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GANA
Virtual Tradeshow An Online Success
One of the new features of last year's BEC
Conference was a virtual tradeshow. We created
this new feature as a way for many of our member
companies to showcase their products and
services to the industry without the cost of
travel, shipping and time spent manning a
physical booth. Additionally, the increasing
popularity of online tradeshows has proven that
this means of marketing is full of potential for
the commercial glass and glazing industry. The
tradeshow was online with heavy promotion during
the BEC Conference last year and it drew great
national and international traffic for our
exhibitors.
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GANA
Announced Keith McCoy to Speak at Glass Week
The Glass Association of North America (GANA)
announced that Keith McCoy, Vice President and
senior lobbyist on energy issues for the
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM),
would address its members during the upcoming
Glass Week conference event in Las Vegas later
this month. McCoy is also the executive director
of the Business Network for Environmental
Justice, a voluntary organization of business,
corporations, industry trade associations,
industry service providers and business groups
interested in environmental justice issues.
Additionally, he serves on the National Advisory
Council for the Corporate Wetlands Restoration
Partnership, a unique private/public partnership
to restore wetlands and other aquatic habitats
in the United States. He will discuss the
current status of the green movement in
Washington, D.C., as well as implications for
the glass and glazing industry.
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GANA
Releases 25th Glass Informational Bulletin
The Glass Association of North America (GANA)
announced the release of its 25th Glass
Informational Bulletin (GIB), a series of
educational documents available to the industry
as a free download on their website. Titled
Detention Facility Glazing, the GIB
discusses technology and several test standards
used for detention facility glazing. Glazing
contractors who work on this type of project are
encouraged to download the free bulletin, as
well as fabricators of detention facility
glazing, who could pass the bulletin along to
customers.
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GANA
Account Executive Celebrates Decade with
Association
GANA Account Executive Ashley Charest recently
celebrated her ten year anniversary working for
the Association. Hired by ASC (GANA's management
company) in 1999 as GANA's Meeting Planner,
Charest was named as GANA's Account Executive a
year later.
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Deadline
for GANA Educational Foundation Scholarships
Approaching
The deadline for scholarship applications from
the GANA Educational Foundation is rapidly
approaching. Scholarship applications for
under-graduate and graduate degrees are due in
the Foundation's office by April 1st.
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"Wouldn't It Be Nice If..."
by
Jeff
Thredgold, CSP, President, Thredgold Economic
Associates
…the fastest U.S. economic growth pace in six
years!
...the President and the Congressional
leadership would stop talking about being
"pro-business" and actually a) promote
pro-business policies, and b) remove
anti-business initiatives that dominate their
agenda.
...we weren't running a federal budget deficit
of $183,000,000 every 60 minutes.
...the Federal Reserve's upcoming attempts to
unwind unprecedented monetary stimulus would be
successful, with inflation staying under
control.
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Reprinted with
permission from the "Tea Leaf" by Jeff Thredgold.
Copyright, 2010, Thredgold Economic Associates,
LLC. To subscribe to Jeff's free weekly email
update, visit
www.thredgold.com.
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Glass Week 2010:
http://www.glasswebsite.com/events/GlassWeek.ics
BEC Conference 2010:
http://www.glasswebsite.com/events/BECConference.ics
GANA Fall
Conference 2010:
http://www.glasswebsite.com/events/ganafc2010.ics
March -
PPE Selection
Using PPE is often essential, but it is
generally the last line of defense after
engineering controls, work practices and
administrative controls. How is the right PPE
chosen? Employers are required (by OSHA) conduct
and certify that a work place assessment was
completed to determine if hazards that require
PPE are present or likely to be present. To do
this properly, all hazards involved with a
specific task or operation need to be evaluated
to determine the nature of the exposure.
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bulletins we offer monthly. If you have a
great topic idea,
send us an email with a description and we
will work to complete it.
PGC International Announces Ability to Download
Past Webinars
The Protective Glazing Council (PGC)
International announced that several of the
webinars it has hosted for the past year are now
available for purchase and download on its
website. Its recent webinar on ballistics and
security glazing by industry expert John Bush
drew its largest live webinar audience, and
Bush's webinar is a featured download.
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AAMA Supports Commercial Energy-Efficiency
Incentives Through Building STAR Legislation
The American Architectural Manufacturers
Association (AAMA) announces its participation
in Building STAR, promoting a fast-acting,
short-term program of rebates and tax incentives
for energy-efficient improvements to commercial
properties and large, multi-family buildings.
Renovating and retrofitting facilities with
high-performance windows and doors are among the
recommended projects that would qualify for
these incentives.
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