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For four days, Düsseldorf was the focus of the international glass industry. From 22 to 25 October 2024, 1257 exhibitors from 50 countries showcased their latest machines, systems and products for glass manufacturing and processing. The number of trade visitors totalled 32,000 from 121 countries.
The new partnership between Saint-Gobain Glass and Kvadrat Shade aims to optimally coordinate glazing and shading - two essential elements of modern facades - in order to fully utilise their technical potential. Here are the details.
New window technology enables solar power to be generated directly from insulating glass. A prototype has now been installed and tested by Walter Fenster in Kassel in Germany.
Joachim Oberrauch, head of the South Tyrolean window manufacturer Finstral, talks about the importance of quality and sustainability in the construction industry and the role of the window industry in the European Green Deal.
With Wicline 75 Industrial Design (ID), Wicona presents an aesthetic and sustainable alternative to steel windows. According to the developer, this new product is ideally suited for the renovation of historical buildings as well as for new construction projects in industrial design.
Matthias Seel from the University of Darmstadt in Germany explains the current developments in flat glass and why he is certain that glass for facades and the building industry will take on even more functions and become even thinner and stronger.
Saint-Gobain has signed an agreement to sell its Swiss glass processing business to the German group Aequita. The glass processors of Glassolutions Kreuzlingen in Switzerland will then become part of the Vandaglas Group, the glass division of Aequita.
The Hydro Group completed the acquisition of Hueck, manufacturer of aluminium systems for facades, on 28 February 2023, following approval by the competition authorities in Germany and Austria. The acquisition strengthens Hydro Building Systems' position in Europe and increases its presence.
The architect Zaha Hadid set new standards in design and form with her futuristic architecture. For a long time, her dynamic buildings were considered unfeasible in terms of construction technology, but then came the breakthrough. One of her last works is the Argos design house in Graz. Facade glass from Isolar is installed there.
Under the name AWS Optimized, Schüco is presenting its standard aluminium system to architects and metal fabricators in a variant with even better U values – right up to passive house standard.
Window installation at 2,244 metres also places particularly high demands on the products. Several superlatives apply to the mountain station of the Karwendel cable car, and the window installation was also particularly challenging - but with illbruck sealing components, the elements could be installed quickly.
With the eT-Litocran700, Eurotech introduces a newly designed installation device that has an extremely high level of 3D fine control, which allows very fast and, above all, precise installation of windows as well as glass and facade elements.
The supply shortage of silicon is also posing challenges for window manufacturers: Silicon is the key raw material of silicone, which are needed, for example, for direct glazing - the bonding of the insulating glass pane directly into the window frame. H.B. Fuller | Kömmerling offers an alternative.
Gutmann recently presented its new wood-aluminium element facade for high-rise buildings. Behind the two-stage installation lies the innovation: the eventual structural performance is only achieved when the aluminium chassis is connected to the timber support shell.
Two-stage installation means driving to the construction site twice. At first, this sounds like extra work, but it's not - on the contrary. Here in this article, you will learn 12 advantages for the two-stage installation process with an efficient pre-frame.
When glass panes are used in the glass and window industry, vacuum cups are usually used. It is not uncommon for everything to seem fine at first after the glass has been installed, but when the glass pane condenses, suction marks become visible that cannot be easily removed. To avoid this, euroTech has developed a suction plate cover. GW-News wanted to know from Head of Sales, Michael Renger, how this works.
Manufactured and constructed according to the current state of the art, wooden windows are very durable building elements with very good structural-physical properties and excellent conditions for thermal insulation.
Laminated glass is made of two pieces of regular or tempered glass sandwiched around a layer of clear plastic film (PVB).
Insulating glass (IG) consists of two or more glass panes separated by an air or gas-filled space to reduce heat transfer/loss across the windows or doors (in case of glass doors) of the building envelope.
The U-value assesses the rate of heat loss or gain through all the layers of the combined elements that make up a building component such as a wall, floor or roof.
The production of slim profiles for more daylight also poses challenges for machine manufacturers and suppliers. Homag offer a completely new window concept:
In this article, we explain how the thermal separation in metal facades, windows and doors can be optimized using Ensinger insulating bars made of glass fibre reinforced plastic.
