The National Windshield Repair Association (NWRA) held a variety of committee meetings and a meeting of its board of directors in Orlando, Fla., last month.

NWRA’s two American National Standards Institute (ANSI) committees, the Repair of Laminated Auto Glass Standard™ (ROLAGS) Committee and its Break Identification Standard (BIS) Committee, met. ROLAGS™ members reviewed that Standard with an eye toward possible changes. The BIS committee reviewed comments to its initial draft release of the Standard.

“Comments are always helpful,” said BIS committee chair Keith Beveridge of Novus Glass in Saint Paul, Minn. “They help make a stronger final work product.”

The draft Standard will be revised and then re-released for final public comment before being submitted to ANSI, which the committee expects will be done before the end of this year.

The NWRA board of directors also met and devoted a large chunk of its meeting agenda to two new initiatives: its soon-to-debut “NWRA Trusted Tech” program and a new national warranty initiative.

“We are very excited to get both these programs going,” said NWRA president Jeff Reddell of Pace Glass in Texarkana, Texas. “They will offer great benefit not only to the NWRA membership but to the industry and consumers we serve.”