​Growth of market

Building construction activity is on a steady rise with the development boom taking place throughout the country. FOSG would review the growth of the glass market in India so as to provide resourceful information and to keep the industry abreast with the latest trends and demands.

Common Industry Establishment

Co-operation in defining industry standards has played a critical role in underpinning the technical development of the glass industry for several decades. Recent years, however, have witnessed both expansions of activities and extensions of co-operation in adopting standard practices and common components. This recent deepening of technological cooperation is now playing a critical role in creating new products and practices in the “New Economy.”

Common quality acceptance norms

The FOSG on a continual basis, sets policies for the quality level for glass manufacturing so as to meet the satisfactory process average. This ensures that quality outputs are generally standardised in the industry. This helps keep procedures and processes in check.

Inventory sharing protocols

An increasing number of manufacturers have started to pursue a strategy that promotes inventory sharing among the dealers in their distribution network. Each independent dealer is given the flexibility to share his inventory. We model inventory sharing as a multiple demand classes problem in which each dealer faces his own customer demand with high priority, and inventory-sharing requests from other dealers with low priority.

Capacity sharing protocols between members

An important property of the process is that it avoids the event where an individual member would experience downtime for their processes by collaborating with other members to achieve similar output targets in the same capacity. This helps to balance productivity and cut off valuable machinery downtime.

Trained Manpower

From time to time, the members are always on the lookout and training of skilled manpower for the architectural glass industry where specialisation is of high value. This also asserts a confidence in the general market where the right manpower is readily available to any of the FOSG members.

Input Output norms

Standardisation is the key to the industry where raw materials and output are concerned. By setting down a consolidated view of expectations and guidelines, the FOSG enforces the direction to how quality and norms are adhered to, right from the raw material stage to the final output, minimising waste in the process.

Educate the market

With architectural glass playing a major role in the industry, it is necessary to educate the general market and the infrastructural decision makers on the new trends and advantages of embracing architectural glass as a construction material. This effort can well be seen in the exhibitions and trade fairs that are held every year to promote the industry.

Awareness about the market

The FOSG has the responsibility of adhering to ground breaking and new product trends from time to time. With new concepts in this ever-evolving industry, it is important to promote this awareness, both to the industry and the market as a whole on new ideas and evolving techniques.

Safety

Safety plays an important feature in the glass industry, since glass has to provide protection in many facets. There are two aspects to this, safety at the workplace and safety requirements that glass should pass through for use in the market. An immense amount of time and effort is spent on ensuring that protectional measures are adhered to, both on and off the facility/production/processing location.