GANA News

March 8, 2010

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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Economy Focus

"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.

GANA Calendar of Events

Add These Events to Your Calendar by Clicking Each Link Below
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

Monthly Safety Bulletin

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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Industry News

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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