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In October 2023, our guest author Markus Brunner embarked on a trip through the US. What had been planned as a private holiday, nevertheless brought out the window nerd in him. Read exclusively on GW-News and from his own perspective what Markus discovered.
Recently, two all-glass boxes have been rising 305 metres above the fourth tallest skyscraper in New York. Josef Gartner from the Permasteelisa Group was responsible for the construction.
Manufacturer masson is now introducing switchable ConverLight glass for its residential conservatories. This has now been sealed by the partnership with GGW and ChromoGenics. The first conservatory to be realised with switchable glass is now located in an exclusive villa suburb of Hamburg. The glass was manufactured by the Hero Group.
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.
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.
Swiss whisky lovers Rinaldo Willy and Pascal Mittner have chosen a very special place for their production: the mountain station of the Corvatsch cable car. Today, the highest distillery in the world is located there. Insulating glass with warm-edge spacers from Swisspacer also allow the best views into the distillery from the outside.
For the new development centre at the German headquarters of gauge manufacturer WIKA, the architects attached great importance to a flexible and transparent office structure. Multifunctional triple IG units with the solar control glass Gewe-therm sun from Schollglas provide maximum daylight.
Ravensby Glass is a glass company based in Dundee, Scotland, specializing in products such as double and triple glazed units, interior glass and facades. With over 150 employees and 7,000 square metres of production space, the company distributes its products throughout the UK.
At BAU 2023, AGC Pyrobel focused on very slim fire-resistant glass structures with high light transmission and optimised thermal insulation. This is now possible thanks to the combination of Pyrobel with Fineo vacuum glass. Another topic was fire-resistant glass in XXL formats (Pyrobel-T) as well as delicate glass partitions without disturbing mullions.
With the new Hueck Trigon FS 050/060 SG, the system house, which is now part of the Hydro Group, has added a structural glazing system to the Trigon range. Like the entire Trigon modular system, the new SG facade is compatible with the other Hueck systems. Johannes Driessen explains the details.
Saint-Gobain has signed an agreement to sell its Swiss glass processing business to the German group Aequita. The glass processors of Glassolutions Kreuzlingen in Switzerland will then become part of the Vandaglas Group, the glass division of Aequita.
Super Spacer can lay claim to some world premieres in facade technology solutions. Here are some very spectacular examples in museum spaces.
Fineo will present new vacuum glasses at BAU (17-22 April 23 in Munich), among others in combination with Pyrobel fire protection glass. The special feature is that very slim fire protection glass structures with high transparency and optimised thermal insulation can be produced with it.
How to make bird protection glass beautiful With Saflex FlySafe 3D, Eastman introduces a new PVB interlayer that is an effective way to keep birds from colliding with glass facades and also enables highly transparent pane assemblies. Here are the details.
A new furnace for XXL curved glass, new headquarters in Brazil, better IG units thanks to strict quality control and the Opening Ceremony of the IYOG. These are our top stories of the week:
That is what project developer Omniyat calls "The Opus" tower in downtown Dubai. The building envelope pushes the limits of what is technologically feasible with advanced engineering. Edgetech Super Spacer TriSealTM are a key part of this massive 3D puzzle.
A 36-year-old IGU line in Switzerland, a sound refracting facade in Paris, a sustainable glass facade in the Netherlands and some towers featuring a warm edge system in Canada. These are our top stories of this week:
Glas Müller AG from Switzerland is a classic family-owned glazing company. Today, around 30 employees are active there for the entire construction glass spectrum. And a vintage machine is also in use there: an IGU line from Lisec dating back to the last millennium.
When transporting IG units to locations of different altitude above sea level, the gas in the space between the glass panes can cause the window unit to bulge. Swisspacer have now come up with a solution for this:
Today, when energy efficiency is more important than ever, it’s a good time to talk about insulating glass spacers. Glass spacers play a significant role in thermal performance of an insulating glass unit. Get the key facts here:
Insulating glass is useful in a variety of applications. Which is the best type of IG unit comes down to what function the window or facade it is used in is intended to achieve. The following is a rundown of the major types:
