![]() ![]() “I think a lot of people are afraid of the idea of working with glass,” Willett said. The perception that working with glass is a danger makes it a challenge to find workers, said Scott Willett, the second-generation owner of Twin Pane The Glass Source, in Yaphank, a fabricator. by USGlass, founded in 1993 Lynbrook Glass & Architectural Metals Corp., also in Hauppauge, a high-rise contract glazier and distributor founded in 1931 Quality Enclosures Inc., a Central Islip-based fabricator of tempered glass shower doors that started in 1963 and Glass America USA Inc., a West Babylon-based fabricator and distributor of architectural glass to the Northeast market founded in 1996.Īrchitectural glass comes in one of three basic types: monolithic, laminated or insulated. Other significant companies by size, age or technology, according to Levy, Buonavita and other industry experts, include Champion Metal & Glass Inc., a contract glazier in Hauppauge that has been ranked among the top 50 glaziers in the U.S. ![]() Floral Glass, a 49-year-old family owned business, was Long Island’s largest glass fabricator before it was bought by Oldcastle in 2004. Industry experts said Long Island’s largest glass firm is Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope of Hauppauge, which is owned by Irish construction materials giant CRH plc, whose sales last year were 23.64 billion euros, or about $26.8 billion at current exchange rates. It grew as developers began building industrial and office properties here in the ’60s and into the ’70s. The local industry got its start in the late 1940s as glass shops were founded or relocated from the city to service the growing residential real estate sector, Levy said. It is a $42 billion industry in the United States, according to USGlass. Architectural glass - defined as any glass made by melting sand into ribbons of raw glass that float on top of molten tin in large manufacturing tanks - is used as an exterior or interior building material.
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