Fenestration Canada wants you EDITORIAL GLASS CANADA March 2023 Volume 35 • Number 1 Annex Business Media P.O. Box 530, Simcoe, Ontario N3Y 4N5 READER SERVICE Print and digital subscription inquiries or changes, please contact Angelita Potal, Customer Service Rep. Tel: 416.510.5113 Fax: 416.510.6875 Email: apotal@annexbusinessmedia.com Mail: 111 Gordon Baker Rd., Suite 400, Toronto, ON M2H 3R1 EDITOR | Patrick FLANNERY pflannery@annexbusinessmedia.com 226.931.0545 PUBLISHER | Danielle LABRIE dlabrie@annexbusinessmedia.com 519.429.5187 BRAND SALES MANAGER | Leslie OSBORNE losborne@annexbusinessmedia.com 647.280.5885 ACCOUNT COORDINATOR | Barb COMER bcomer@annexbusinessmedia.com 519.429.5171 AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER | Shawn ARUL sarul@annexbusinessmedia.com 416.510.5181 MEDIA DESIGNER | Alison KEBA PRESIDENT/COO | Scott JAMIESON sjamieson@annexbusinessmedia.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada -1 Year $37.00 (plus tax) U.S.A. -1 Year $85.00 (in CDN dollars) Publication Mail Agreement #40065710 Printed in Canada ISSN 0843-7041 Occasionally, Glass Canada will mail information on behalf of industry-related groups whose products and services we believe may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive this information, please contact our circulation department in any of the four ways listed above. Annex Privacy Officer privacy@annexbusinessmedia.com Tel: 800-668-2374 No part of the editorial content of this publication may be reprinted without the publisher’s written permis-sion. ©2023 Annex Business Media. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the editor or the publisher. No liability is assumed for errors or omissions. All advertising is subject to the publisher’s approval. Such approval does not imply any en-dorsement of the products or services advertised. Publisher reserves the right to refuse advertising that does not meet the standards of the publication. We welcome FenCan’s efforts to reach out to the architectural glass sector. We’re welcoming some new voices into Glass Canada this year, as you’ll see in the pages ahead. Fenestration Canada has long been Canada’s national organiza-tion for the residential window and door industry, dating back to its origins as the Canadian Window and Door Association. It’s so venerable that it was originally managed by the Canada Wood Council (hi there, Richard Lipman), harking back to an era where most of our home windows were wood framed. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then and the association became self-governing about 10 years ago and changed its name to what it is today. Now the association is evolving again in response to fundamental shifts in its members’ markets. Specifi-cally, it’s adding an architectural glass division and hoping to attract membership from among you, the readers of this magazine, who focus on institutional, com-mercial and industrial projects, high-rise residential and custom glazing. You may also notice that Fenestration Manitoba is now appearing on our Canada’s Glass As-NEXT ISSUE sociations page. That’s because I’m persuaded that they • Smart glass are serving the commercial industry in their region along with the residential market. • BEC report More and more residential fabricators are getting • Software involved in larger multi-unit builds that require commer-cial standards and approaches. Luxury custom homes are having curtainwall installed. Advances in thermal break-ing are bringing aluminum back as a framing material on single family homes. Relaxation of flammability rules is bringing vinyl in as a potential on high-rise builds. A lot of Fenestration Canada’s members, more perhaps than ever before, would benefit from services and technical information aimed at the architectural glass sector. Fenestration Canada was never explicitly only for residential vinyl fabricators – it just kind of panned out that way, probably as a result of the association’s origins. FenCan leaders have expressed for a long time that they’d like to have more involvement from the commercial sector. Now, the association has put some real meat into its efforts to attract you. Rich Porayko, who will be familiar to all regular readers, has been brought on board as its director of business development for the commercial division. Jeff Makimoto, formerly of TAGG Industries, is the new technical advisor for ICI sectors. These are hires, and good ones, that demonstrate FenCan’s determination to serve the architectural glass side. You’ll find all the details in Fenestration Canada’s inaugural column on page 11. I’m excited to welcome them into the fold as an association partner along with the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance and all our regional groups. • www.glasscanadamag.com @GlassCanadaMag 4 March 2023 | GLASS CANADA
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