bring its solar offerings to
North America. In fact, the company’s low-profile rooftop solar collectors—which are designed
to have the look of a Velux skylight—were
among the most popular products in the AIA
booth.
PPG Industries showcased its Solarphire AR
(anti-reflective) glass, which is engineered to maximize solar energy transmission to solar-collecting
PV cells. Many architects stopped by the booth
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interested in the product, said James Bogdan,
manager of green building initiatives for PPG.
He also noted that the company is working to
elevate interest in the LEED program, adding, “But
not everyone is on board completely just yet.”
Decorative Highlights
While performance, in the way of green and
sustainability, were high priorities for attendees,
so, too, was appearance. From color, to patterns,
textures and even a combination of all three,
attendees found plenty of new decorative glass
products.
“Architects are very interested in decorative
glass,” said Jeff Nichols, vice president of sales
and marketing for Standard Bent Glass. His company now has the equipment to manufacture
Talking with Architects
Despite the fact that show traffic may have seemed slower compared to years past, several industry companies said the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Annual Convention was still a strong event. In fact, Laura
Shamblin, marketing coordinator for Vetrotech Saint-Gobain, said her company more than doubled their leads
compared to last year’s show. Vetrotech exhibited with a new booth design, which Shamblin said helped contribute to the interest due to the open layout and interactive glass display.
“Many architects were interested in the 90-minute glass floor display presented by Greenlite Glass Systems
Inc. (a Vetrotech distributor),” Shamblin said, noting the display of a variety of additional fire-rated products.
“Having life-size pieces of our fire-rated glass allowed the architects to get an up-close view of how our glass
looks when installed and to see the actual thickness of each piece. We had many questions about code issues
and design possibilities with all of our wall systems, as well.”
With concerns over the slow construction market heavy on the minds of many, some companies scheduled to
exhibit chose not to at the last minute. Geoff Brown, president of Imaging Sciences, a company with digital
printing capabilities for glass, said he felt it was still important to be at the show to try and educate the architectural and design community about all that’s possible with glass. By exhibiting, he said, he’s able to help
architects better understand all of the available decorative technologies.
“You’re re-growing the market by talking to people, and it’s also creating market through educating them,”
said Brown.
The presentation of several AIA-registered expo education programs led many to Kawneer Co. Inc.’s expansive booth. The 15-minute expo education program conducted within the exhibit’s dedicated learning center
qualified as credit toward AIA learning units.
“This gives them the opportunity to come learn something and gain the continuing education points that they
need—and gives us an opportunity for us to have a reason to have them come in, look around, see everything
we’ve got and spend some time talking with us,” commented Henry Taylor, manager of architectural services
for Kawneer.
Garrett Henson, director of sales of Viracon in Owatonna, Minn., found the show to be a good opportunity to
touch base with customers. Henson said he had heard a lot of interest in interiors or specialty-type glass.
Among other products, Viracon’s booth was offering information on the new blue-gray VUE-50 insulating glass.
Dave Helfin, marketing director of Akzo Nobel in Houston, found himself going over familiar ground with
new faces. “For powder coatings, there’s a lot of education that has to go on,” he said. “A lot of times architects are asking what powder coating is?” Helfin was more than happy to explain to his audience benefits of
powder coating over conventional paint—such as that it neither emits volatile organic compounds nor contains
solvents and can produce thicker coatings without running.
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compound, complex bent/curved glass. “We can
bend the glass into 3-D shapes,” said Nichols,
who added with their laminating capabilities they
can also create decorative, curved, safety/security
glass. “That’s something else we’re seeing—the
combination of safety or ballistic glass that’s also
decorative,” Nichols added.
Digitally printed glass products were among
some of the newest developments at the show.
NGI Designer Glass actually showcased its
booth, which was constructed to feature its
brand new product: SubliStyle. The product
involves the reproduction of digital, high-definition photography and artwork onto glass. It was
co-developed with VanDijken Glas out of
Amsterdam and together they are partnering
with Peter Sterling, an Amsterdam-based photographer who has contracts with a number of
museums to photograph many of the world’s
masterpieces.
“There has been tremendous interest in this
product because the technology allows architects
and designers to have anything at all printed onto
glass,” said Martin Miles, vice president of sales
and marketing.
General Glass International promoted its new
direct-to-glass digitally printing capabilities.
Richard Balik, vice president of sales, said there
was much interest in the product, brand-named
Alice.
“Architects are excited about all of the applications in which this can be used,” he said. “The
process involves ink-jet printing a permanent
ceramic frit image onto glass, which will not fade.
It’s also possible to print large formats onto
glass.”
Oldcastle Glass® introduced its digital printed
glass, i-Glass™. The process also involves printing
the images directly onto glass. The company says
it can even replicate the look of wood or marble.
Other companies offered decorative laminated
glass products that involve printing imagery onto
interlayer materials, such as PVB. Both J.E.
Berkowitz and Standard Bent Glass are licensed
fabricators of DuPont’s SentryGlas®
Expressions™ technology, which they displayed
during the show.
Companies also offered decorative products
that involved printing on different types of materials. Arch Deco (the decorative branch of Arch
Aluminum & Glass) offered a product called
Visual™, a decorative, laminated safety glass constructed with PET film.
Acid-etched products also were well represented. For Walker Glass its patterned acid-etched
glass and mirrors were a key focus.
“By etching mirror we can turn a traditionally
functional product into a decorative, visual product,” said Marc Deschamps, business development
manager. His company often get questions about
how acid-etched products can be used and applications for which it is appropriate. “We are trying
to educate the architects and the design community on the products and ways that they can be
used, both interior and exterior.”
Likewise, Guardian Industries introduced
SunGuard SatinDeco glass, which combines the
energy-saving properties of SunGuard architectural glass with the acid-etched quality and aesthetics
of SatinDeco.
“Architects and designers have been interested
in SatinDeco because it does not diminish the
light transmitted but rather diffuses or softens it,”
said Dolan. “This allows higher light transmission
without glare in interior space.”
OmniDecor traveled all the way from Italy to
show its line of satin-finished glass, patterned
glass and anti-slip products for use in floors and
stairs. This was OmniDecor’s first time exhibiting
at the AIA show and the company’s Domenico
Tanera said it was a good experience.
“We know that while there is interest we still
need to educate the architects and that’s why it
was important for us to be here,” said Tanera.
Cardinal Shower Enclosures/Hoskin & Muir
Inc., which does its own fabrication, including
cast glass production, has expanded its operations
beyond just shower doors. The company now
offers a variety of decorative products, such as
countertops and room dividers. Mikel Kinser, vice
president, said that because the company fabricates all of its glass, it has complete control over
the quality of its products.
Likewise, Goldray displayed an array of decorative options, from printed glass for walls and partitions; products for floors and stairs; and even its
new marker boards, which Cathie Saroka, marketing director, said got tremendous feedback from
attendees. AG
Ellen Rogers is the editor and Megan Headley is a
contributing editor of the Architects’ Guide to Glass.
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