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Bird protection is becoming increasingly important and should already be taken into account when planning glass facades. Here you can find out how Flachglas MarkenKreis and its project consultants help to tackle the problem in the planning phase.
What is the result when a design lab is looking for special rooms for its students and at the same time a high level of fire protection has to be met? Let's take a look at the new animation lab, which has been fitted with Pilkington Pyrostop fire-resistant glass.
Exactly 70 years ago (June 1952), glass pioneer Sir Alastair Pilkington started developing the float process that revolutionized not only the glass industry, but the entire construction industry.
It is not just advancing climate change and the need to reach carbon neutrality by 2045 but also our current dependency on fossil fuel imports that make it clear there is no alternative to switching to renewable energies and new technologies. How can and will that work?
Pilkington offer a new BIPV glass that allows the generation of solar electricity from glass facades. Find out here how that works and why it can be beneficial:
Optimising light penetration is a top priority for greenhouses to maximise yields. For the greenhouse market, the new Pilkington Botanical range offers a range of glass products that optimise or actually increase light penetration.
A redesigned hotel exterior, a colourful glass sculpture, architectural glass produced with hydrogen and a provider of BIPV solutions given a new lease of life. Here is the week in review:
For the first time ever, Pilkington Ltd. of the UK, part of the NSG group, has successfully manufactured architectural glass using hydrogen power. Find out here how that was done:
Pilkington Activ has been used in commercial and residential construction for 20 years due to its self-cleaning properties. Here, Hannah Rullkötter from Pilkington and Frank Horstmann of the Flachglas MarkenKreis answer the most important questions.
The famous Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen has a new eye-catcher: the Inntel Hotel designed by KCAP Architects&Planners. The new building has a multi-layered glass facade reminiscent of a sail. Find out why it features printed special insulating glass with 166 different designs from Pilkington Austria.
Float glass is the most widely used form of glass today and is produced by a process of floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal (usually tin).
At the Lake Huron House, local cabin-style architecture has been reimagined to create a modern family retreat on the shore of one of North America’s five Great Lakes.
When Alastair Pilkington introduced the industrial process for producing float glass in the 1960s, it was not only a revolution for the production of flat glass. It also changed the way glass was made. At the same time the float glass process was a significant step in optical quality that could not be matched by previous methods.
In response to the current challenges posed by the global corona pandemic, NSG Group is introducing the new Pilkington SaniTise. This is a glass with a transparent photocatalytic coating.
In a unique location by the Seine in the first district of Paris, the newly renovated La Samaritaine will open to the public after extraordinary renovation work for its size and complexity. Have a look at this very special building with its bent glass facade.
