Hope everyone had a good holiday. Though having the holiday on a Wednesday made
for a seriously disjointed workweek!
GlassBuild America is about two months away and judging from
the suppliers lining up to do the show, it’s looking to be a terrific event. In this world we live in, information and
knowledge leads to extreme power, and with what will be on display in Vegas
this year that “powerful” opportunity will be at hand. Obviously I am biased as I am a supporter of
the show, but take that away and look at some of the people and products that
will be on display and you will see where I am going with this. The technology and innovation being readied
are difference makers and the people that attend will benefit and those who
stay home will be steps behind. So
starting with this week’s post I’ll make one note a week here on the blog about
GBA, just because I believe its THAT important.
And I’m also sure you’ll be hearing tons more about the show in the next
30-45 days but take a few minutes, review the current trade show floor, and go book
your flights & hotels as the prices are pretty economical. It’s worth it folks, plain and simple.
Elsewhere…
-- Quietly it looks like Kevin Surace is now gone officially
from Serious Materials. Surace surely
made a heck of an impression in his short time in the industry. He was a memorable keynote speaker at the
Glazing Executive Forum last year and was never shy with an opinion or new
approach. He was a lightning rod for
sure. My favorite was when Surace
blogged that the window industry needed to shed 50% of its capacity… pretty
bizarre since you know we’d all like half our competitors to just “give up” and
his company actually was adding capacity including grabbing plants for publicity
more than production. So all that said you
now have to wonder how what happens next there… especially will the famous
Chicago plant (the sit in plant, where Surace rode to the rescue) be sold to
the employees, as they want? Gonna be
interesting…
-- Hot enough for everyone?
Hopefully my friends in the DC/Virginia area are starting to get back to
normal after the brutal storms. Mother
Nature has not been kind.
-- There were some sneaky good tweets by Mark Silverberg of
Technoform during the Facades Tectonics Conference last week. He linked to a few good pieces and he passed
on a great line from conference speaker Mic Patterson of Enclos “We must innovate our way to sustainability
in the building sector” Right on guys! Oh and to clarify, I say “sneaky”
because Mark is like the “EF Hutton” of Tweeters… when he tweets, people
listen! (At least I do)
-- Speaking of good tweets, Glass Magazine’s Katy Devlin kept
everyone up to date on what sounded like a great WDMA meeting in
Minnesota. The highlites once again were
the advanced technology plays (see that theme again!) that are an absolute must
for our industry to thrive.
-- Was introduced to one of the brains behind Swarfbuster this
past week. I had heard of them and seen
them mentioned on blogs and on LinkedIn but honestly I never knew what/who they
were… so it was pretty cool to actually get some knowledge. Turns out to be a fascinating product too as
I never knew about “Swarfs” and it’s effect on glass fabrication. (Swarfs are the dust and leftover particles
that end up bonding together to gunk up glass fabrication equipment like
polishers) You learn something new everyday. I hope to see them at the show!
-- Last this week this comical story from New Jersey about the
New York Giants and Jets filing a lawsuit to stand in the way of some
redevelopment in the area around their stadium.
The teams are worried about the
traffic it will cause during their game days…. Uh can we get any shorter
sighted? Football teams play once per
week…. So sure let’s stand in it’s way
right? Unreal.
LINKS of the WEEK
And yes our society falls down yet another peg… yeesh.
This was hilarious… the real names of foods… Love the
Twinkie one as I may be the only human alive that think they are awful.
VIDEO of the WEEK
This one comes from my friend Manny, still glowing from his
Miami Heat title… it’s the most amazing printer I have ever seen… simply mind
blowing stuff here.
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