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| Digitalisation is not only something for start-ups or major enterprises. It applies just as naturally to many skilled trade businesses.
| The laserbird is a universal tool, making it the perfect choice for a broad portfolio of customers, applications and glass products.
| The author compares different existing and new application systems for interleaving material for bending windshields.
| Contemporary architectural transparency (understood as the optical property of the material) is constantly being redefined and, over the last decade, new design trends have developed related to transparent façades in architecture.
| This paper proposes system concepts and fabrication methods for the use of ultra-thin glass in facades.
| New Technical Document (TD) reviews glass surface decontamination—and what makes glass ideal for physical separation and other applications.
| Digital Design and Fabrication
| Safety standards are constantly rising in all possible areas in which glass is used or installed – which is the reason why lamination is also becoming increasingly important in the glass industry.
| During times when the number of suppliers in all industries is steadily increasing and the market is becoming more and more transparent at the same time, the importance of cost-effective production for higher profit margins increases tremendously.
| When we speak about technological progress in mechanical engineering in general terms, conversations often revolve around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
| It is well known that laminated safety glass (LSG) is a material that is specifically processed because of its composition.
| Along with the multifunctionality of the building skin, BIPV today involves a new aesthetics in contemporary architecture.
| This article will focus on the edge stability of PVB and ionoplast laminates and address the potential causes of blemishes.
| Thin glass – as thin as a razor blade or a human hair – is a reliable method to protect smartphone touchscreens, sensitive filters and sensors.
| Borosilicate glass, in particular, is extremely well-suited for 3D printing processes in a range of applications.
| Keeping impurities away from the glass is imperative in the glass tempering process. These impurities can cause damage resulting in a product that doesn’t live up to aesthetic standards, won’t meet a client specification or is completely unusable.
| sedak GmbH & Co.KG, Germany, operates the largest insulating glass line in the world – about extraordinary glass processing and the role of LiSEC.
| LiSEC is the pioneer in terms of the development and production of production lines for large-scale insulating glasses – incl. interview with Hannes Spiss, facade engineer at Arup, Büro für Bautechnik (office for construction technology)
| Skaala was founded in 1956 as a one-man company. The father of the two current owners, Hannu and Markku Hautanen, was a carpenter and already in those days, he processed glass while repairing doors and windows.
| glassonweb.com contacted the major players in the flat glass industry, asking for their statements regarding the Brexit vote results and how they see it affecting the near future of the European glass and construction markets.