Kuraray Europe GmbH

Kuraray's Advanced Interlayer Solutions combine high quality and long service with exemplary customer service and support, which starts with technical consultations – in the design of new production installations – and can include the joint development of innovative products.

Due to the inclusion of a highly efficient UV stabilizer, Trosifol® UltraClear offers the world’s highest reduced yellowness index.

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A wide variety of interior and exterior designs and effects can be achieved to fulfill the desires of architects and their customers.

Our brilliant colors offer unique color fastness in indoor and outdoor applications, while giving applications an expression of strength, clarity, and unique character.

These advanced capabilities mean that engineers, designers and architects can save energy, increase safety and conceptualize with greater design freedom.

Photo: Barranquilla Window to the World, Colombia © Tecnoglass

They are used in a broad range of structural and security applications, where they offer protection against hurricanes, tornados and/or bullet and blast resistance, maximizing structural integrity for buildings or vehicles and enhancing safety for their occupants.

Photo: Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, China © Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Tourism Management Co., Ltd.

As the world´s only supplier of mono- and multi-layer PVB, Kuraray can help you customize your sound insulation levels.

Laminated safety glass produced with Sound Control offers outstanding complementary operational properties too, in terms of safety, long-term stability, light fastness, and appearance.

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When designing controlled environments for animals (zoos), or plants (botanical gardens and greenhouses), extra care must be taken to provide unfiltered, broad-spectrum light, as close as possible to the animal’s or plant’s natural habitat.

SentryGlas® Natural UV is a structural interlayer for safety glass that combines the structural performance of an ionomer interlayer with increased transmittance of natural UV light. A PVB variant, Trosifol® N-UV is also available.

Kuraray´s Advanced Interlayer Solutions also offers Trosifol® UV Extra Protect, a PVB film that blocks out incidental UV light in its entirety.

It has also developed its BirdSecure® Pro bird-friendly solution, and a film for autoclave-free processing.

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Whether you’re in the architectural or automotive industry, the pressure to decarbonize is affecting everyone. Manufacturers across the globe are being asked, or even required, to reduce operational emissions without reducing quality. But the real challenge is: how do you know which solutions provider you can trust?

Trosifol® R3 is a new line of sustainable interlayer products that forms part of a wider and sustainable up- and downstream value chain, which includes products made from recycled materials, uses clean-energy fabrication, employs more efficient fabrication processes.

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By carefully sorting and reprocessing PVB trimmings generated during the production of laminated glass, Kuraray helps assure that Butacite G sheeting is a clean, reliable raw material for use with new safety glass laminates.

These recycled PVB interlayers are available as rolled sheets in clear and colored versions for automotive and architectural use.

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Innovative products from Kuraray Advanced Interlayer Solutions can help the automotive and transportation industries create new glazing solutions with enhanced features, including additional safety, lighter-weight panels, more fuel-efficient sunroofs or even yacht windows that offer wider and more spectacular views of the ocean.

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