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In the intricate world of glass manufacturing, precision, and quality assurance stand as pillars of success.
As part of AYD Group Glass Industry, Wenfrod reinforces its leadership position in the industry through innovative products and sustainable business models.
With the launch of new Guardian CrystalClear glass in North America, architects and designers can answer the broad appeal for a highly transparent glass.
Enhanced solar control glass with exceptional performance
Saint-Gobain has signed a 5-year renewable electricity supply agreement (Power Purchase Agreement or PPA) in Romania with OMV PETROM SA.
20 Mass transforms Capitol Hill with Solarban® 72 Acuity® glass facade.
Use of Lasers To Melt Edges of Glass Together Eliminates Troublesome Polymers
An experimental glass-making facility in St Helens, Merseyside is set to pave the way for significant emission reductions in glass manufacturing with support from Siemens technology.
The most modern control technology is used in the ZeroCO2Glas test furnace. Horn software engineers create the control system with individually adapted process screens.
The Ain Sokhna float plant in Egypt will see its capacity increased with the construction of a second flat glass production line.
The workshop will take place May 16-17, 2024, at the Hyatt Pittsburgh International Hotel in Pittsburgh.
Vitro Architectural Glass achieves Top 20% LEC rating with updated EPDs.
It is well known that climate change refers both to long-term natural and man’s hand shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
Şişecam, among the world's top five largest global manufacturers in the Flat Glass sector, participated in the International Solar Energy and Technologies Fair, Solarex Istanbul, held at the Istanbul Fair Center.
Diageo's seed investment in Glass Futures' expansion highlights its commitment to new tech and partnerships for its 2030 ESG goals.
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.

Articles

The approaches proposed by planners and architects for adapting to climate change will be discussed at glasstec 2024 (22-25 October, Düsseldorf) at its Architecture Forum.
A study of its environmental benefits, quality, and mechanical properties
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.

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