In my last several blogs, I promised to focus on the bright spots. As the GreenBuild show is being held this week, and there is much news in today’s newsletter focused on energy and efficiency, I thought this would be a good time to remind everyone of the opportunities that lie in this growing area.While [...]

I’ll start this column by telling you that I try to stay out of political discussions for the most part as I have the view that you have your views, I have mine and we’re probably not going to change each others’ opinions by arguing about them.But that being said I can’t help but make [...]

So I’ll tell you that yesterday was not a good day for me. I received some personal news about one of my three daughters that wasn’t the best and for the rest of the day I was in a funk.
So what did I do to cheer myself up? I listened to the afternoon portion of [...]

It seems all we’ve reported on recently is news of plant closures, bankruptcy filings and other bad news affecting door and window manufacturers. But while at GlassBuild this week I talked to two door and window manufacturers, who didn’t report of “gloom and doom,” and had a positive attitude, so I wanted to share a [...]

It was an amazing (though frightening) image–one of a lone house along the Texas coastline. This particular home was still standing though there was nothing but debris around it where other homes once stood. I saw the photo of this home after our art director Dawn Campbell sent me the following e-mail.
“I was reading about [...]

Something I read last night struck me so much that I just had to write about it today. I was reading Inc. magazine’s Special Issue, The Inc. 500, and as part of that issue, the magazine interviewed CEOs on various topics. One question they asked was this, “Which line item in your budget would you [...]

While I’ve written about the glass industry for more than ten years, Monday was my first visit to a float glass plant. To all of you who have heard about the process and viewed the videos, let me tell you that nothing compares to seeing this intricate process up close.

I, along with four other editors [...]

Last year when I attended a meeting of the Window and Door Manufacturers Association, attorney Dan Smith of Bowman and Brooke law firm told attendees they might want to consider having different warranties for different geographic areas. I thought this was interesting idea, so when his presentation was over I turned to the window manufacturer [...]

In a recent column, DWM columnist Michael Collins, vice president of the building products group at Jordan, Knauff & Company, wrote about how door and window manufacturers need to “beware the recovery.” I’m sure a few looked at that and thought, “Yeah, right, and turned the page.”

When members of the Insulating Glass Manu-facturers Alliance (IGMA) met recently during their summer meeting they worked to address various industry issues related to insulating glass manufacturing. The meeting was held in mid-June at the Westin Resort & Spa in Whistler, B.C.