Information is valuable, and experience tells us that it is most reliable when it is received first hand. In my case, this is often reaffirmed when a customer tells me how good a product really is, and it certainly was when I spoke with the three firms of liquidators appointed to the various incarnations of Coldseal, in an attempt to figure out what is actually happening.

Good information is hopefully what you read Glass Age for. As the monthly newspaper for your industry, we aim to search out the breaking stories, new developments and industry ‘firsts’. Along the way, debates and full-on arguments might rage in these pages, and we can run the risk of being sued for trying to report what is going on out there, for the benefit of those who aren’t plugged in to the grapevine.

At the other extreme, I could just throw the contents of my email inbox up in the air and see where everything lands. That’s how easy it is to put a magazine together these days. But I think you’d notice.

In my experience, Glass Age readers are very clued-up, and I am often inspired by the drive and ideas of the people I meet in this business. Hopefully you notice stories and photographs that you won’t see anywhere else, because they are ours, and we have done the leg-work to get them. Information is current, and the whole publication is arranged with some idea of newsworthiness. That’s why you make the effort to subscribe.

I am often inspired by the drive and ideas of the people I meet in this business

This month, we have brace of expansion and streamlining stories concerning some of the biggest companies in the UK window market. Coldseal appears to have come to a sticky end, but you never know, do you? The argument about proposed Window Energy Ratings and their implications for hard coat and soft coat low-E continues. Perhaps we can see an agreement in time for Christmas? Well, we can always hope.

Source

Glass Age

Postscript

Tel. 020 7560 4247. dbentham@cmpinformation.com