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The Glass Performance Days 2023 were full of informative content on a wide variety of topics across the glass industry. If you were unable to make it to Finland last summer, you can get a feel for what the event was like by clicking here:
The Board of Directors of Glaston Corporation has appointed Toni Laaksonen as President and CEO. He will oversee a global business with about 1,000 employees active in more than 50 countries.
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.
Since establishing their presence in the US through an acquisition, Poland-based glass fabricator Press Glass, also active in Europe and the UK, has continued its brisk growth. To support this, the company has recently invested in a Glaston ProL convection control upgrade at its plant in Ridgeway, Virginia.
Anders Dahlblom has submitted his resignation from his position as the CEO of Glaston Corporation for personal reasons. The Board will start the search for a new CEO immediately.
Glaston recently launched the Active'Sealer for IGU production. GW-News has now interviewed Uwe Risle, the responsible product manager, about this: here are his answers.
The proceedings of the GPD 2023 are now available for download. The presentations of the speakers are published in the compendium. Here are the details and the download link:
Glaston recently celebrated 40 years of its insulating glass Services division. Offering support with original spare parts, maintenance, upgrades and more, the Services team still helps to keep customers’ machines running.
Vitrum 2023 will open its doors from 5 to 8 September at the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition centre in Milan. Vitrum will also feature innovations from the glass printing, sandblasting and glass marking segments. Here are details of Glaston's innovations.
Energy efficiency, quality and automation in production play an important role in every piece of glass processed. To this end, Glaston will be presenting a number of innovations at Vitrum 2023 in Milan from 5-8 September 2023, including for the following segments.
Glaston Corporation has released its half-year financial report for the first half of 2023 and provides an outlook for the months ahead. Here are the latest figures.
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.
At GPD 2023, Glaston executives have informed GW-News of a plan to restructure the group's organisation in order to better serve customers in the architectural glass, automotive and other segments. And Dietmar Walz is leaving the company. Here are the details.
Glaston and the Velux Group recently announced their collaboration on Step Change Base Camp 2023 event at the Glass Performance Days 2023 to make the glass industry more sustainable and address global environmental challenges.
The Jorma Vitkala Award of the Glass Performance Days (GPD) wants to honour an outstanding individual from the international glass industry for their outputs and contributions to the industry.
Karl Lenhardt, Managing Director of Glaston Germany GmbH, passed away recently. He will be remembered as one of the pioneers of insulating glass production.
On June 14–16, 2023, another edition of the Glass Performance Days (GPD) conference will be held in Tampere, Finland. The upcoming conference will address the new challenges shaping our lives and businesses as we move forward with our growth strategies.
It was in February 2020 when the Upgrade Team for insulating glass lines was established at Glaston's Neuhausen-Hamberg site. Now the team celebrated its three-year anniversary. The aim is to offer IGU manufacturers greater added value by upgrading their line.
"We have great confidence in Glaston," says Andreas Herzog, Managing Director of Glas Herzog of Germany. And this is not only reflected in the recent purchase of a new Speed Box insulating glass line from Glaston. Here are the details of a long-standing partnership.
In developing its system technology, Glaston focuses on enabling processors to produce more energy-efficient glass. At glasstec, the supplier will also be presenting, among other things, AI-based toughening solutions for glass processors.
Glas Herzog was founded in 1948 as a glass grinding factory near Heidelberg, Germany. Today, the company offers a full range of functional and insulating glass and has recently installed a new IG line from Glaston.
The architecture firm SOM has built a 530-m high glass skyscraper in Tianjin. Manufactured using Glaston machines, all glass facades were supplied by CSG Holding, the largest producer of architectural glass in China.
100 per cent accessibility, portholes in a renovated glass facade, how to dispose of and recycle PVC windows and Glaston‘s new Sales and Service Director Down Under. Here are our top stories of the week:
As of July 1, 2021, Konstantin Petrov has taken the helm as Sales and Service Director of Glaston’s Australian Branch Office. Konstantin replaces David Charnock, who will retire at the end of this year after 50 years in the glass industry.
As of the beginning of September 2021, Joe Butler has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Sales and Service for the Americas. He will oversee the sales and service of Glaston products in the Americas.
