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After a six-year break, the LiSEC Technology Days took place again in Bad Arolsen, Germany, on 25th and 26th June 2025.
At this year’s Vitrum exhibition, Softsolution – LiteSentry will proudly present the European premiere of its next-generation inspection system: Osprey®25.
Glasstech Mexico, the foremost B2B glass technology expo in Latin America, opened today at Centro Citibanamex, showcasing cutting-edge solutions across the flat glass, doors, windows, and aluminium-profile sectors.
On 1 September 2025, Daniel Feische will move to the Occupational Safety & Health and Glass Technologies portfolios as the Director and will be fully responsible as of 1 December.
Registration is now open for the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) Western Region Virtual Summit, taking place online September 10.
GlassBuild America 2025 is heading to Orlando for the first time this November — and it’s bringing fresh energy, exciting features and can’t-miss opportunities.
A great opportunity to explore the future of flat glass automation
“Hurricane Glazing – Impact Performance & Beyond” | August 13, 2025 | 12:00 PM ET
FIT Show organisers are thrilled to announce the winners of the FIT Show 2025 Marketing Awards, marking the event’s biggest and most competitive year yet.
FENSTERBAU FRONTALE has a new director with immediate effect: Chiara Sträßner is taking charge of the organization of the world's leading trade fair for windows, doors and facades.
The Glass and Glazing Federation’s (GGF) North West and North Wales regional meeting took place on Tuesday, 8th July, marking an exceptionally busy yet highly productive day.
Program designed for glass fabrication company executives, technical leaders and plant personnel
Registration is now open for Canada’s premier architectural glass event, returning to Calgary on October 20–21 with expert talks, exclusive tours, and industry celebration.
Get ready for VITRUM25 with all the latest updates, key event details, and how to make the most of your visit.
From June 12 to 14, the CMS facility in Zogno (BG) hosted the CMS Open House – three days dedicated to innovation in glass processing, featuring live demonstrations, technical insights, and valuable meetings with customers and partners.
Articles
Glass finishing is a key element of modern glass processing. Over the past decades it has developed into a precise science allowing the properties of glass surfaces to be treated selectively.
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.
