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Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, December 2020 Issue I’ve had the privilege of writing my You Bet Your Glass column for over a decade now and I’ve always considered it a great honour to be allowed to bring you my views on our industry. It has been a responsibility I have not taken lightly. I …

Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, October 2020 Issue In looking back, I’ve spent the better part of a lifetime in the glass and architectural metal industry. I was exposed to it at a very early age since my father, Fred Fulton, was one of the pioneers in the insulating glass industry in Canada and would …

Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, August 2020 Issue To the casual observer, a window is just something you look through to see outside and there’s not a lot of thought given to it beyond that. For people involved in the application and installation of fenestration products however, there are a mind boggling number of intricate …

Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, June 2020 Issue For the past number of months it seems we’ve done nothing but lived and breathed the new reality of life, the COVID-19 reality. We’re probably in the midst of what will likely be the most historically significant event of our lifetimes. Future generations will be affected and …

As you are likely aware, the OGMA has been an active participant in the Prompt Payment Ontario (PPO) initiative for the past six years, where forty or so trade-related associations banded together to lobby for improvements in the laws, liens, payment terms, and arbitration process related to construction contracts. As a result, the legislation went …

Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, April 2020 Issue Unlike Mr. Trump, I like to read.  I find myself checking the news feeds on my phone whenever there’s a break in the action and I must read at least a dozen news columns a day on a range of topics I’m interested in: Trudeau, all the …

Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, February 2020 Issue I realize that accounting practices and pension management are not the spellbinding, on the edge of your seat topics you’re accustomed to reading in You Bet Your Glass, but there is a big unsettling bubble that has been building for years, is now on the verge of …

Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, December 2019 Issue The next major advancement in glazing will soon be coming as the result of an invention by Sir James Dewar in the early 1890’s. The Scottish scientist Dewar you see needed to find a way to keep his laboratory chemicals cold and came up with the idea …

Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, October 2019 Issue In February 2019, the Ontario Glass & Metal Association and the Toronto chapter of Construction Specifications Canada entered into a Memorandum of Understanding between the two parties for the purpose of enhancing mutual awareness, co-operation, and the promotion of the organizations’ events and initiatives. The associations share …

by Frank Fulton Originally published in Glass Canada Magazine, August 2019 Issue In the last edition we found that starting benchmark values used by glass manufacturers to calculate energy surcharges were far lower than what the actual costs were at the beginning of the surcharge program in 2002, meaning that surcharges can be vastly overstated …