Newsletter 1-2012

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We were not far off when last autumn we predicted a difficult winter for the world of glass and windows, due to the reduced growth rate of businesses all over the world. Predictions were for a very low growth rate until spring 2012 if not outright recession. Everything came to be as predicted, pushing the major central banks in the macro economic zones to inject a great deal of liquidity into the system, with all of the risks involved over the medium-long term, just to get supply and demand started up again. No one today can with any certainty foresee if these exceptional financial measures will have the power to bring the economy back to normal (the optimistic view of those who feel that this last period was just a temporary crisis within a global trend of growth and development), or will only put off for a few years the final countdown for a world that has progressively detached itself from the real economy, thereby falling into a downward spiral of self referential and potentially destructive financial parameters. Fenzi is an important industrial concern, strategically positioned in every continent, a champion of the old economy, of the manufacturing industry and the generation of real value added. Therefore, we are worried when we see macroeconomic financial measures that go well beyond traditional strategies of healthy economic management. But we are equally and incurably optimists in believing that world demand will start up again soon in every major geographic area of the world. As always, we will be in the front lines ready to supply the markets with ever more innovative and performing products. This is not only a prediction for the near future but also a wish of good tidings for all of our trading partners.

2012. IT'S ALL UPHILL FROM HERE, SO WE'D BETTER START MOVING

Since both Vitrum 2011 and the year just past with its ominous final quarter are behind us, it is worthwhile to set our sights further ahead, to try to understand what prospects 2012 will offer us. Let's begin by recalling that 2011 was a special year for the Fenzi Group, given that it celebrated its seventieth birthday. This quite long period enabled the achievement of results of such significance as to strengthen a position of world leadership in every product sector that the company works in: paints for mirrors, sealants and decorative paints...

GAS LEAKAGE IN INSULATING GLASS UNIT: POLYSULFIDE AND SILICONE

Typically it is assumed by architects, designers and builders that the primary seal prevents leakage and the secondary seal holds the glass lites together, however among manufacturers it is understood that a perfect primary seal is not always feasible to attain therefore properties of the secondary seal come in to consideration at all times. Common application defects in the primary seal are complete gaps in the PIB (image 2.2), uneven application...

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF HOTVER 2000 IN GREAT BRITAIN CONTINUES

The last few months have seen notable sales growth on the British market for Hotver 2000, the one component hot melt sealant. It is surely the insulating glass sealant with the highest increase in market share in 2011. It has always been appreciated for its mechanical properties and for how easy and fast it is to use. It has become the sealant of choice for British high quality insulating window manufacturers. Its excellent physical-chemical properties enable the entire system to achieve top performance, especially when used with non-metallic flexible spacers. Indeed, Hotver 2000...

NEW INTRODUCTIONS IN THE CHROMATECH ULTRA LINE

Since its very launch in 2009, Chromatech Ultra, the first two-component spacer developed by Rolltech has been running at top speed toward success. Its unique features have indeed been very well received by the market, because it has been perfectly capable of combining the properties of stainless steel with those of plastic: the result is a notable...

Flash News 1 2012

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