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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.
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.
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.
Italian brand Strato has developed an EVA interlayer for safety glass lamination that is fully carbon-neutral and has been awarded a top international certification for sustainability. Click here for more details:
Making insulating glass from safety glass is a sensible decision to increase intrusion protection in shop windows or commercial buildings as well as in private homes. Here you will find 4 good reasons for using safety glass in IGUs.
Protecting one's trademarks is elementary for any market player, be it manufacturer, distributor or converter. Kuraray wants to clear up some confusion in the industry regarding the SentryGlas ionoplast interlayer brand. Here are the details.
The ongoing rise in the proportions of laminated safety glass used in glazed products is placing glass processors under increasingly tight constraints.
Individual glass constructions are more in demand than ever in architecture today. This also applies to existing buildings in New York. In the case of the office tower at 299 Park Avenue, the lobby was transformed into a transparent and inviting space, with glass in large formats from Glas Trösch.
The specialist for oversized glass has set itself the goal for 2023 to gradually transition to more environmentally friendly production. And that not only since the energy prices been going through the roof.
The facade of the new building of the Gronau municipal utility in Münsterland will generate solar electricity in the future. The transparent solar modules custom-made by ASCA (Armor Group, manufacturer of organic photovoltaics - OPV) are very large and were integrated into facade glass by BGT Bischoff Glastechnik.
Since the beginning of 2023, Andrea Beerlink has been the new managing director of glass finishing company Cura Glass, Lopik. She succeeds owner Marijn van den Ingh, who wants to work "in the background" for the expansion of the more than 330-year-old company.
Last year, Mexico City got its city cable car. See here the laminated glass system that Glas Marte specially developed to enclose the stations.
There is a clear trend in modern glass architecture towards large facades without visible support structures. At the last glasstec, Edgetech Europe had presented projects in New York and Sweden where flexible Super Spacer spacers had been used to great effect:
The campus of the University of St. Gallen has recently been adorned with the new Square, a building designed to support interactive and innovative forms of teaching and learning. The facade with special glass from Glas Trösch is also innovative. Here you can find out how the glass is constructed in detail.
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.
NorthGlass has broken its own records by creating a 23-metre laminated glass pane. The PMU (performance test unit) consists of 12 millimetre ultra-clear tempered glass with 6-layer Sentryglas laminations.
Tvitec’s glass is one of the cornerstones of the radical urban transformation of the railway station in León in Spain. See here how Tvitec’s glazed and laminated solutions played a key role in making it a reality.
The market for LSG and laminated glass is on the rise: AGC Glass Europe is investing in the construction of a new LSG production facility in Osterweddingen, just south of Magdeburg, Germany. The investment is over 10 million euros. Here are the details.
Robert Bürkle GmbH is working with Meyer Burger Technology AG in the production of innovative PV modules. Meyer Burger’s plant is Europe's largest and most modern such production facilities.
Rollplast was founded in 2000 by Svetlin Nikolchev with the goal of producing and installing indoor and outdoor blinds. Since then, the Bulgarian company has been looking at constant growth, especially in PVC windows.
Weru, the famous company that is the oldest window production factory in Germany. The more than 1,000 employees of the Weru Group produce over 400,000 sashes and around 10,000 front doors every year.
H.B. Fuller | Kömmerling now offer for the first time a system solution for Loca glass elements with Clear Edge technology. Here you can find out what is behind the new process, which enables liquid lamination of laminated glass without a visible edge seal.
Laminated glass is made of two pieces of regular or tempered glass sandwiched around a layer of clear plastic film (PVB).
Insulating glass (IG) consists of two or more glass panes separated by an air or gas-filled space to reduce heat transfer/loss across the windows or doors (in case of glass doors) of the building envelope.
GLASWELT author Thomas Schmidt visited a laser specialist and was shown a glass cutting technology that makes it even possible to cut tempered glass or toughened single-pane safety glass. Here are the details:
