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The World’s first* glass spiral staircase using a suspension structure - AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announces that it has completed the world’s first spiral glass staircase using a…
It is one of those rare combinations – delicate, yet durable; subtle, yet sturdy and simple, but sophisticated.   It has everything that it takes to style up the interior space with its sleek presence, and yet create a safe, secure ambiance.
P²-Coating inspection: saving annual resources of hundreds of thousand Euros   Coating transforms glass into an all-purpose material, used for example to grace the facades of large buildings.
Stewart Engineers is launching its newly developed next generation pyrolytic Low E coating, Low E Pro.
September 16 is the second anniversary of the Window Film and Coated Glass Committee. On this memorable day, the committee which is under China Architectural and Industrial Glass Association held a Standing Committee meeting in Beijing, attended by…
AGC, a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, has been named a Thomson Reuters 2013 Top 100 Global Innovator.
AGC Flat Glass Ibérica and the labour unions have just signed an agreement aimed at raising the competitiveness of the Sagunto plant in Spain in a lasting way.   The plant produces float glass and also processes it into mirrors, laminated glass and…
It’s time to get the excitement back into the bedroom; it’s time to switch to privacy glass and make that personal space more private than ever before…    Call it the Switchable Intelligent Glass or simply Privacy Glass, Saint-Gobain’s Priva-Lite…
AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announces that it has reached an agreement with PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad under which AGC will acquire a 78% equity stake in a Vietnamese polyvinyl…
AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announced today that its world’s first glass-roof bench has received the Good Design Award 2013.
Pleotint, LLC, will exhibit its new Suntuitive® interlayer for laminated glass at booth 642 during the GREENBUILD® International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia, Nov. 20–22.
RENOVATE by Berkowitz™, LLC (RbB) has launched a new website at www.RbBWindow.com.
The glassy office tower 4 World Trade Center is set to open in November, and The Real Deal took a glimpse behind the construction fences to see what Silverstein Properties' latest development is shaping up to be.
AGC, a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, announced today that two of its products for automotive windows—UV Verre Premium™ /UV Verre Premium Cool on™ tempered glass and Lamisafe™ laminated glass—have earned The…
A push for a change is growing on a problem first exposed by I-Team 8 last month. Some national experts are now calling for a reconsideration of plans to require high strength, laminated glass on car side windows.
Pilkington K Glass™ S has reached a new milestone! NSG Group’s new coater at Cowley Hill has produced over two and a half million square metres.   As the UK’s first jumbo off-line coating plant, Cowley Hill allows the NSG Group to manufacture a…
AGC, a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, announced today that AGC Glass Brazil, Inc. has started production of architectural glass at its industrial glass complex in Guaratinguetá, São Paulo State.
Glass and customs jewellery production remains a significant industry in the Czech Republic and its sales have grown by 160 percent since the 1990s, according to a study carried out by the Technical University in Liberec.
AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announces that it has decided to newly establish an auto glass plant at its subsidiary AGC Flat Glass (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (Head office: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province,…
At present, the global major LOW-E glass manufacturers are Pilkington (U.K.), PPG (U.S.), Glaverbel (Belgium), and Saint–Gobain (France); the overseas market is basically controlled by above enterprises.
Nanotechnology product manufacturer Nanovations Pty Ltd, announces it has won the contract for the supply of its glass coatings to the Socar Tower project in Baku, Azerbaijan.  The Socar Tower at 209 meters is the highest building in the Caucasus…
Innovative Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) will further help architects to design energy harvesting, zero emission buildings to meet worldwide directives to reduce carbon emissions.
At the VITRUM glass trade show in Milan, LiSEC will showcase machines for float glass cutting, glass sorting, frame manufacturing, flat glass processing and laminated glass production on 800m² of exhibition space.
Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections.
The smallest of the furnaces at AGC Boussois had been closed this week. B1 has a capacity of 650 tpd was built only in 2008.