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Enhanced solar control glass with exceptional performance
POLFLAM partner GLOBSPEED earns PEFC certification for sustainable wood packaging.
Saint-Gobain Glass receives the latest Cradle to Cradle Certified® certification version 4.0 for its glass products
Twenty years ago, Formator began producing safety laminated glass. Since then, its products have reached over 40 countries worldwide from Croatia.
In addition to the five-part video series, Glass for Europe is thrilled to unveil a two-pager Manifesto outlining its priorities and policy recommendations for the 2024-2029 mandate of the European institutions.
Şişecam will take part in the International Solar Energy and Technologies Fair Solarex Istanbul, held at the Istanbul Expo Center from April 4th to 6th.
POLFLAM is thrilled to announce the receipt of an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its monolithic fire-resistant glass product range in fire resistance ratings EI and EW.
The agenda at glasstec 2024 features topics that keep the glass industry busy: Decarbonisation, Circular economy and Digital technologies. From 22 to 25 October these Hot Topics will be in focus.
The unique adaptive reuse of Pittsburgh’s RIDC Mill 19 features windows with Solarban® 60 Glass and skylights with Solarban® 70 Glass.
The plenary session of the European Parliament has voted in favor of the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, one of the final texts of the ‘Fit for 55’ package.
Structured around three main questions, the Q&A helps to approach the issue of carbon from different angles.
Guardian Glass North America honored the glaziers and fabricators of seven commercial projects at its 7th annual Commercial Project Awards event March 4 in Nashville.
The new video is the last one in a five-part series that constitutes Glass for Europe’s manifesto, titled ‘A Mandate to Focus on Enabling Sustainable Transformation.’
Vitro Architectural Glass is pleased to announce that its Solarban® 60 glass was selected by the GSA for the Powell Courthouse and Annex renovations.
The flat glass sector participated in the event with the presence of Jean-Marc Meunier, CEO of AGC Glass Europe, and Bertrand Cazes, Secretary General of both Glass for Europe and Glass Alliance Europe.
The facility will be the first-of-its-kind in the country to use recycled materials from retired solar panels to make new solar glass.

Articles

Flat glass manufacturers are rightly focused on reducing their operational carbon and in turn the embodied carbon of the glass materials that they create.
The main benefits from dynamic glass relate to visual light comfort, light control and spectral modulation, privacy modulation and the most critical nowadays energy savings.
Sustainable growth requires cost efficiency and continuous optimization of processes. Sometimes, it even requires a disruptive change within an organization.
This paper will review the impact of silicones at various levels of a sustainable design.
First valid steps on the pathway to better re-utilization of glass elements
This paper seeks to understand the outstanding questions around the potential carbon consequences and benefits of using insulating glass units (IGU) in facades.
The authors present results achieved in a roll-to-roll deposition process of vanadium oxide on flexible glass of 0.1 mm thickness.
At present, widespread energy innovations in terms of optimizing both the on-site distributed energy generation and the energy use intensity are urgently required in the built environment and in agricultural production facilities.
Read more about Antti Aronen's presentation at Glass Performance Days (GPD) 2023, "An enhanced model of thermomechanical loading on a Vacuum Insulated Glazing".
The main objective of this paper was to assess the performance of a new WFG-unitized facade as a high-performance envelope with dynamic thermal properties.
In this article, Mika gives our readers some expert advice on improving energy efficiency in safety glass manufacturing.
In the latest Glastory blog post, Antti Aronen introduces how the complexity of automotive windshields and sunroofs has significantly increased with evolving modern car designs.

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