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GLASS FOR EUROPE

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION SHOULD ENCOURAGE MEMBER

STATES TO APPLY THE ENERGY BALANCE FOR WINDOWS

The revised Energy Performance of As windows and glazed areas are between outdated methodologies and
Building has gotten to the heart of the essential to the overall energy per- real life.
implementation process and the Eu- formance of buildings, ensuring a Talking about windows, too often,
ropean Commission is already draft- proper assessment of their energy national cost-optimal calculations
ing its guidelines to instruct Member performance to set the minimum assess the energy performance of
States about the innovations included performance requirements is crucial glazed areas only considering the in-
in the new text. It is against this to incentive market actors to deliver sulation properties while it is evident
background that Glass for Europe energy savings. While it seems that that windows also allow heat gains
has released a position paper on the energy consumption in buildings that reduces heating needs in winter
benefits of energy balance approach keeps on growing, questions arise time. As illustrated in the paper, by
calls on the Commission to encour- about the methodologies applied so applying the energy balance approach
age Member States to improve the far to evaluate the energy perfor- for both heating and cooling needs,
national methodologies and properly mance of buildings and their compo- Member States will be able to appro-
assess the energy performance of nents. It is thus high time to apply the priately evaluate the energy perfor-
windows. energy balance of windows to fill gaps mance of windows.

GLASTON EFCO
VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF

INVESTOR RELATIONS, SALES AND MARKETING NAMED

COMMUNICATIONS AND EFCO Corp. promoted John Bendt to senior vice president
of sales and marketing. He will report directly to John Klein,
MARKETING APPOINTED president, EFCO Corp.
“John brings tremendous experience and industry knowledge
Joséphine Mickwitz has been appointed Glaston Corpo- to his new role,” says Klein. “He joined Apogee in 2002 and
ration’s Vice President, Investor Relations, Communica- has held several leadership roles across the organization. In
tions and Marketing and member of Glaston’s Extended his new role, John will be responsible for leading and devel-
Management Group. Joséphine Mickwitz will report to oping EFCO’s sales and marketing team, driving profitable
Arto Metsänen. revenue growth, and serving as a key contributor to the com-
“As Glaston takes its next leap on the journey from pany’s marketing and business strategy.”
machine manufacturer to leading service provider within Most recently Bendt served as vice president, building retrofit
the glass processing business we have to strengthen our strategy, where he led the development of Apogee’s renova-
resources within communications, IR and marketing. I’m tion initiative, growing it to 40 million USD in orders in fiscal
happy to welcome Joséphine Mickwitz to Glaston. She has year 2018. Previously, he worked as vice president, sales and
extensive know how from all areas of investor relations and marketing at Wausau Window and Wall Systems from 2008
communications. I’m sure that she is the right person to to 2012, and he was vice president of service and special pro-
develop our communications, increase awareness about jects for Harmon Inc. from 2002 to 2008. EFCO Corpora-
Glaston and build a broader dialogue with the financial tion is part of Apogee Enterprises, Inc. Apogee is a growing,
community”, says Arto Metsänen. profitable company with annual revenues approaching 1.5 bil-
Joséphine Mickwitz joins Glaston from the position as lion USD. It provides distinctive metal and glass solutions for
Head of IR and Communications at Tokmanni Group enclosing commercial buildings, and glass and acrylic solu-
Corporation. Prior to that she served in communications, tions for picture framing and display applications. Companies
investor relations and HR leadership roles at Detection in the Apogee family are Alumicor, EFCO, Harmon, Linetec,
Technology ltd, Miltton Oy and Wärtsilä Corporation. Sotawall, Tru Vue, Tubelite, Viracon and Wausau.

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