News from the industry

There has been much publicity lately about cheap, imported building products, including glass. In particular, glass that seems to explode for no apparent reason. Throughout the media coverage the reason given for such explosions was poor quality, imported glass products. Many examples portrayed however, were found to have been caused by installation issues rather than the 'cheap imports' stigma associated with the products. Nevertheless, a senate inquiry in to non-conforming building products has been announced.

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