Volume 34, Number 8, August 1999

Features

• Fourth Annual Guide to Computers and Software - This special section includes our software guide.
• Automate and Simplify - Find out how your company may benefit by using computers to simplify day-to-day operations.
• Gloom or Doom - While it is unknown what havoc the millennium bug will wreck on January 1, there are steps glass companies can take to prepare for the crisis.
• Is the Coast Clear? - While industry debate continues over the best type of hurricane-resistant glazing to use, many agree that the glass needs to remain in the frame.
• The New Hardware Horizon - David Schwartz outlines the products that will shape tomorrow's hardware industry and advises glass dealers to expand their horizons.
• Glass Processing Days Offers Enlightenment - This year's biannual conference in Tampere, Finland, offered challenges, peer interaction and enlightenment for more than800 attendees.
• Glass Expo Midwest '99 Preview - Details about the expo, seminars and social events.

USGOpenings

• Fenestration Focus - Clark Halladay's bimonthly column advises companies how to foster employee growth.

USGAuto

• Feature - Lobbying Your Legislature - How the Minnesota Glass Association fought proposed legislation and won.
• AG Conference Floats into Palm Beach - The NGA will hold its annual Auto Glass Conference in Palm Beach, FL, this September. The event includes installation demonstrations, seminars and an Expo.
• USGAuto News
• USGAuto Products
• USGAuto People

Departments

• Issue at Hand, "Industry Evolution," by Debra Levy
• Industry News, Various Reports
• Machinery - Handling & Processing
• New Products
• Resource Library
• People
• The Business, "Glass-Word Puzzle", by Lyle Hill

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