FLACHGLAS Wernberg is completely fit for the future with its new A+W software solution FLACHGLAS Wernberg’s product range is highly complex, for it also includes the areas of facades and interior glass. With more than 600 employees, the company produces glass for ambitious glazing projects, something that only a few...
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Senior officials from both UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) visited COP26 on Science and Innovation Day. Glass Futures’ exhibitions at COP26 demonstrated revolutionary climate action in line with the Presidency programme, which indicates that...
New Xensation® Flex is ultra-thin glass (UTG) flexible enough to bend around one’s finger after processing and available in mass production. SCHOTT, the inventor of specialty glass, is pushing the boundaries of human imagination with its flexible glass line-up. The international technology group now introduces...
The laws of physics cannot really resolve it: glass that features a low-E or another type of wear layer to improve its insulating properties, has a significantly reduced heat transfer coefficient, which improves the pane’s thermal insulation. The down side, however, is that the layer minimises the pane’s level of...
AGC Glass Europe, a European leader in flat glass, and Citrine Informatics are collaborating to use artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of next-generation glass. Citrine Informatics is a technology platform that harnesses the power of AI to bring new materials to market faster, and capture...
In autumn, the first glass that is effective against laser microphones will be presented. This privacy glass will be available as double or triple insulating glass unit or as monolithic laminated glass and can be used for both simple windows and complex whole-glass facades. Laminated glass can also be used for...
Walker Glass is honored to receive USGlass Magazine’s 2019 Green Award for its AviProtek® E bird-safe low-e coated glass. This award reinforces Walker’s position as the recognized leader in the bird-safe glass market. The 2019 Green Award follows several award-winning projects which incorporate Walker’s innovative...
How Guardian Glass developed glass that reduces bird-glass collisions around the world One picturesque afternoon in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sheldon Davis, Guardian Industries’ vice president of research and technology, took a stroll with Alex Sobolev, a Guardian industrial designer, through the city’s bustling downtown...
Security at your fingertips Biometric systems are constantly improving: a new scanner from innovator DERMALOG can read both fingerprints and electronic IDs for the first time. What’s it made of? CONTURAX® glass from SCHOTT. Brunei was one of the first nations in the world to introduce an electronic ID card integrating...
Although glass is thought of as being relatively eco-friendly because it’s recyclable, the fact is that a lot of it doesn’t get recycled – this is particularly true of small fragments, that are too fiddly to sort. Now, however, scientists are suggesting that glass waste could be used to make concrete...