Client News: Appleton Coated wins Gold Ink Awards

The awards ceremony and Hall of Fame Banquet will be held in Chicago on Sept. 29 in conjunction with GRAPH EXPO, and featured in Printing Impressions magazine.

Client News: Rockfon Island’s frameless ceiling products deliver acoustical performance, easy installation

“Innovative and aesthetically pleasing, these frameless acoustic islands provide an alternative acoustic solution for rooms where suspended ceilings are not suitable. They can be used as part of a retrofit or to create a cloud-like design feature.”

Client News: Linetec shares a new white paper on antimicrobial protection infused coatings for public building applications

“Now, antimicrobial protection can be specified for high-touch, architectural metal products’ exterior and interior surfaces, such as hand rails, doors, windows, curtainwall, entrances, light shelves, panels and column covers.”

Client News: Valspar’s Fluropon® exterior coatings offer field-proven, high-performance for metal roofing, panels and more

70% PVDF coatings available in a breadth of colors and formulations, including solar reflective

Association News: AAMA Fall Conference registration deadline approaching

Michael Hodgson, ConSol founder, has more than three decades’ worth of experience in making new and existing buildings more energy efficient. His presentation, “California Regulatory Proceedings Impacting the Nation,” will be given Tues., Sept. 16. Hodgson will discuss how California’s leading edge energy policy is driving the market to time-of-use energy pricing, incentivizing ways to reduce peak load and detailing how the policy impacts energy choices in buildings.

Client News: Knutson Construction shares “Top 10 Considerations in Healthcare Renovation”

“Having led over 150 healthcare construction projects for over 20 different organizations in the last 15 years, Knutson is well-versed in the joint commission standards, and literally wrote the book on interim life safety measures and infection control.”

Association News: AAMA releases new voluntary specification for third-party finishes applied to PVC exterior profile

Standards existed for extruders or window manufacturers when working with the paint process, but there was no AAMA standard for in-process quality control when painting was being done at outside contractors.

Association News: AAMA releases report on “Overview of Design Wind Load Determination for Fenestration Systems”

This report discusses the determination of design wind loads on curtain walls and other building cladding systems. The document originally was published in 1985, when Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (BLWT) testing was a relatively new field, and limited information was available on its methods and uses.

Client News: Tubelite adds 34000 Series storefront to ForceFront Storm hurricane resistant products

ForceFront medium stile entrance doors also were tested with 34000 Series storefront to provide a complete impact-resistant system.

Client News: Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs presents award to Wausau

“Wausau is extremely proud to receive this recognition. As an employer we are committed to hiring our nation’s heroes and honored to work with WDVA on this important effort.”