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As automation progresses, more and more robots are finding their way into the production halls of the flat glass industry. Robot technology is improving both process reliability and the quality of glass products.
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.
A success story: over a quarter of a century ago, in 1998, the SentryGlas ionoplast film was launched on the market for the first time and has had a significant impact on structural glass construction with its increased load-bearing capacity, making new types of construction possible.
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.
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:
Everyone wants safety, but no one should see it. This is a high requirement, especially when it comes to high-security glass and fire-resistant glass. Sebastian Dengg explains how this can nevertheless be achieved.
Folienwerk Wolfen appoints GlassParts as exclusive distributor in the UK and Ireland for evguard, a laminating film, and evguard MPE, a multi-layer polyester insert for heavy impact and printed laminated safety glass applications.
The ongoing rise in the proportions of laminated safety glass used in glazed products is placing glass processors under increasingly tight constraints.
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.
The partition walls and door solutions of the Uniquin system from Dorma-Glas are characterised by a uniform design of all components and can be used very flexibly, including fall protection. A building authority test certificate is available for this up to a height of 3300 mm.
At Krefeld Zoo in Germany, one of the large panorama glass panes of the penguin pool, which is popular with visitors, had been damaged by a rock fall. Vetrotech Saint-Gobain Grund sponsored a new LSG pane suitable for penguins.
Forserum Safety Glass AB in Sweden has recently installed an Osprey system from Softsolution. The system checks tempered glass products for flatness, distortion and anisotropies.
Sporting venues are all about an unobstructed view of the playing field, while maintaining safety, of course. SentryGlas has what it takes.
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.
Kuraray’s PVB Division will from now on be called the Advanced Interlayer Solutions Division. With this change, the company realigns its glass interlayers business towards greater innovation.
Robert Bürkle GmbH held a glass webinar on autoclave-free glass lamination in November 2021. The online event gave viewers an in-depth insight into flatbed lamination of flat and safety glass. Here you can watch an English translation of the event:
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) has created a new performance space by enclosing an outdoor courtyard using a large, structurally glazed rooflight.
The inauguration ceremony for the renovated AGC float glass line in Bor, Russia, took place recently. This float glass line had been shut down for cold repairs. Now the new float line has started production.
One of the largest sculpture exhibitions in Europe, the Bad RagARTz, is drawing visitors to the Swiss spa town of Bad Ragaz until the end of October 2021. The glass sculpture Tri Colore by the artist Kathrin Severin, which is made from glass by Glas Trösch and casts coloured shadows, can also be seen there.
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.
The new arconnect glass ensures good mobile phone reception inside a building. It was developed by glass refiner arcon together with a partner. Here you can find out who they are and what the glass does.
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.
The higher the required safety level of safety glass for facades, the heavier the panes. This is where a development by Silatec and the Technical University of Siegen comes in to produce lighter safety glass. Silatec Managing Director Christoph Hahn explains the details.
