USGlass Magazine

3 days ago | usglassmag.com | Drew Vass

In March of this year, under the direction of a new presidential administration, the United States raised tariffs on aluminum from 10% to 25%, while maintaining a 25% rate on steel, two key materials for doors and windows. Other duties have proven volatile amid the negotiations of a trade war, but those implemented on aluminum and steel apply universally and remain intact. That leaves what Matthew Price sees as a window of opportunity for an age-old industrial material: hemp.

1 week ago | usglassmag.com | Joshua Huff

A Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison was beginning an apprenticeship at the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) Workers Local 100 chapter in Prince George’s County, Maryland, at the time of his arrest. His arrest and deportation come as the construction industry, which has long relied on immigrant workers, faces multiple labor headwinds exacerbated by the White House’s anti-immigration policy.

1 week ago | usglassmag.com | Joshua Huff

Glass and glass product manufacturing prices remained unchanged in March, ending a two-month run of rising prices for the commodity. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed the data in its monthly Producer Price Index (PPI) on Friday. The PPI measures the prices of goods and services at the wholesale level in the U.S., from raw materials to finished products.

1 week ago | usglassmag.com | Joshua Huff

A glass company was named in a lawsuit filed by two parents charged in the death of their 3-year-old son after he fell out of a window and plunged nine stories from the Independence Towers near Kansas City. According to court documents, the child fell to his death after opening the window in his bedroom on the morning of July 29, 2024.

2 weeks ago | usglassmag.com | Joshua Huff

No one expected six students and employees at Nashville’s The Covenant School to die before noon on March 27, 2023. Three nine-year-olds and three adults were shot and killed by a gunman who was armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and sidearms. The attacker slipped into the school after shooting through two sets of glass doors and committed what would become Tennessee’s deadliest school shooting.