Safety is crucial to the success of glass manufacturing. We at Arizona Glass repair know how much it takes to ensure safety and security of all industrial procedures. We know how much professional glaziers invest in devising safety strategies and systems. It is no wonder that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission seeks to implement a series of new safety standards for glaziers. In the middle of 2010, the CPSC proposed imposing new standards of product safety on glass manufacturers; the new standards would include five essential elements ? product specification and production testing, certification testing, recordkeeping, and a remedial action plan. All these elements would operate as part of the single mandatory testing programs, which all glass manufacturers and glaziers would have to implement. Arizona Glass professionals are aware of the changes, which the proposed standards would cause in the glass manufacturing field. Professional glaziers will need to initiate changes to most, if not all, testing procedures, no matter what type of glass products they offer.

Just recently, the Commission announced that the decision to enforce the new standards was postponed. Most probably, the Commission wants to ensure that the new standards are manageable and feasible. In the meantime, glaziers must prepare themselves for regulatory and operational changes. New standards will go into effect and affect only safety glazing materials, which are being installed in hazardous locations. The latter have always been within the jurisdiction of the CPSC. What seems reasonable is that the Commission gives glaziers more time to familiarize themselves with the meaning and implications of the new standards. We hope that the new standards will foster the creation of high quality, safe glass products. We also hope that the new standards will not become another bureaucratic impediment to the development of the American glass market.

It is no secret that the glass manufacturing industry operates in a highly competitive environment. Simultaneously, we, Arizona Glass professional glaziers, are bound to comply with a whole range of regulatory and legal requirements. Glass is a building material that must protect and not cause injuries. Glass must work to enhance the quality of exteriors and interiors. For this reason, Home Glass Repair Phoenix constantly monitors the quality and safety of its glass products. This year, and for the first time in its history, the International Building Code was changed to provide detailed recommendations for fire-protective and fire-resistive glazing. More specifically, the International Building Code now recommends using fire-resistive rather than fire-protective glazing in window, door, and wall assemblies. These changes are described and proposed in Chapter 7 of the IBC. The revised chapter includes a series of tables with appropriate glazing applications, depending on the size and size limits. Home Glass Repair Phoenix believes that professional glaziers need this information to decide where the use of fire-resistive and fire-protective glazing is appropriate.

We at Arizona Glass cooperate with professional architects and constructors, and we feel that the revised recommendations are of huge value to them. We also realize that where architects do their job well, we also have everything needed to meet sophisticated customer requirements. Of course, many glass manufacturers will need to make changes to product specification tables, newsletters, and technical literature. However, Home Glass Repair Chandler knows that there is ?no gain without pain?. The new standards of glazing are extremely important and needed. It?s just that many glaziers will need some time to adjust to the new conditions of playing the glazing game.

Glass manufacturers and professional glaziers write tons of books and articles, to discuss the newest inventions in the glass industry and their benefits for customers. In most instances, employees working to deliver superior quality products remain beyond the curtain of publicity. Yet, without them, producing perfect window systems would have been impossible. Phoenix Glass knows pretty well that employees are the greatest asset. Employees provide valuable knowledge inputs and invest their physical and mental resources, to meet our strategic business goals. Unfortunately, not all glass manufacturers treat their employees with respect. Recent news suggest that some glass manufacturers forget about the value of labor force and the contribution employees make to the development of new products and services.

The City of London Magistrates? Court, UK, prosecuted a London window manufacturer for failure to ensure appropriate sanitary conditions in the workplace. The results of mandatory workplace inspection showed that welfare facilities for employees did not meet the standards of hygiene. Toilets were found to be in a poor state and in need of repair. They had no water and soap, were dirty, and lacked even the simplest hand-drying means. The employer had a chance to improve the situation but did not use it. As a result, he was obligated to pay out almost $10,000 in fines and more than $2,500 in court and other costs.

The case teaches a good lesson of employment relations in the glass industry. The process of glass manufacturing is extremely complex. We Phoenix Glass professionals know perfectly well what it means to treat employees properly. However, we also know that meeting the basic standards of quality is not everything. We always strive to go beyond the basics. In our business relations, we are committed to the values of social responsibility and support. In Phoenix Glass, employees are the source of competitive advantage. We are convinced that employees can strengthen any organization?s position and, for this reason, deserve everything the best!

More and more glass container manufacturers choose to recycle their products. The goal is to achieve a 50% recycling target by 2013. Why recycle glass? Arizona Glass professionals know the answer. Energy efficiency is the main argument in favor of glass recycling. Statistically, recycling only one glass bottle saves the amount of energy needed to light a 100-watt light bulb for four hours and power a TV set for 20 minutes. Home Glass Repair Chandler claims that using 50% recycled glass in glass package manufacturing will save energy to power 22,000 homes and reduce 181,000 tons of waste from landfills. Every ton of recycled glass saves one ton of natural resources. For every 10% cullet in glass manufacturing, energy costs decrease by 2-3%.

The benefits of recycling glass are obvious. Nowadays, there are 50 glass manufacturing facilities operating in 22 states. Almost eighty glass recycling facilities are currently run in 31 states. Arizona Glass professionals know what it takes to run a facility as large and sophisticated as a glass recycling plant. Such plants can process an average of 20 tons of sorted glass every hour. Yet, the process of glass recycling is not without difficulties. The most important is the process of sorting the glass container mix. Porcelain, ceramics, dishware, and Pyrex are the most serious glass recycling contaminants. According to Home Glass Repair Phoenix, only 40% of glass from single-stream collection ends up in the recycling plant, whereas another 40% of glass is thrown to landfills. Thus, the current process of recycling is not perfect. However, Arizona Glass believes that recycling is the future of the glass manufacturing industry. What we need is simply to invest additional resources and knowledge to improve the quality of recycling strategies. Recycling will make glass manufacturers more environmentally friendly.

The glass industry is the industry with the highest wage growth potential? No way! Unbelievable, but true! Arizona Glass asserts that the U.S. glass industry exemplifies the most attractive and rapidly growing sector of the nation?s economy. Take a look at the figures: to begin with, glass manufacturing has been with the humanity since the 7th millennium B.C. As of today, the glass industry earns approximately $28 billion per year in revenues and has almost 150,000 workers. The industry grows 2.5-3% on average. In the meantime, workers in the glass industry earn more than their colleagues in other industries, and wage growth prospects in glass manufacturing are greater than in other industries. The fact is that the American economy is slowly recovering from the last financial crisis. Construction firms are facing greater consumer demand, and glaziers must follow the same trends. Like the construction industry, glass manufacturers will hardly return to pre-recession wage levels, but employees in the glass industry have better opportunities to earn well.

How much do workers in the glass industry earn? Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a good answer to this question. In 2008, median hourly wages of U.S. glaziers were $17.11; today, glaziers? wages have fallen to $16.00. The highest wages achieve an unbelievable $22.66, whereas the lowest earn as much as $10.50. Glaziers? wages vary, depending on the sector of employment: those in the foundation and exterior contracting earn more than those working for building materials supply dealers. Apparently, the greater safety risks the higher glaziers? wages become. Arizona Glass professionals also know that union employees usually earn more than their nonunion colleagues. We also know that the glass industry will be growing fast. Our employees are our greatest asset, and we are prepared for the challenges awaiting us in the future. We also hope that changes in the American economy will support us in our way to business and professional excellence.