PPG loses bid for World Trade Center

[HopeHoops]

Source: The Sentinel

A local manufacturing plant won’t have its glass on the new One World Trade Center building after all.

Instead, the glass will be manufactured in China.

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“No matter which way you slice it, it is going to be manufactured in China,” Maurer said. “We’re shocked this would be awarded to a company outside of the United States.”

He said PPG put hundreds of thousands of dollars into the project — including upgrades to the South Middleton Township plant — and had worked with the Port Authority, the architect and others to develop the glass for the project.

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Read more: http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2009/04/02/news/local/doc49d4c130587f0460006871.txt

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The story also ran in The Patriot-News, but I couldn't find an on-line link (read it in print this morning). The language was different and actually included a statement by the NY Port Authority spokesman that they had no control over who got the contract.

This has me wondering - are they going to build it with crappy low-bid steel from China too?

This is just so wrong.