Glass futures appoints first Excellence site leaders
Glass Futures has begun recruiting director and other senior roles for its proposed £54million Global Centre of Excellence research, development and training facility to be built at St Helens on Merseyside.
Key managerial roles including...
Strategic collaboration to drive the market toward low-carbon façades.
Saint-Gobain Glassand Eckersley O’Callaghan have announced a strategic collaboration to support a circular economy of architectural glass, with the aim of increasing the volume of post-consumer glass being recycled into new float glass.
Both companies...
TuffX grows again with £500K site addition
TuffX is planning further growth with the purchase of a an adjoining unit at its Knowsley premises in addition to an ongoing 30,000ft2 extension that is due to be completed by the end of...
Saint-Gobain launches Visiosun textured privacy glass
Saint-Gobain Glass has announced the launch of Visiosun, a textured glass said to provide high levels of privacy without sacrificing natural light.
The privacy glass is recommended for interior design projects such as doors and...
Transforming Grade II-listed London building’s new rooftop dome
Eyrise dynamic solar shading glass has transformed a Grade II-listed London building’s new rooftop dome.
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an independent security and defence think tank, worked with bespoke structure design and build...
Pilkington and Cambridge Uni add a curve to conductive glass
Pilkington owner NSG Group and University of Cambridge are working together to find new ways of printing conductive materials onto wide areas of curved glass surfaces.
Dr Su Varma, R&D incubator academic programme director at...
Another green first for Pilkington with all-biofuel firing
Pilkington is claiming another world first towards net-zero glass production after a trial run of its furnace powered entirely by biofuel.
The four-day run produced 165,000sqft of what the company says is the lowest-carbon float...
Work begins on 39m glass flood defence for flood-hit Kendal
Construction has begun on a flood defence wall in Kendal, Cumbria, using a 35mm thick glass/interlayer laminate using Optiwhite and Activ glass from Pilkington UK as part of a scheme to protect more than...
‘UK’s biggest’ stock glass depot opened by Glassolutions
A new £1million stock glass distribution centre said to be UK’s largest at 40,000 sqft has been opened in Elland, West Yorkshire.
The Glassolutions Northern Hub replaces the group’s former premises in nearby Huddersfield and...
‘World’s first’ antimicrobial glass set to launch with third-party verification
Pilkington owner NSG Group is claiming a world first in glazing with SaniTise, an on-line coated glass with a photocatalytic coating, that provides antimicrobial properties, and is now poised to launch the product following...
