To acknowledge the essential role glass has and continues to have in society, the General Assembly of the United Nations has designated the year 2022 as the International Year of Glass (IYOG 2022). Glaston – a member of the International Commission on Glass (ICG), the organization behind the IYOG 2022 initiative –...
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A clean, safe and sustainable source of energy, solar continues to power the world at a faster pace than ever before.
The latest Glastory post is dealing with the trends in automotive display glass processing.
Do you still spend precious time doing the meticulous task of manually counting glass cullets for a glass fragmentation test? Or maybe your modern counting tool is not exactly the gold standard? If so, we have some good news for you!
I want you to think about your daily journey to work. Take a minute, visualize it – and then answer me this: How many glass surfaces did you see? Too many to remember?
Bent and tempered glass has long been of great interest to the market. The process of creating high-quality tempered bent glass has evolved over the years.
Limiting global warming require “rapid and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities.
Glass Performance Days 2021 was postponed because of the COVID-19 to February 16. – 18. 2022. Due to the 8-month delay, we have reopened the Jorma Vitkala Award of Merit nomination candidate form until January 10, 2022. Four years ago, at the Glass Performance Days (GPD) event in 2017, the Jorma Vitkala Award of...
Since late 2015, Glaston has been a small stockholder and development partner in a Californian start-up project Heliotrope with the goal to develop a nanotechnology based smart glass technology for the market. Glaston’s role in the project has been to develop a production line to produce smart glass developed by...
Automation opens door to greater capacity. From the left Wes Brigner, Director of Manufacturing, and Dan Wright, CEO/President of Paragon Tempered Glass “When we saw the CHAMP 25 line a few years ago, we knew this was the future we should pursue for our next round of capital expenditures,” says Dan Wright, CEO of...