Source: Window & Door The 2014 fensterbau/frontale trade show took place in Nuremberg, Germany, last week, where 796 exhibitors, including more than 300 international companies, gathered to show their products and machinery for windows, doors and facades.
Source: Window & Door Last Wednesday in Cambridge, Mass., CEOs from the major window and door manufacturing companies got statistical confirmation that new construction is back in double-digit growth for the first time since 2005.
Source: Glass Magazine Economist Jeff Dietrich echoed the theme of this year’s GlassBuild America when he said the time is now to invest. “Get off the fence and do things now,” said Dietrich, senior analyst for the Institute for Trend Research. Dietrich spoke Sept. 10 during the 8th annual Glazing Executives Forum, held in conjunction with the GlassBuild America tradeshow in Atlanta.
Source: Glass Magazine Finding and keeping good employees was the recurring theme during the 8th annual Glazing Executives Forum, held Sept. 10 as part of GlassBuild America: The Glass, Window & Door Expo in Atlanta. GEF, hosted by the National Glass Association, drew about 125 attendees.
source: The USGlass News Network It wasn’t quite the numbers Adam Barefoot, the president of Four Oaks, N.C.-based NC Glazing Fabrication, had in mind when he signed on as an exhibitor at this year’s GlassBuild America show in Atlanta.
Source: Window & Door Speaking at the Fourth Annual Window and Door Dealers Forum, held in conjunction with GlassBuild America this week in Atlanta, Hanley Wood Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke predicted housing starts would surpass 1 million next year and return to their historic levels of 1.5 million to 1.6 million starts around 2015 or 2016.
Source:Window & Door GlassBuild America: The Glass, Window & Door Expo is underway in Atlanta, where hundreds of exhibitors, including more than 90 from outside of the United States, are displaying the latest in new products and technology for the window and door, and glass and metal industries. Organized by the National Glass Association, GlassBuild America is cosponsored by the American Architectural Manufacturers Association, the Glass Association of North America, the Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance and the Bath Enclosure Manufacturers Association.
Source: DWM GlassBuild America may have international reach, but the resounding theme for many exhibitors is a focus on American-based manufacturing. While certainly not all exhibitors sported Made in the USA logos, those who did displayed it prominently and proudly.
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