With a final attendance just shy of 9,000 and more than 430 exhibiting companies, GlassBuild America 2016 organisers, exhibitors and visitors have declared the event a winner.
Attendees and exhibitors from 73 countries were treated to three days of product displays in four large halls at the Las Vegas Convention Center, along with peer-to-peer networking and takeaway education. Here’s what attendees and exhibitors had to say about the event:
“We had such an amazing time at GlassBuild this year. We can’t wait to get back and share what we’ve learned with our staff.”
-Dustin Anderson, Anderson Glass, LLC, Waco, TX
“This show has blown us away. We were so engaged with so many people, especially day one, that others were willing to sit and wait to talk to us about our product. The show has given us new momentum as a company.”
-Craig Maierhofer, Alpen High Performance Products, Exhibitor
“We booked two new customers in the first hour. The window fabricator companies are truly looking to buy. This is a good show for that purpose.”
-Michael White, Haffner North America, Exhibitor
“It was great. All of the vendors were friendly and informative.”
-Francisco Rodriguez, Sun Pacific Glazing, Spring Valley, CA
“We’ve gotten more leads in the first day here at GlassBuild than all other shows this year combined.”
-Terry Wiley, GPI Millworks, Exhibitor
“The show was very good. I met a lot of suppliers.”
-Juan Carlos Santillan, Vidrialum, Riobamba, Ecuador
“We have not had a better show experience in at least 10 years. Capitalization is always the last to make a comeback. The traffic at this show is evidence that the market has come back, and companies have really responded with investments in new capital equipment.”
-Bill Briese, GED Integrated Solutions, Exhibitor
This is my first time at GlassBuild and I’ve been impressed—happy to be here.”
-Mark Sweeting, Emerald Coast Glass, Pensacola, FL
“We’ve been [exhibiting at] the show for 30 years. This has been the best. It was the quality of the attendees. We have four salespeople here and we each got 6-7 quality leads.”
-Larry Morse, Morse Industries, Inc., Exhibitor
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much foot traffic in any of the shows we’ve done across the country, so we’ll be back next year.”
-Tony Kasprzak, KL Megla, Exhibitor
“We had an awesome time at GlassBuild. We met with amazing people and purchased state of the art Italian machinery.”
-Michael High and John Serino, Original Frameless Shower Doors, Coral Springs, FL