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AGC inaugurated a new LSG production facility in Osterweddingen at the end of April 2024. With an annual capacity of 5.5 million square metres, the LSG line will produce high-quality safety glass. The plant is scheduled to officially go into operation in June 2024. Here are the details.
On his travels through the landscape of the US window market, our guest author Markus Brunner has made it to the Deep South. At the end of the road he reflects on the many strengths of windows Made in Germany and some of the challenges that might still need to be overcome to make it big in America.
Viwinco Windows & Doors is a second-generation family-run window and door manufacturer based in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, founded in 1982. The company recently purchased a new IFL laminator from Bürkle and here the two managers talk about their experience with the machine from Germany.
In addition to a line with the systron 6033es1 at its heart, arcon Flach- und Sicherheitsglas GmbH & Co. KG in Feuchtwangen in southern Germany has installed a 6033proHD CNC processing centre. With storage automation and face-to-face positioning of this waterjet system, arcon achieves high processing versatility with minimal resources.
The facade of the new administration building of the A. Müller dairy in Aretsried is as white as milk. The facade owes its clear effect primarily to the 430 sedak gsp facade elements. In combination with offset ribbon windows, an elegant all-glass facade was created for the building, which was realised to the highest efficiency standards.
The AGC Interpane plant in Plattling, southern Germany, produces high-quality semi-finished glass products and insulating glass. The basis is coated glass up to 18 m x 3.21 m. These extra-long glass elements can be provided with various solar control layers or with iplus thermal insulation layers. With the latest IG line from Glaston, even XXL formats can be produced automatically.
NSG Group has announced that the decision to cease the production on a float line at the plant in Weiherhammer, Germany, a year ahead of a scheduled cold repair.
A sharp decline in demand is currently the order of the day in the window industry - it is therefore all the more important now to have the cost situation under control. In an exclusive series in GW, economist Matthias König looks at important topics relating to corporate management.
At the Fensterbau Frontale trade fair in Nuremberg from 19 to 22 March, people are the focus for Hegla and Hegla boraident. The companies will be presenting solutions at their booth that make work easier for employees, provide a high level of safety, and improve efficiency.
Edgetech, providers of the Super Spacer brand of warm edge spacer bars, will be exhibiting at this year’s FENSTERBAU FRONTALE Nuremberg, Germany, 19 to 22 March 2024. More details here:
The largest wooden building in Europe is located in Munich's Olympic Park. In this building with its high wooden beams, high demands were placed on the facade glass, especially the glass in the roof level. Here you can find out which special glass was used there.
This new office building in Stuttgart, Germany, known as OWP 12 referring to its address, was created using the newest planning and building methods in accordance with the Cradle to Cradle principle and it shows what energy-plus architecture can do today thanks to the slimline, high performance facade with BIPV.
Weil am Rhein has a new shopping mall for visitors from Germany, France and Switzerland. The Dreiländergalerie was designed by Chapman Taylor. The Climaplus Cool-Lite Xtreme facade glass from Saint-Gobain Glass was supplied by vandaglas from the ClimaPlusSecurit partner network, and Lamparter Stahl und Glas from Kassel acted as the installer.
Like Munich’s Oktoberfest but not the same: The Cannstatter Wasen is Stuttgart’s big annual beer fest. Where better to celebrate three quarter of a century of GLASWELT Magazine? Here are some impressions from yesterday’s get-together:
In his new Position Christian Bako joins the Executive Committee of Saint-Gobain. He replaces Cordula Gudduschat who becomes General Manager of Isover and Rigips Germany.
Berlin's Alexanderplatz is also home to the "Haus des Berliner Verlages" - today's "Pressehaus am Alexanderplatz". It will be extensively renovated in 2021 and expanded with a new glass building. Solar control glass from AGC Interpane with Super Spacer spacers is installed there.
Schüco is expanding its range of services and acquiring 100,000 square metres of space at Gewerbepark Flugplatz Gütersloh GmbH. On the northern part of the site of the former British military airfield, the company intends to develop an additional location in East Westphalia-Lippe for product provision and distribution.
On the site of a former officers' home in the north of Sylt, ingenhoven associates realised the Lanserhof Sylt - a modern medical health resort. The result is buildings with impressive thatched roofs, which with their natural materials blend harmoniously into the gentle dune landscape. Sun protection is provided by Infrastop insulating glass units from Flachglas Wernberg.
The story begins in 1989 when a Hamburg businessman and a glass manufacturer from South Africa jointly found KAB Allglass GmbH. Today, Allglass is in other hands, with the Grnjak family also involved and active as glass traders, refiners and ESG manufacturers.
Located in Rostock in the north of Germany, caleoglas Nord GmbH is a part of the caleoglas Group and specialises in the manufacturing of quality insulating glass made in Germany.
Safety glass is on the rise and coming standardisation will further strengthen this trend. In this context, the associated glass products need to meet high quality requirements. Carl and Thomas Pinnekamp from Teutemacher Glas have long been committed to the idea of quality. Here you can find out what role their own ESG furnace plays in this.
Companies from the glass machinery and glass industries as well as the glass trades can now register for glasstec 2024. The world's leading glass trade fair will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 22 to 25 October 2024.
The imposing Newton office building of the TÜV Süd Group in Munich, Germany offers plenty of room for creativity. A visual highlight of the building is the 950-square metre glass roof from Lamilux, which covers the entire entrance hall and provides plenty of daylight in the interior. Here are details of the implementation.
The vandaglas Group has acquired a number of glass processors in the DACH region in recent years, in addition to acquisitions in the Netherlands and the UK. in this exclusive interview with GW-News in Berlin, Lukas Himmel, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of vandaglas, spoke about the group's goals, acquisitions of glass companies and the results of this strategy.
Interpane Sicherheitsglas GmbH produces more than just standard laminated safety glass and toughened safety glass products. Such as interior and exterior glass with complex shapes. Find out here how the AGC subsidiary managed to stay at the cutting edge:
