The Cost of Poor Quality
 Recycling bins at most glass fabrication plants fill up quickly with scratched, broken and incorrectly tempered, coated, laminated and fabricated glass. Defective glass impacts profits significantly, with the typical North American fabricator annually losing 4 percent to more than 10 percent in profits due to poor quality products.
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What Your Truck Says about You
By Nicole Harris
On the dos and don’ts checklist, it pays to remember your company’s fleet, even if a fleet of one, is a moving, multi-ton business card.
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From the Fabricator: Think About the Pink
By Max Perilstein
Being that it was a quiet week in the industry, I decided to use this post to talk about the pink… the pink that is dominating this month thanks to breast cancer awareness efforts.
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Bullitt Center
Contract glazier: Goldfinch Brothers
Glass fabricator: Northwestern Industries Inc.
Glass supplier: PPG Industries
Spacer system manufacturer: Technoform Glass Insulation Located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, the $18.5 million Bullitt Center office building opened on Earth Day, and boasts it is the greenest commercial building in the world. The six-story, 52,000-square-foot, Class A office building’s unusually tall 14-foot floor-to-floor heights are matched with equally impressive floor-to-ceiling operable window systems, providing daylight and expansive views of
the downtown skyline and surrounding environment. Read more...
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Kawneer and Traco added a new product to the OptiQ Ultra Thermal Window Series, the AA5450 Series single- and double-hung windows, adding to their thermal and blast mitigation offerings.
