Glen-Gery was recently recognized at Architectural Record’s annual Advertising Excellence Awards breakfast in Orlando, Fla., as part of the 2017 AIA Convention. Each year, a jury of leading architects carefully reviews and rates ads in the building and design marketplace, along with the companies and agencies that produce them.
This weekly roundup highlights the ceramic, glass, refractories, brick and related news stories that garnered the most attention during the previous week.
The award-winning collaborative project involved real-time, in-furnace thermal imaging using AMETEK Land’s near infrared borescope (NIR-B) to optimize furnace operations at Encirc’s Elton site in Cheshire, UK.
AMETEK Land, in collaboration with Simpson Combustion and Energy and glass producer Encirc, recently won the Innovative Solution category at the annual Glass Focus Awards, held by industry body British Glass.
Ceradyne reportedly distinguished itself by finding innovative ways to create cost efficiencies and improve quality assurance for producing ceramic missile radome material in the Clarkston, Ga., facility.
Raytheon has recognized Ceradyne, Inc., a 3M company, with an EPIC Supplier Excellence Award for its outstanding performance, innovation and collaboration on U.S. Department of Defense projects.
The Inamori Foundation has announced three laureates of the 2017 Kyoto Prize for their contributions in the fields of electronics, biological sciences and music.
AVX Corp. recently received a 2016 Rockwell Collins Platinum Premier Award, which honors top-performing suppliers for having maintained the highest levels of quality, delivery, and business alignment.
Acme Brick recently won the 2016 Silver “Addy” award from the American Advertising Federation’s 10th District for a television commercial starring Troy Aikman.
We’ve all heard the old adage that “the customer is king.” To a certain extent, I subscribe to that concept. We certainly need to make sure that we’re meeting our customers’ needs and keeping them happy.
No industry can thrive without a strong support base of responsive, quality suppliers. We sought to celebrate suppliers to the ceramic and related industries with our 2017 Ceramic Industry Supplier of the Year Award, and we were thrilled to receive many enthusiastic nominations.