Local Utah business B.T. Pearson Tires & Service has just bought into the Techna Glass franchise, adding auto glass repair and replacement to the list of services it provides to Utah consumers. The business, which is locally owned as well as operated by Tom Hooker and Brad Pollman, already offers a variety of services that includes body service on vehicles, alignments, automotive air conditioning repair, and the like. The acquisition of a Techna Glass franchise, then, rounds out the business’s offerings quite nicely.
According to the owners of the Utah auto business, they had been considering adding auto glass repair and replacement to their repertoire for some time already, and had only begun to truly set plans in motion some months ago. The result was an approval from Techna Glass for the two to open a franchise for it and combine that with their already existing vehicle repair and maintenance services in hopes of growing their venture.
Although Techna Glass is already quite well known now, due to it having a fair distribution of shops across the US, the company is actually not an old one, strictly speaking. The first Techna Glass shop, for instance, opened only a decade ago. Still, this fact is not an arraignment against the shop or brand’s credibility: it must be remembered, after all, that auto glass repair and replacement is in itself a new industry, when compared to the history of automobile services on the whole. Auto glass repair, in particular, is still fairly young as vehicle services or maintenance functions go.
This has to do with the development of the technology itself, of course. Auto glass repair only started when the possibility of injecting a resin capable of mimicking the clarity, strength, and appearance of automotive glass was realised, and it took a while for other machines to start entering the picture. Nowadays, for example, we can go to a car repair shop to request that someone perform a windshield repair on our car and see the technician come over with a set of tools that fit in a case he can carry in one hand. The first windshield repair machine, though, was so large that it had to be moved about on the bed of a pickup truck.
So Techna Glass’s decade of history is already a fine and respectable one as far as the auto glass repair industry goes. The technicians at the company’s stores are known for servicing just about any vehicle, from your average sedan to the bane of most auto glass stores: classic or vintage cars. The owners of B. T. Pearson Tires & Service are already emphasising this flexibility in their new services in the area to the locals.
