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.

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.

Throughout its history, one of the main political objectives in the United States had been to provide all citizens with equal employment opportunities. In the glass industry and elsewhere, being able to get the job by skills and knowledge has become a top strategic priority. The growing number of anti-discrimination laws suggests that the U.S. is moving in the right direction. Unfortunately, the issue of discrimination continues to persist. Home Glass Repair Chandler has learned that the developed world is still facing labor discrimination, and workers in the glass industry often have to go to courts.

Professionals working at Home Glass Repair Chandler have learned about a lawsuit filed by a British glass sales manager against his employer. The manager claims that his employer owes him at least 10,000 in wages and holiday pay. The employer, in turn, argues that the manager had never worked for the company and used to be self-employed. Who is wrong and who is right is to be decided by court. Meanwhile, the sales manager continues to argue that, since he was paid on an hourly basis, he considered himself a full-time employee. Firm representatives insist on treating the sales manager as a self-employed person without any employment contract. Home Glass Repair Chandler will monitor the case. However, even now, there seems to be a huge problem with the anti-discrimination laws in Britain and the U.S. On the one hand, glass industry employees and manufacturers lack a single coherent definition of discrimination. On the other hand, how glass manufacturing firms interpret the meaning of discrimination depends greatly upon their organizational cultures.

As the glass industry is expanding, there is clearly the need to improve the legal climate. This is how the glass industry can secure itself from the cases and lawsuits similar to those in Britain (taken from USGlass News Network).

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.

The whole world is moving toward greater energy efficiency and energy economies. The ongoing energy crisis changes the structure of economic and social values; as a result, millions of people all over the planet have to adopt a new vision of the energy efficient reality, where efficiency is the basic measure of success. Glass Replacement Chandler realizes that the glass industry in the U.S. is not secured from these influences. In other words, like the rest of the American society and the world, the U.S. Glass Industry must learn to comply with the new and emerging energy efficiency standards. It is noteworthy, that the U.S. Glass Industry is made of the four major sectors ? container glass, flat glass, fiberglass, and specialty glass. Glass Replacement Chandler realizes that all these sectors contribute equally to the energy costs and expenditures carried by the entire glass industry in the U.S. Together these sectors consume more than $1.5 billion in energy expenses every year. In other words, every 14th dollar of production costs in U.S. glass manufacturing is spent on energy. Apparently, energy efficiency is the best and most reliable way to reduce these energy costs.

Energy efficiency is valuable not only because it allows reducing energy costs in the U.S. Glass Industry. Energy efficiency is that instrument which allows reducing energy costs without compromising the quality of the ultimate product. More importantly, and Glass Replacement Chandler is convinced, that energy efficiency provides greater opportunities to improve the quality of glass products in the U.S. Glass manufacturers in the U.S. should invest in energy-efficient technologies, since the latter result in considerable quality improvements and higher process efficiency. Energy-efficient technologies in glass manufacturing lead to increased production and other productivity gains. Customers are getting more environmentally friendly and environmentally conscientious. Consequentially, they seek to purchase products and services from environmentally conscientious companies, like them. In this sense, energy efficiency exemplifies an important element of companies? environmental strategies and ?green? brand image. Thus, it is clear that the more U.S. glass manufacturers invest in energy efficiency the more competitive they become. The main thing manufacturers should learn is how exactly energy efficient technologies need to be implemented.