Pilkington - The Definitive Fire-Rated Package
Pilkington Building Products - UK says that it provides the ultimate in fire-resistant glass, and works with specialist companies across the UK and Ireland to offer a comprehensive fire-resistant glass service. Between them they offer technical support and advice on key issues concerning application, fire safety regulation and design.
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Integrated Daylight Design
Scientific daylight planning of interior rooms is not always a simple task for architects and planners. Some of the questions involved are: what intensity of illumination will be required by the future users of the interior areas? A study by LichtLabors Bartenbach of Austria, commissioned by EUROGLAS, shows that integrated daylight design must take account of many factors.
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IT centralization in the glass industry is back! by Horst Mertes, Lisec Software USA
In the 1970s and early 1980s centralized IT systems involved monolithic IT organisations built around a large mainframe system that served a complete enterprise and IT staff members had no contact with the actual users. The constantly changing market, new technical infrastructures such as high speed WAN networks, affordable and powerful servers as well as educated system administrators bring IT centralization back into consideration.
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Glass Facades Go Beyond Skin Deep - Designers Stress the Importance of Integrating with Building Systems
Product developers, building owners and designers are taking a new look at high-performance glass facades as key in creating buildings with improved access to daylight, better indoor air quality and improved energy efficiency. But a facade that helps improve a building's interior environment and limits its loss of energy is not enough, say some sources. A building's skin should be a power generator rather than an energy liability.
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Ancient Windows - Modern Bends
Dennis Sumner snr reflects on his German double-glazing experiences and outlines his company's profile bending processes.
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Rostock is going to be the hub of the German window market in 2003
The window market in the regional planning region Mittleres Mecklenburg/Rostock (Rostock, Bad Doberan and Gustrow) is going to grow by 15.5% in terms of quantity in the year 2003.
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IC-Market Monitor Spot® 'Alternative Wood Materials' Published by InterConnection - Great Interest in Alternative Wood Materials for Window Manufacture
Over 80% of the window sector in the German-speaking countries shows interest in the possible uses of modified solid wood for window manufacture, in the case of extractable wood the figure is even close to 95%. However, there is still a great lack of information regarding the possible uses, as the latest study by the consultants of InterConnection shows.
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Controlling Solar Overheating in Buildings
Designers must now comply with regulations to limit solar overheating in buildings, as Paul Littlefair of BRE explains.
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CE Marking and the Sealed Unit Manufacturer
It is estimated that out of the 4000 manufacturers currently producing units, this figure could drop to between 1500 to 2000. So, for those that remain, the future should be good, just sit back and wait for the work to come in. THINK AGAIN, says Dave Frost
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Pilkington Activ™ - the explanation...
Unique Dual Action Technology: Despite its exceptional properties, Pilkington Activ™, the world's first self-cleaning glass, requires no unusual treatment or care procedures during processing, fitting or once installed. How does it work?
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How Many People does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
Quite a few, if the 'light bulb' you are talking about happens to be the massive Olympic Cauldron, and the Olympic Torch which lights it, at the recent Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
We have so far rounded up stories from the following companies involved in its manufacture.
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Blast-Resistant Windows at Pentagon Credited with Saving Lives
Following the September 11th, 2001 attack on The Pentagon, military leaders and Pentagon Renovation specialists credited blast resistant windows incorporating laminated glass and the steel structure that supported them with saving many lives. (The windows had already been installed in part of the building known as 'Wedge 1', as the first stage in a scheduled renovation).
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Practical Applications of Part M and its Implications for the Door Manufacturer
Phil Mundell, sales and marketing director for Sentinel Doors, discusses the practical application of Part M and its implications for the expanding role of the door manufacturer in helping to assess the needs of the disabled.
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Dilution of Fire Glazing Standards?
When clients and architects specify fire resistant glass for important areas, the duty of care does not stop with the suppliers. All fire resistant glass endures a rigorous testing programme before its availability on the market to make sure it meets the criteria set by the relevant standards.
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Big potential in the Austrian window market by realization of Kyoto-targets
The Austrian window market fell to a level of 2.6 Million units sold in 2001, which means a decrease in volume of 3.3% as compared to the previous year. In terms of value the decrease was somewhat less, but the net value of window units sold was approximately 608 Million, measured by the factory prices of manufacturers, excluding trade margins and costs of assembly. This means a decrease by 1.6% compared to 2000, as the latest market report by the consultants of InterConnection shows.
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Dupont's Benedictus Award won by Romantic Summer Pavilion in Burgundy, France
In the mid 1990s, an eighteenth-century folly near Avalon, in the Burgundy region of France, was converted into a small summer residence for a Dutch neurologist and his wife, an art historian.
Architect Dirk Jan Postel of Rotterdam was retained to build a laminated glass skylight for the converted folly in 1997.
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Bystronic Lenhardt UK Ltd and Saint-Gobain Ireland Revolutionise Irish Glass Market
The impetus of two new Bystronic Lenhardt UK Ltd installations at Saint-Gobain Glass Solutions Ireland is set to transform the Irish glass market. The two full production lines at Saint-Gobain Dockrell Glass, Dublin together with the semi-automatic IG line at Solaglas, Belfast are the first of their kind to be introduced in Ireland.
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Hot Stuff: Glass Fusing the Bohle Way
Fusing - a word you might now have already heard, but what is it in relation to the Glass Business?
Put simply, Glass Fusing is the process by which different coloured glasses are heated up and 'melted' together to produce decorative glass results. These can be both formed glass, such as bowls, lamp covers, glass art, or flat glass, such as decorative door panels or interior glass screens.
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Rostock is going to be the hub of the German window market in 2003
The window market in the regional planning region Mittleres Mecklenburg/Rostock (Rostock, Bad Doberan and Gustrow) is going to grow by 15.5% in terms of quantity in the year 2003.
The latest report from InterConnection reveals that this region will represent the most dynamic region in the German window market in the year 2003, followed by Landshut and Siegen.
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Glaverbel Produces 50 million square metres of New Generation Ecological Mirrors in Less Than 5 Years - Enough to Stretch 15,000 KM
The Glaverbel group set a new record when it produced its 50,000,000th square metre of Mirox New Generation Ecological (MNGE) mirror in January 2002. If lined up end to end, all of the 3.21m-wide mirror sheet produced would cover 15,000 km, stretching from Brussels, Belgium to Perth, Australia.
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Professional Business Management and State-of-the-Art Production Scheduling and Control from HANIC Software
German Software Producer HANIC is now actively marketing its range of software products for the glass industry in the UK and is well on track to supply overall solutions to well known British glass companies: clients already include CET and Regency Glass. 'I personally think that the main reason for this success is the high level of integration, the completeness of the system, the ease of use as well as the modern looks of the system', says the Export Director for HANIC Software.
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High-Temperature-Resistant Heating Elements in the Glass Industry
by Lars-Jöran Frisk and Bengt Linder, Kanthal AB, Sweden
Heating elements for the glass industry must be capable of resisting the high temperatures and aggressive atmospheres of its furnaces. They should also have a long lifetime. Only one material can do this - molybdenum disilicide (as used in Kanthal's Super elements). This article describes the introduction of this technology into glass manufacturing and describes the experience of some of some of the companies who use it.
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MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE
Romag recently won a contract in Nagoya, Japan to supply laminated glass panels on one of the most unusual projects that the company has ever been involved with.
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From Small Acorns: the David Salisbury story
David Salisbury began making garden benches and a few replacement wood windows back in the early 1980s but soon realised that the big growth market would be in traditional timber conservatories - an area which he believed was not well served by the few established manufacturers of timber products.
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