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Last year’s float glass update told a story of relative stability for the industry. This year’s report, of course, finds a different, uncertain future by the time it is published, the world will have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic for roughly a year.
Like the rest of the glass industry, float glass manufacturers across the world faced economic and manufacturing reversals in early 2020 as the pandemic led to partial or complete shutdowns.
“The primary challenges for us have been flexibility. COVID-19 created a lot of upheaval in terms of customer demands and changing delivery schedules, so adapting to those demands on the fly was probably the greatest challenge we faced as a result of the pandemic,” says Nathan McKenna, director of marketing and innovation for Vitro Architectural Glass.