Category Archives: FenCon18

Two one-hour sessions are designed quite simply to provide excellent education on the North American Fenestration Standards (NAFS)regulations and provide your company with some better ideas, steps, processes – of how to get on side with less headache and confusion and cost. And you get an opportunity to at least indirectly, help improve the regulations by giving committee members input – not […]

February 8th, 2018 by DWM Magazine Fenestration Manitoba will present FenCon18 February 28-March 2 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Last year’s first-ever FenCon drew about 150 people, and event chair Al Dueck of Duxton Windows and Doors says this year’s gathering could be bigger.

Written by Al Dueck, President, DUXTON Windows & Doors There seem to be a LOT of people in Canada who are very frustrated by the state of the industry as it relates the NAFS regulation dilemma – or whatever you want to call it.  In a nutshell, a very important element of the Canadian window […]

Written by Al Dueck, FenCon18 Conference Chair  The fenestration manufacturing industry – including suppliers – come in many different sizes and “shapes” and yet all have the potential to benefit from the investments in technology. Klaes – a Rosenheim, Germany based company with 200 employees in 27 countries – has grown from start up to […]

Written by Denis Perron, AdFast We must not let our Canadian companies lag behind the integration of connectivity technologies. Those who have implemented the Industry 4.0 concept have increased their productivity by 60%, reduced their operating costs by 50% and improved the overall quality of their products by 42%. The integration of 4.0 will allow […]

Written by Al Dueck, FenCon18 Conference Chair The manufacturing world is changing very rapidly at this point in time.  We have seen it go “global global” but more recently we see and hear a lot more about using technology to become more effective and more efficient.  FenCon18 has been successful in not only attracting some […]

Written by Al Dueck, FenCon18 Conference ChairJan. 22, 2018 –  A conference ideally offers opportunities to develop a deeper understanding of developments that can positively impact your business and hopefully implement those changes at the right time. Today, we’re all hearing a LOT of chatter about Industry 4.0 and various ideas built around automation – […]

Written by Al Dueck, FenCon18 Conference Chair www.FenCon18.com, a follow-up to the initial window and door manufacturing conference in 2017, brings even more cutting edge information and suppliers to fenestration professionals.  Organizers are building on the preferred features of 2017 with a day packed full of seminars. The conference date has been moved to a Thursday with […]