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Product Information Zoom Fit + – I< < > >I © 2012 USGlass Magazine. All rights reserved. No reproduction of any type without expressed written permission. Contents Search Archives E-Mail Subscribe INSIDE: The History of GANA’s Glass Tempering Division METAL & GLAZING ® THE MAGAZINE OF RECORD FOR ARCHITECTURAL GLASS INDUSTRY LEADERS VOLUMEVOLUME 47,47, ISSUEISSUE 77 JULYJULY 20122012 The 29th Annual Guide to New Products Also Inside: and • Architects and Their Favorite New Glass Products Services • Decorative Interlayers: Does Size Matter? Free Subscriptions Available at www.glass.com/subcenter LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY GLASS MAGAZINE Product Information Zoom Fit + – I< < > >I © 2012 USGlass Magazine. All rights reserved. No reproduction of any type without expressed written permission. 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Contents Search Archives E-Mail Subscribe [July 2012] columns 4 Issue @ Hand 6 GANA Perspective 64 The Business features departments 29th Annual Guide 10 News Now to New Products 12 Company News 26 Are you looking for a new glass 14 Industry Outlook offering or framing system–or more? 16 Global Update Turn to page 26 for our annual, expansive guide to the newest 18 Energy and Environment products on the market. 20 Contract Glazing 22 Financial Flash 24 Legislation and Legal HowNorm Nitschke, Far We’ve Robert Brown Come and 54 NewsMakers 44 Stanley Joehlin recall the early history 56 Reviews & Previews of the Glass Tempering Association, 57 Up & Coming the predecessor of the present-day 58 Supplier’s Guide Tempering Division of the Glass 62 Classifieds Association of North America, as well as the beginning of the Safety Glazing 63 Advertising Index Certification Council. ••• ProductFrom big jobs toTalk small, they all pretty on the cover 48 much need glass and architects are finding new products and technologies This issue features our annual Guide are key to their current designs. to New Products, which includes products from a range of suppliers, including (clockwise from top): JE Berkowitz LP; Sevasa; Western SizeDecorative Matters glass doesn’t have to be of a Window Systems; Thermal huge scale to make an impact. Here we Windows; Cardinal Shower 50 take a look at two projects, each small- Enclosures; and EFCO Corp. Turn to scale, but with lasting impressions. page 26 for the full guide. USGlass, Metal and Glazing (ISSN 0041-7661), Reg. U.S. Patent Office is published 12 times per year by Key Communications, Inc., P.O. Box 569, Garrisonville, VA 22463; 540/720-5584; Fax 540/720-5687. Subscrip- tions are free to all qualified recipients. Postage fees apply to addresses outside the U.S. Advertising offices listed on page 6. Unsolicited manuscripts and other materials will not be returned unless accompanied by a self- addressed, stamped envelope. All contents are ©2012 by Key Communications, Inc. Neither publisher nor its representatives nor its subcontractors assume liability for errors in text, charts, advertisements, etc. and suggest appropriate companies be contacted before specification or use of products advertised or included in editorial materials. 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Levy Extension 111 • [email protected] Editor Penny Stacey Extension 148 • [email protected] Special Projects Megan Headley Editor Extension 114 • [email protected] Contributing Tara Taffera, vice president Editors Extension 113 • [email protected] Insulating Comes of Age Charles Cumpston nyonewhohasanydoubtthe’10swillbethedecadeofinsulatingglassdid Extension 153 • [email protected] not get to hear Mike McHugh’s excellent recent presentation about the fu- Katie O’Mara Extension 130 • [email protected] ture of insulating glass. McHugh, president of Integrated Automation Sys- Ellen Rogers tems, gave one of those clichéd presentations during the recent Glass Processing Extension 118 • [email protected] AAutomation Days event, organized by Fenetech, in Cleveland in June. Circulation Thomas Cory I say clichéd presentation because you could describe it as an eye-popping Director [email protected] Managing Dawn Campbell and head-jerking seminar along with every other jaw-dropping cliché you could Editor Extension 150 • [email protected] imagine and that still wouldn’t do it justice. And, yes, you could hear a pin drop Graphic Ashley Weaver throughout the whole thing. No one left, let alone even stood up. Nary a Black- Artist Extension 132 • [email protected] Advertising Nickie Lively berry nor iPhone was checked during the entire presentation. Coordinator Extension 131 • [email protected] That’s because McHugh, in cooperation with Quanex, did quite a bit of mod- Event Manager Tina Czar eling using different types of insulating glass units (IGUs) with varying char- Extension 115 • [email protected] acteristics. They varied a number of factors including ones you would expect Event Ally Curran such as number of lites, IG unit thickness, type of airspace fill (argon, krypton, Coordinator Extension 133 • [email protected] Marketing Holly Biller, vice president air, etc.), types of glass including hard and/or softcoat low-E, the number of Director Extension 123 • [email protected] surfaces coated, and the edge effect of the spacer. Then they went further and Customer Janeen Mulligan added a number of additional, less usual variants such as the amount of silver Relations Mgr. Extension 112 • [email protected] Web Bryan Hovey coating (one, two or three) and which surfaces were coated (including Surface Developer Extension 125 • [email protected] No. 4 in doubles and Surface No. 6 in triples). Video Chris Bunn But they weren’t done yet because they also modeled a number of “asym- Producer Extension 121 • [email protected] metrical” triple-pane units, which had different thicknesses of space between Administrative Erin Harris Assistant Extension 0 • [email protected] the first and second lites and the second and third. And they didn’t assume just Published by one fill either; varying percentages of argon, krypton and air were used in each. Key Communications Inc. P.O. Box 569 Finally, and this truly is the pièce de résistance, they figured out both the cost Garrisonville, VA 22463 USA to make each unit and the Energy Star rating it would receive. The result is a 540/720-5584; fax 540/720-5687 roadmap of how much it costs to achieve better R-values. Some relatively inex- Advertising Offices: pensive upgrades can better the R-value by 2 or 3 points, while other more costly Midwest Lisa Naugle Associate Publisher ones might yield just another point. [email protected] Phone 312/850-0899 Fax 312/277-2912 Northeast & Contact Publisher Directly Eastern Canada [email protected] Phone 540/720-5584 x111 Fax 540/720-5687 Southeast Scott Rickles [email protected] Phone 770/664-4567 Fax 770/740-1399 West Coast & Josh Lentz Western Canada [email protected] Phone 206/283-6762 Fax 888/786-8777 Europe Patrick Connolly [email protected] 99 Kings Road, Westcliff on Sea Essex SS0 8PH ENGLAND Phone (44) 1-702-477341 Fax (44) 1-702-477559 China & Asia Sean Xiao [email protected] Rm.403, Block 17, Wuyimingzhu No.6 Jinshan Road, This is one of several sample charts McHugh provided. Look for more in the Fuzhou, Fujian, 350001, China. Phone (86) 591 83863000 August issue