In the previous post Glass Replacement Queen Creek talked about the issues of energy efficiency affecting the U.S. glass industry and the benefits of implementing energy efficiency technologies. We concluded that energy efficiency was not simply desirable for the U.S. glass manufacturers but could readily become an important source of their strategic advantage. Today it is useful to look at what the U.S. glass industry is doing to achieve better energy and environmental compliance. Glass Replacement Queen Creek believes that glass manufacturers in the United States are doing a lot to enhance the efficiency of their energy systems and solutions.

It should be noted that natural gas and electricity make up the bulk of energy consumed by U.S. glass manufacturers. The lion?s share of all energy consumed by the U.S. glass industry goes to glass melting. It is the discussed combination of natural gas and electricity that drives and supports glass melting. Heating takes almost 70 percent of all energy in the American glass sector. However, over the past decade U.S. glass manufacturers have advanced themselves considerably toward greater environmental and energy compliance. Glass Replacement Queen Creek has learned that almost all leading manufacturers of glass in the United States voluntarily participate in a wide range of various programs protecting the environment and employee health and safety. The Environmental Protection Agency encourages and involves almost every third glass manufacturer in America in its programs. In the meantime, the industry invests sizeable resources in research and development. For example, given the risks of asbestos effects on employee health, the U.S. Glass Industry has initiated a nation-wide research of fiber glass manufacturing. As a result, it was generally concluded that the production of fiber glass was low-risk and safe to health and safety of all stakeholders. In 1994 alone, U.S. glass manufacturers spent $250 million on environmental efforts. These, however, are merely the beginnings of the broad movement toward greater efficiency and better environmental protection in U.S. glass.

Today is Christmas. Christmas is today. The biggest religious holiday and secular celebration of the year, Christmas is usually associated with the feelings of joy and glory. In the modern world, Christmas is also associated with huge discounts and the growing sense of the end of the year. Children are waiting for Christmas because they are looking for presents. Adults look for Christmas as one of the brightest holidays and reasons to get some rest after a hard year of work. Unfortunately, in fuss and joy we often forget the true meaning behind Christmas. We forget the religious and emotional meaning brought to us by this wonderful holiday, and today is the best day for Glass Replacement Gilbert to remind us of the true meaning and the unprecedented significance of the Christmas day.

As a company that values diversity, Glass Replacement Gilbert realizes that the interpretations of the Christmas holiday can vary across religions and cultures. This is not to say that not all cultures celebrate X-mas on the 25th of December and some do not have such a holiday at all. Here we talk about Catholic traditions and Christmas as a culmination of religious commitments and traditions during the year. In this sense, X-mas can be interpreted as a combination of two words ?Christ and Mass, which merge to shape the word ?Christmas.? This is the day when Jesus Christ was born, setting the stage for the development of the new human era. Glass Replacement Gilbert reminds you that the original date of Christmas was the 6th of January, until the entire Western world switched over to another version of the calendar. The Orthodox world continues celebrating Christmas on January, 6th.

Certainly, today Christmas has already lost its religious uniqueness and is often believed to be a secular holiday. The western world treats Christmas as the sign of the coming New Year and the day when whole families should gather to celebrate their unity and the birth of Christ. The main thing is to remember that Christ was born to relieve the burden of sins pressuring our shoulders, and we ourselves are responsible for living a healthy and moral life.

Few Westerners know that Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and the rest of the Eastern Christian world celebrates Christmas on the 7th of January and not on the 25th of December like Catholics. Many Westerners are surprised when they hear that Ukrainians and Russians have their Christmas at the end of the first week of January. However, the history of these calendar and religious differences goes back into the centuries, and Glass Replacement Queen Creek wants to shed light on the existing disparities between the Catholics and the Orthodox.

Russians and Ukrainians have their Christmas celebrated in the best traditions of Orthodox Christianity. Based on the old Julian calendar, Christmas always happens on the 7th of January, the day of solemnity and celebration for the entire Orthodox community. After 1917 and the October Revolution Christmas, as well as all other religious holidays, was officially banned. Churches were being destroyed, and religion was called ?the opium for the masses?. 75 years passed, until in 1992 Christmas restored its status and became one of the biggest religious holidays in the Orthodox landscape. Today millions of Russians and Ukrainians come to church on the eve of the Christmas to stand the all-night Mass and express their religious gratitude.

The main traditions of Orthodox Christmas differ greatly from the Christmas traditions pursued by Catholics. Glass Replacement Queen Creek knows that Christmas in Russia and Ukraine marks the end to the long religious fast, which lasts until the 6th of Jan, when the first star appears in the sky. As always, Christmas is a family holiday, and the dinner following the church mass should be shared with all family members. This is why on this day children visit their parents or other relatives to celebrate their unity, peace, and happiness. The so-called Holy Supper follows the traditions of Christianity, with no single piece of meat but with grains, honey and garlic; the latter reminds Orthodox Christians of the bitterness of life. Despite these differences, Christmas remains one of the most important religious points in the lives of every Christian.

It is no secret that the construction and glass industries are closely related. This being said, glass industry players, including Glass Replacement Chandler, are extremely interested in how the U.S. construction industry operates. Really, the more we build the more glass we produce, and recent trends in the construction industry hold a promise to enhance the glass industry?s capacity. The reason is that construction spending in the U.S. hit the 18-month record and is likely to increase. Glass Replacement Chandler reports that construction spending in America has increased considerably compared to October, as private commercial construction and homebuilding began to increase. While the levels of public spending drop below the unreasonable, construction professionals keep fighting to sustain their position in the industry. In the first quarter of 2012 apartment building and nonresidential construction will continue to grow. Private transportation construction is one of the most promising areas of the construction industry. This is where glass manufacturers can earn additional profits.

Glass Replacement Chandler recommends that glass manufacturers pay particular attention to nonresidential commercial and educational construction. As public spending is shrinking, private residential and nonresidential construction is becoming the most attractive object of investments. Simultaneously, glass-construction partnership decisions should be treated with caution, since in the conditions of the continued economic downturn not all projects and partnerships are feasible. However, the construction industry is an ever-growing field, which comprises numerous activities, from alteration and repair to construction from the scratch. As a result, it is possible to assume that glass manufacturers will always find a possibility to realize themselves in construction. All they need to do is to monitor the trends and changes in the construction industry and adjust their priorities to meet the needs and demands of the construction industry players.

In the two previous blogs we were talking about the role and place of energy efficiency and environmental protection in the U.S. glass industry. We discussed the meaning and costs of energy in the glass industry in America and tried to see what exactly U.S. glass manufacturers were doing to enhance their energy efficiency and reduce the effects of their production on the environment. Glass Replacement Gilbert concluded that glass manufacturers in America were doing a lot to make themselves more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. However, we did not answer a very important question: what exactly should U.S. glass manufacturers do to reduce their energy expenditures?

Glass Replacement Gilbert believes that answering this question is impossible without developing the basic understanding of the glass melting process; the latter is considered as the most energy-intensive in the entire glass manufacturing cycle. U.S. manufacturers cannot conserve energy and achieve a better quality of capital investments without making relevant and feasible changes to the glass melting process. The most important changes are to be made in melting, and most technologies implemented to conserve energy will have to touch the melting aspect of glass manufacturing in the U.S. In its current state, the glass industry in America relies on the melting principles developed at the end of the 19th century. Despite the recent advancement of technologies, principles of melting and production have been mostly the same. Glass Replacement Gilbert believes that the development of U.S. glass manufacturing in the 20th century was devoid of revolutionary changes, and it is high time for the industry to turn itself toward new technologies. This being said, achieving greater energy efficiency in the U.S. Glass industry is possible only by means of developing a radically new melting process. The operating margins of glass manufacturers need to be assessed. Eventually, we believe that meeting these goals is possible only with continuous collaboration and support of all manufacturers. A combined effort is needed to ensure smooth and continuous implementation of energy efficient technologies.