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For the first time, Forel UK & Ireland will exhibit at FIT Show 2025, showcasing its latest advancements in machine technology.
On February 21st and 22nd, 2025, NorthGlass held its managers' conference in Shanghai under the theme "Three Decades of Commitment, Moving Forward to a Shared Future."
BEC Conference kicked off in Las Vegas this week with a Welcome Reception. A packed room enjoyed food and drinks and lots of networking, with the glazing industry making connections before a packed education event.
The deadline for GPD 2025 Workshop submissions is fast approaching—applications will close tomorrow, February 28!
On March 12, Glass for Europe Board members met in the association’s new offices in Brussels for their first meeting of the year.
Registration is now open for the FGIA Southeast Region Meeting, taking place April 22-23 at the Clearwater Beach Marriott Resort on Sand Key in Florida.
Kuraray is set to make a strong return to Riyadh, reaffirming its commitment to the Saudi market.
Registration for Glassman Europe is now open! Taking place on 14-15 May in Istanbul, Turkey, this premier event serves as the ultimate hub for connecting the glass community from Europe to Central Asia and the Middle East.
In the message below, Nicole Harris addresses the current landscape, the challenges ahead, and the resilience that continues to define our industry.
The 6th Russian Construction Week opened yesterday at EXPOCENTRE Fairgrounds.
Şişecam will showcase its sustainable and innovative glass packaging products to industry professionals.
Registration is now open for the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) FENBC Region Summit, taking place April 1-2 in Surrey, BC.
This leading show and business platform for the Russian glass industry takes place simultaneously with RosBuild 2025 as part of Russian Construction Week.
Top Glass, Canada’s premier architectural glass show, returns April 29-30 in Mississauga—don’t miss this industry-leading event!
FIT Show is back! Installers and fabricators, don’t miss this key event to stay ahead in windows, doors, glass, hardware, and roofing solutions.
Articles
A recent study by BV Glas and Stuttgart University outlines three pathways to achieve climate neutrality in the glass industry by 2045.
‘glass technology live’ will showcase a promising new development along with many other innovations.
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.
Application to cantilevered balustrades
This paper explains the most common types of visual distortion from the glass production process and considers a virtual prototyping approach.
Investigations of different positions of the sphere and the satellite and their effect on stress distribution are studied. Both, experimental observations and computational FEM simulations are compared.
Within the large material class “glass”, different types have the amorphous structure as well as the time-dependent glass transformation behavior in common.
Comparisons with Prony series approach.
In this paper, the Sandwich Theory of effective thickness is applied to the evaluation of multilaminate glass fin stability for in-plane flexure.
In this study, the profound reasons behind the main benefits of glass preheating by increased convection in automotive windshields (WS)/ sunroof (SR) production are opened.
This paper investigates the influence of Possion´s Effect on the accuracy and applicability of the used linear elastic Euler-Bernoulli beam theory for the determination of the tensile bending strength of thin glass.
