Glass company mourns loss of 2 executives
The group vows to continue following disastrous crash.
Atlantic City casinos ranging from the Borgata to Showboat bear the stamp of APG International, a company specializing in glass building facades.
The Glassboro-based company with about 100 employees has completed at least $45 million in projects at the seaside resort since the 1980s, most of them related to the casino industry.
Two of its employees who were at work on Atlantic City's next casino - a $2.5 billion mega-resort by Revel Entertainment - died when the small plane they were in crashed in Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
The mood at APG International was somber yesterday as colleagues mourned chief operating officer Marc Rosenberg of Margate, N.J., and Alan Barnett of Absecon, N.J., an assistant project manager, a company statement said.
"It will take time, but we are resolved to keep the projects they dedicated themselves to on target," said Edward Zaucha, the CEO.
He added: "We also resolve to always remember Marc and Alan. Their work will be a legacy to the kind of people they were - dedicated, hard-working and genuinely two of the best people any of us here at APG International ever had the pleasure of knowing."
Rosenberg's brother, Eric Rosenberg, is a vice president of APG and initially had intended to join his brother on the Minnesota trip, according to APG. The company said it sent Eric Rosenberg instead to Philadelphia for a simultaneously scheduled meeting on a separate project.
Marc Rosenberg joined the company in 1998. Barnett began working there in 2006.