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Oregon BEST grant funds industry-university collaboration that could cut heat transfer through windows while allowing more visible light to enter buildings -Oregon BEST has awarded a commercialization grant to a team of industry-university…
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Engineering design and development company, International Innovative Technologies Ltd. (IIT) has secured an order for a milling system utilising its patented fine grinding technology for waste glass recycling.
The RENOVATE by Berkowitz(TM), LLC (RbB) window retrofitting system has enabled 400 Market Street, a 12-story building in Philadelphia, to reduce energy consumption in perimeter offices by over 50 percent, according to results from a year-long…
In this report for Window Industries, Carl F Groupco details the on-going and challenging process of developing a balanced range of hardware and ancillary lines.
Legislation before the Maryland Senate would significantly increase recycling rates, while reducing energy use and emissions, noted Lynn Bragg, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), in testimony offered today before the Senate Education…
Pro-Line Automation is pleased to announce expansion into the United States with a new location in Akron, Ohio.
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI)® today announced a technical "CRT Challenge" to identify financially viable, environmentally-conscious proposals for using recycled…
Neptun is satisfied with the results achieved in 2012. Revenue growth, expansion of the range of products available for sale, losses halved compared to a sharp increase in investment, sales and service network established in major world markets.
The 8th CAB Technical Conference focuses on the challenges of controlling the flow of heat, fire, people and sound through the building envelope and managing the interface between glazing and the envelope.
The city’s construction and administration bureau announced on Monday that it will urge skyscraper builders and property owners to conduct safety checks and repairs on glass curtain walls which have been in use for more than ten years to prevent…
The latest solution for doors and partitions walls offers maximum privacy and maximum transparency, while its unique aesthetic qualities provide the visual lightness preferred by contemporary architecture and design.
In the March 2013 budget statement the Chancellor announced that he “will exempt from next year the industrial processes for that industry [ceramics] and some others from the Climate Change Levy.
Lead-free toughened enamelled glass EMALIT® EVOLUTION can now be manufactured into sealed units in a range of 11 standard colours in less than 10 days, as a result of a £50,000 investment in new production facilities at the GLASSOLUTIONS factory in…
BAU, the world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems, has become more international, more top-class and more professional.
March 22 this year in Mumbai (India) finalized the international exhibition «Glasspex». At the exhibition there were about 170 companies from different countries.
TuffX Processed Glass one of the UK’s leading specialist glass processors has recently invested in new state-of-the-art equipment to help improve efficiency and profitability at the firm.
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As China Glass 2013 is coming to us, all the Chinese glass companies are actively preparing for it.  The 24th China Glass Expo (China Glass Expo 2013), organized by the Chinese Ceramic Society (CCS), will take place at China International Exhibition…
Leading glass processor, Essex Safety Glass (ESG) has quite literally ‘switched’ the branding of its ESG Polyvision™ glass range.
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Float Glass.
Full, frameless glass finishes look fantastic but when it comes down to the end sometimes designs need to be cost engineered.     Glass can be manufactured and installed at massive heights these days.
All at Cantifix are proud to say that for the second year running we have installed more Sky-Frame doors than any other supplier worldwide! In 2012 Cantifix installed 1,517m2 of Sky-Frame doors – 38% of the total fitted across the UK.
A three-dimensional (3D) printer powered by sunlight has been developed with the aim of turning desert sand into glass.