Lights, Camera, Action!

Even before I hopped my plan for Vegas this past Monday morning I was thinking about glass. Anyone whose ever walked from the Pittsburgh airport parking lot to the terminal … well … let’s back up and re-phrase that to say any glass person walking from the parking lot to the terminal has certainly noticed the display of roller-wave distortion in the walls of windows along the way. Going back to my original thought, I’m sure even the non-glass folks have seen the ripples and just didn’t know what they were or why they were there.

So certainly roller wave distortion, as well as other tempering topics, were on the agenda this past week as part of GANA’s Glass Fabrication & Glazing Educational Conference, which took place in Vegas. If you’re not familiar, it’s an event that’s ideal for those relatively new to the industry as it serves up a program of essential information that everyone in the glass industry should know, from taking care of those tempering furnace rolls, to cleaning and handling glass, as well as a look at industry-specific codes, standards and market trends.

Those of us attending for USGNN.com and USGlass magazine are used to reporting on industry events and conferences by way of the written word. But this past week we all took it a step forward when we did some on-camera reporting. Now I, personally, have a tendency to get all stressed out before trying anything new, be it eating escargot or doing an on-camera interview. I wasn’t sure of how I would sound, if I would, and um, between every other word … it was just nerve-wracking for me at first! But once I did it, I have to admit, it was a lot of fun. Check out some of the interviews at www.usgnn.com.

Speaking of this past week, you probably know we celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday. Greg Saroka, president of Goldray Industries, talked to USGlass publisher Deb Levy about some of what his company is doing to be a "greener" glass company (you can see that interview from Glass Fab on www.usgnn.com, too). There's lots we all can do--individually and as an industry--to help protect the earth and the environment. Please share your ideas by posting a comment here or sending me an email.