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The Velux Group and Guardian Glass have entered a joint development agreement concerning tempered vacuum insulated glass (VIG).
Over 30 years, Press Glass has grown from a single facility into a household name among flat glass suppliers. 15 international facilities spread across Poland, Croatia, Italy, the UK and the US produce quality interior and exterior glass for the commercial and residential market.
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.
Architects and window manufacturers are increasingly focussing on the combination of solar control and glare protection with glazing in a single component, i.e. on insulating glass units with blinds. Find out about the benefits here.
If you are looking for the highest insulation values in insulating glass, you will find them in insulating glass units with an integrated vacuum element, such as Fineo Hybrid. It insulates with a Ug-value of less than 0.5 W/(m2K), but are significantly more delicate than triple insulating glass with a thickness of 22 mm or more. But such hybrid glass offers even more advantages, which we present here.
The Ikeuchi Gate Building in the Japanese city of Sapporo combines technology and innovation at the highest level. Here you can find out how facade glass from Saint-Gobain Glass and the associated Ultimate insulating glass spacers from Swisspacer contribute to optimising the energy efficiency of the building envelope.
The circular economy is a pressing concern in the flat glass industry, as explored in the upcoming glasstec 2024. Despite a 12% reduction in industry emissions in 2023, the positive trend is partly attributed to decreased production rather than sustainable practices.
Vitro Architectural Glass has launched Sungate ThermL glass, a new low-emissivity (low-e) coating engineered for use on the interior surface of a typical one-inch insulating glass unit that reduces heat transfer and dramatically improves U-values when paired with a Solarban solar control low-e glass by Vitro on the second surface.
Swisspacer Air - integrated into the edge seal of insulating glass - ensures continuous pressure equalisation with the environment and thus mitigates climate loads. In collaboration between Swisspacer and the Saint-Gobain Glassolutions Insulating Glass Centre, the foundation has now been laid to allow it to obtain a CE mark.
The heart of Belfast is home to a number of magnificent Victorian bank buildings. These listed buildings have now been fitted with new glazing using Edgetech's Super Spacer Heritage (warm edge) spacers.
Since November 2023, the ban on microplastics and products to which microplastics have been deliberately added has been in force in the EU. Find out what this has to do with glass transport and what options there are for complying with the new legislation here.
The new Engineering Center was opened at the Lisec site in Seitenstetten on 3 November 2023. Around 140 additional workstations are located on four floors and 2000 square metres of space. The new building was duly celebrated together with all those involved and guests. Here are the details.
Aurys Industries has now launched the Oforce mirror made of LSG as a product innovation and is thus offering a mirror made of laminated safety glass with a very high level of resistance for the first time.
Swisspacer's warm edge spacers have been among the best on the international market for 25 years. To mark its anniversary, the Swiss company is presenting a new image and a new logo.
Technically outdated window panes cause high heating costs. Often, old IG units can be exchanged for modern vacuum glass with relatively little effort. An interesting business model for glaziers and window manufacturers. Here you can find out which vacuum glasses make this possible.
Founded in 1960 and in the same family for three generations, Predari Vetri SPA has grown into a major producer of insulating glass in Italy. Their portfolio covers all types of insulating glass, including warm edge, as well as made-to-measure products with laminated and tempered glass.
The 2023 edition of Vitrum, the Italian trade show dedicated to glass automation, is over. Forel, an exhibitor since 1981, showed its latest generation of machinery, solutions and processes. Here is a recap:
The Sphere - this is the name of the currently largest spherical construction in the world. The new event centre is located east of the famous Las Vegas Strip in the world-famous casino city and clearly shapes its surroundings. The building envelope features paralell IG units with the warm-edge system from the sealant and adhesive manufacturer H.B. Fuller | Kömmerling.
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.
The new building of the Tyrolean educational centre in Lans, Austria, offers optimal conditions for users with its special architectural and lighting concept. A shed roof construction with Velux Modular Skylights ensures homogeneous daylight penetration with north-facing light bands. At the same time, PV modules keep the energy footprint of the education centre small.
Two and Triple insulating glasses with Low-E and/or solar control layers are standard today. However, in addition to thermal radiation, the low-E layers also reflect radio waves. Due to this Faraday cage effect, mobile phone reception in new buildings is usually poor. Read how it can be done differently.
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.
For the renovation project 'The Precedent' in Brussels, eyrise supplied 1160 square metres of eyrise s350 solar control glass. During the planning by Yugening architecture, the aim was for the office and commercial building to meet the criteria of the WELL Building Standard at Gold level when completed. The switchable eyrise glass makes an important contribution to this. Here are the details.
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.
For SMEs in the glass processing industry, quality assurance is becoming more and more important, and it will continue to be a central topic for them in the future. See here the example of Flachglas Sachsen in Grimma and Sülzfeld, eastern Germany:
