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| For the past five years, Nile Aluminium & Metals Company, or AluNile, has had very positive experiences with Glaston's first FC500™ tempering furnace sold outside Finland.
| Electronically tintable glass can offer a solution which avoids having to trade off daylight and views with energy performance and occupant comfort, allowing more glass to be used without energy penalty and without causing thermal or visual…
| Vidromax created a system that enables the production of insulation units with maximum dimension, with 6m by 3,21m, which facilitates transport and export.
| At the Bystronic glass Neuhausen-Hamberg location, there is a cause for great delight: The 1000th sealing robot, namely the high-performance "speed’sealer" was delivered a few days ago to a Chinese customer.
| There's a company in the heart of Bucharest that plays a leading role in Romania's glass processing industry. "Spectrum Inovativ & Industries SRL" was founded in 1991, first as an agent for a foil manufacturer.
| FINSTRAL is a company group with its headquarters in Bolzano (IT) and occupies a successful niche in developing high quality doors and windows, as well as glass fittings.
| The Flachglas Group employs around 1,100 employees at three sites in Switzerland and three sites in Germany – around 650 of them generate revenues of approx. € 70 million at the Wernberg site (Bavaria).
| Finding ways to improve energy efficiency is one of the greatest challenges facing contemporary architecture.
| In modern buildings, glass is increasingly used as a load-carrying material in structural components, such as glass beams. For glass beams especially the edge strength of glass is important.
| In the last few years, the production of insulating glazing units (IGU) evolved to develop composi-tions to obtain high thermal insulation performance: double glazing filled with Argon/Kripton gas, low-emission glazing, warm-edge spacers and triple…
| One of the main problems of glass façades is concerned with solar radiation and thermal isolation.
| A report has been commissioned by Thermoseal Group and produced by an independent warm edge consultant that shows a comparison of the thermal performance through the edge of insulated glass, including: Warm Edge Spacer Bar, Desiccant, PIB and…
| An Introduction to Design and Performance by Dr. Cenk Kocer - University of Sydney, School of Physics, Sydney 2006
| Insulating glass desiccants with different components give quiet disparate quality performances.
| October 2004: At glasstec, A+W and HEGLA present to the expert public the first SortJet controlled by the dynamic, online optimisation system DynOpt. For the first time ever, any sequence required can be achieved automatically, with optimum – in an…
| In the façade industry, glass panes have been bonded to aluminium frames with UV-resistant silicone adhesives for 40 years with almost unchanged mechanical strength.
| Klaus Puschmann, Product Manager at Bystronic Lenhardt GmbH presented a paper on the new dynamic mixer system of the speed’sealer sealing robot which was designed to overcome the limitations of static mixer systems.
| Despite increasingly demanding requirements to save energy and a focus on reducing our use of prime energy, we also need to bear in mind economics and cost effectiveness during the construction phase of buildings, especially on larger projects.
| The following approach describes a new encapsulation technology for glass-glass-modules using tempered thin glass as front and back sheets.
| At this year's GPD in Finland LiSEC was represented by two lecturers.