Increased risk of unit failure warning
All window companies and sealed unit manufacturers want to avoid the risk of premature IG failure and the subsequent remedial costs incurred, Thermoseal Group’s Sales Director Mark Hickox has advised, and the correct specification...
Interactive 3D house is centrepiece of new combined Saint-Gobain site
An interactive 3D render of a house is the centrepiece of a new website launched by Saint-Gobain Glass, which combines the existing Tech Hub, Glassolutions and Saint-Gobain Glass websites into one.
The interactive house helps...
Inagas launches UK base for Sparklike calibration
Inagas, supplier of manual gas filling and testing equipment for the IGU market, is launching a UK based Calibration Centre to service all Sparklike Handheld devices in the UK.
Technical director Jonathan Kemp, pictured, said:...
AGC issues new EPDs in its 30% by ’30 pledge
AGC Glass Europe has released a renewed third-party verified Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for its Planibel Clealrite standard float glass and its first EPD for its low carbon glass as part of its interim...
Glass Futures is debut site for Siemens PCS Neo
Glass Futures, the £54million research centre under construction at St Helens, Merseyside, has become the first facility to adopt the PCS Neo digital control system from Siemens.
The project – funded by a combination of...
More investment planned at Cornwall
Cornwall Group is set to invest £5 million in plant, machinery and IT over the next 18 months. This figure is over and above the investment in the acquisition of Forward Glass last year.
“Plant...
EPD verifies lowest carbon claim for Pilkington Mirai
Pilkington Mirai has been independently verified as the lowest carbon glass of its kind.
The glass, developed by the company in collaboration with the Glass Futures organisation https://www.the-glazine.com/?p=10672, has been confirmed by a new Environmental...
Pilkington and Glass Futures back first flat glass carbon capture trial
Europe’s first carbon capture trial on a mainstream flat glass manufacturing plant has been launched by Leeds University-based C-Capture with Pilkington UK and Glass Futures at the manufacturer’s manufacturing site in St Helens.
The trial...
Guardian brings low-carbon Nexa to Europe
Guardian Glass is introducing Guardian Nexa, a lower-carbon float glass to the European market.
Nexa is said to reduce embodied carbon by more than 30% to approximately 7.0 kg CO2e/m2 for 4mm float glass.
It boasts a...
‘Business as usual’ as Cornwall Group acquires Forward Glass
Cornwall Group has acquired 100% of the share capital of £10million-sales Forward Glass, the Midlands’ largest independent toughened glass manufacturer and stock distributor, as well as its 100,000sqft site in Birmingham.
Cornwall chairman Mark Mitchell...
