National Windshield Repair Division (NWRD) of the Auto Glass Safety Council offers the leading edge of timely information and gives you a strong influence in the industry. Your membership not only couples you with the dynamic leaders of the windshield repair industry, but adds your voice to the destiny of the windshield repair industry.

To receive information about joining our association, click here, and email us your name, business name, mailing address and phone number. We will send you a copy of the NWRD Newsletter, Auto Glass Repair & Replacement (AGRR) magazine and some samples of our marketing aids.

A Brief History

From the founding of windshield repair in the early 1970s until the first publication of Windshield Repair magazine in 1994 there was no organized communication or representation effort dedicated to the windshield repair community other than through organizations or publications that were designed to respond to the interests of the auto glass replacement community. By the 1990s, the exploding growth and specialized needs of the windshield repair industry led a group of eight dedicated windshield repairers to meet in Tucson, Ariz. in September 1994, and founded the NWRD.

The mission of the NWRD was to:

• Promote and develop the legitimacy of windshield repair as the first option for glass;
• Provide and promote best practices for those engaged in windshield repair;
• Provide the public with benefits of repair;
• Provide education, resources and information about repair;
• Develop and promote qualified, ethical repair practices; and
• Serve as an advocate for the windshield repair industry before government and other regulatory groups.

Over the years the NWRD developed several marketing aids including Windshield Savers and a CD about windshield repair. We participate in Auto Glass Week™ every year, which provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, presentation of industry information, educational seminars and social interaction for members and invited guests.

The NWRD has developed a national certification program for windshield repair technicians.

The NWRD is recognized nationally and worldwide as a professional source of reliable information on the windshield repair industry. Interested parties including commercial, government and trade organizations have come to the NWRD for information and consultation. NWRD is the only entity devoted solely to the windshield repair industry.