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This year's China Glass took place at Shanghai New International Expo Centre from April 14th to 17th. This event marked at the same time its 25th anniversary.
Birmingham-based Glass Express Midlands Limited has purchased additional equipment to increase its capacity to gas fill insulated glass (IG) sealed units to meet the growing demand for more thermally efficient double and triple glazing.
For centuries, glass has been a building material and the importance of glass as a building material has risen over years.
Air Products (NYSE: APD) has recently installed an air separation unit (ASU) for AGC Glass Europe, the world's largest producer of flat glass.
Viridor has announced today that it has been awarded a 10-year contract to upgrade and operate a new Material Recycling Facility (MRF) at Chelson Meadow by Plymouth City Council that will improve the recycling services to households across Plymouth.
Synseal Extrusions, the leading UK-owned systems supplier, has joined the GGF and at a recent GGF Window and Door Group meeting, Head of Marketing Mark Schlotel was presented with their framed Membership certificate by Brian Baker, GGF President and…
About 70 billion tons of raw materials are extracted world wide annually. That is twice as much as at the end of the 1970s.
Pilkington Spacia™ has been recognised by Japan’s Green Watchdog ECCJ as a superior energy- efficient product, awarding it with the Energy Conservation Prize. The ECCJ (Energy Conservation Center, Japan) promotes energy conservation both in the…
New Stadium Featuring Glass Façade, Balustrade, Lounges Will Host Opening Match of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ AGC, a world-leading supplier of glass, chemicals, ceramics and other high-tech materials and components, today announced the company has…
AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announces that its lightweight light control pair glass has been installed in a gauge changeable new test train of Japan Railway Construction, Transport and…
Tvitec presented in Madrid in VETECO (International Window, Curtain Walls and Structural Glass Trade Show) its spectacular new glass is 12 meters long.
International Innovative Technologies Ltd (IIT), the specialist milling technology company, has produced a new film to demonstrate the feasibility and cost effective conversion of waste glass into powder products for use in a wide range of recycling…
Demonstrating the Energy-saving Performance of Low-E Glass ATTOCH™ Applied to Windows of the Main Building of the City Government - AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) and the City of Kitakyushu (…
Faced with a sustained increase in demand for automotive glass, AGC Glass Europe is restarting one of its three Teplice-based float lines* after an extensive upgrade programme lasting 2 years.
With triple glazing now hot topic, AGC’s Mark Rodgers considers the huge implications for the UK glass and glazing industry if triple glazing becomes the residential sector’s product of choice.
Expanding to serve customers throughout western Canada, Technoform Glass Insulation North America, Inc. (TGI NA) has partnered with Coniston Products Ltd., based in Delta, British Columbia.
Latest glass recycling figures for the EU show also there is now far more glass recycled than ever before.
NSF International, an independent global organization that writes standards, and tests and certifies products for the commercial furnishing, construction, food, water and consumer goods industries, in collaboration with the Glass Association of…
Energy savings and clean utilization of raw materials have become the topical issues in modern society.
With the rising demand for gas-filled triple glazed units, leading UK Component Supplier Thermoseal Group has introduced two new sizes to its Thermobar warm edge range - 7.5mm and 9.5mm gas keys.
International Innovative Technologies Ltd (IIT), the specialist milling technology company, has produced a new film to demonstrate the feasibility and cost effective conversion of waste glass into powder products for use in a wide range of recycling…
SunEwat XL – AGC’s laminated glass with embedded photovoltaic cells – adds yet another application: spandrels.
Thermoseal Group, the UK’s leading manufacturer of warm edge spacer, has released a new range of internal spacer bar and fittings in sizes 11.5mmx18mm and 15.5mmx18mm that will allow customers to simulate traditional multi-pane Georgian windows with…
An additional and currently very important quality of this extraordinary material, glass, is its total recyclability: starting with 100 kg of recycled product, in fact, it's possible to obtain 100 kg of new product.
Recently, a document titled "Glass for Europe's Industrial Renaissance" was released by Glass for Europe, in which some policy measures are proposed to spark a revolution in Europe's flat glass industry in the next five years.