WTC Facade Glass Will Be Made in China
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| Fri, 04-03-2009 - 12:45pm |
WTC Facade Glass Will Be Made in Red China
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/04/wtc_facade_glas.php
At least part of 1 World Trade Center -- formerly known as the Freedom Tower -- will be made by our friends in Communist China. According to the Sentinel, PPG of Pittsburgh was hoping to make facade glass for the new tower. But Solera Construction/DCM Erectors of New York instead gave the sub-contract for the glass to the China Beijing company (or cadre or whatever they call it), using PPG's licensed technology. A PPG spokesman said he was "shocked this would be awarded to a company outside of the United States"; the Port Authority's spokesman shrugged, "We accepted the lowest responsible bidder."
On the bright side, by the time this communist Trade Center is built, we'll all be dead, either of a terrorist attack or old age. Weep, eagle, weep!
PPG loses bid for World Trade Center
Full article...
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2009/04/02/news/local/doc49d4c130587f0460006871.txt
A local manufacturing plant won’t have its glass on the new One World Trade Center building after all.
Instead, the glass will be manufactured in China.
PPG Industries, based in Pittsburgh, had submitted a bid to be a subcontractor to produce some of the facade glass for the main building of the new complex in Lower Manhattan, previously dubbed the Freedom Tower..
“We did bid on providing some highly aesthetic glass for the first 20 floors for the facade section of the tower,†said PPG spokesman Jack Maurer.
But the contractor PPG hoped to work with failed to win the contract with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Instead, the contract was awarded to Solera Construction/DCM Erectors of New York.
“We accepted the lowest responsible bidder,†explained Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority.
However, Solera/DCM hired a subcontractor, Zetian Systems of Las Vegas, which in turn hired China Beijing Glass to produce the patented glass, which it will produce under the PPG license.
“They’re licensed to use our technology,†Maurer said.
He said the “Starphire†glass is patented and Beijing Glass is a licensee of the PPG technology.



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Obama is on course to more than double the Bush era deficits. If you hated the Bush for his deficits, get ready to hate Obama twice as much as Bush. :)
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I think there could be a way around the protectionist issue if one gave some thought of how to keep the new WTC an American symbol while still honouring ones trade agreements.
In lieu of providing materials for that particular project, agreements to purchase materials for other upcoming projects could be negotiated.
Also, I'm wondering....Is there something special or technologically unique about this glass being provided? I'm just thinking about this because I saw a fascinating special about the remarkably innovative materials they were using when constructing some of the Olympic venues in Bejing (particularly the Aquatics Center).
Also, this building and its technology wasn't an entirely Chinese innovation either....There were many other nationalities working on it together (if I recall, a lot of British engineers/architects etc...)
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_clinton_administration_was_the_federal.html
And thanks to George Bush, Obama inherited a HUGE MESS!!
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"Only when Republicans run Congress have we had a surplus in modern times.'
It Was Reagan, Not Congress
Some say Reagan had nothing to do with the debt's U turn
They say it was Congressional Democrats. Not true. Had things worked out just as Reagan proposed and predicted, the debt still would have gone up 85% as much. But even this is deceptive. The reason his predicted savings did not materialize was not Congress. The reason was that he predicted much more economic growth from supply-side magic than actually happened. So he counted on taxes that were never collected to help his budgets. In fact a study by the House found that Reagan asked for $29.4 billion more in spending than Congress passed. More......
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Don't forget Republicans were in charge of Congress for 6 out of the 8 years of Bush's Presidency.
The federal budget was balanced when Newt was speaker. Perhaps you were too young to recall the complaints of the press when our federal government was shut down in a budget dispute.
President Clinton wanted to continue to spend, Republicans wanted to run a surplus. Eventually Republicans got their way.
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