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Solstice Glass, from Cantifix, can help regulate sleep cycles using natural light, while offering protection from the sun’s harmful rays. Cantifix, which produced the range for domestic and commercial construction, brought structural glazing to the market almost 30 years ago. For the past five years, the company – run by brothers Charlie, Matthew and William Sharman – has sponsored research...
TuffX recently processed it’s one millionth linear metre of glass, on the Bovone ELB 12 HS straight line edging machine installed at its Merseyside manufacturing plant 24 months ago. This milestone represents the consistently high customer demand that TuffX has experienced for its processed glass products, even while seven months into a global pandemic, the company said. When TuffX purchased...
Morley Glass and Glazing has launched an updated brochure for its Uni-Blinds product range. The 96-page brochure provides information on the company’s ScreenLine integral blind systems, including sections covering the different control options, colour choices and information regarding different glazing specifications, as well as an outline of the company’s sustainability and corporate social responsibility credentials. The brochure features lifestyle images...
Saint-Gobain Glass has launched new textured glass for the residential and commercial glazing markets, which provides high levels of privacy without sacrificing natural light. Visiosun features parallel lines that create a reeded glass effect. It offers high transparency, allowing large amounts of natural light to flood into a room, combined with high privacy levels. Saint-Gobain Glass market manager Jenni Young...
Bohle has unveiled the new MasterTrack ST shower door system, designed to offer simple and easy installation and effortless operation, while is also ideally suited to corner and recessed applications. The flexible system eliminates any requirement to process glass on site, tapping into the same principles that underpin the easy-fit MasterTrack internal sliding door. It’s suitable for installation as either...
AGC has launched Stopray Vision‑70, its new solar control glass. With a selectivity of 2.0, AGC's new Stopray Vision‑70 solar control glass, and its toughenable version Stopray Vision‑70T, outperform all conventional double silver products, the company said. These products are very colour neutral (Ra,D = 97), let in maximum daylight (TL = 70%) and, with a solar factor of just 35%, reduce the air conditioning...
OnLevel has launched Banana Slide, a pre-assembled sliding door system for 50kg and 80kg glass applications. Banana Slide is a sleek sliding door system with clean lines and a minimal appearance. It’s perfect for creating unimposing partitions and light-filled interior spaces, the company said. The system uses ‘clamping technology’ to provide a permanent connection between roller and carriage. Doors can...
Creating a streamlined finish when installing glass balustrades has never been easier, or safer, than with TaperLoc from CRL, the company said, which now has a new base shoe to create a flush fit. Allowing quick and easy slab edge installations, TaperLoc can now be installed flush with the slab edge and from the safe side, without the need for...
Rolltech has launched it revamped website, and updated an app that calculates the Psi value of IG units. Optimised with a responsive layout that ensures convenient, versatile cross-device navigation, the new Rolltech website caters to glass specialists who need to evaluate information crucial to producing high-performance insulating glass. It displays warm edge solutions from Glass Alliance, the international network that...
Edgetech has launched an improved version of its Super Spacer T-Spacer. Super Spacer T-Spacer SG is a metal-free, silicone-based warm edge spacer made of structural foam with an integrated desiccant, that’s been designed for commercial use. On demanding glazing projects using extra-large glass panes, its durable edge seal “guarantees decades of exceptional performance and stability”, the company said. T-Spacer SG...
Installers and specifiers tasked with fitting appropriate safety measures to guard against the spread of Covid-19 in work places and public settings can find a wide range of appropriate solutions in the new Protective Screen and Transaction Hardware brochure from CR Laurence. From portable partition screens for reception areas and office desks, to floor-mounted moveable screens for hairdressers and restaurants,...
Eco-friendly, solar-powered integral blinds from Morley Glass and Glazing have been given a stylish makeover and an energy efficiency boost, the company has announced. Renamed the W Smart system, the former W Swipe system is a range of venetian, pleated or black-out blinds encapsulated within a 20mm, 22mm, 27mm, 29mm or 32mm cavity, equipped with a 3.6V internal motor, and...
AGC has published new video to promote Pyrobel by AGC, a fire-resistant glass. The short promotional film shows what goes into making Pyrobel, as well as an insight into the business’s priorities: providing solutions, quality and service, and respect for the environment. Pyrobel supports customers worldwide with over 40 years of technical expertise in fire testing and certification, and the...
By Gary Dean, managing director of OnLevel UK. OnLevel has been busy developing products with added value; the latest products growing in popularity are the Empire State and Smooth AR post railing systems. The Empire State Post System is a completely pre-assembled post system for all-glass balustrade systems. It features the Kronos Glass Clamp, which is quick and easy to...
BetweenGlassBlinds has launched a redesigned website at www.betweenglassblinds.co.uk. The new site features a streamlined, modern design, improved functionality, and easy access to essential information to help residential and commercial customers in the selection of their products, the company said. Director Mark Nash said: “The last few months have been a challenging time for everyone. We made the decision to look...
Eyrise has launched an experience lab at its newly transformed headquarters to showcase the extended capabilities of liquid crystal glass, and to drive research into smart glass innovation. Based at Veldhoven in the Netherlands, the glazing company uses proprietary liquid crystal technology to manufacture energy-saving windows that can be tinted to provide instant solar shading without compromising on natural daylight. Recent research by Elementa Consulting revealed liquid crystal glass has...
AGC Glass Europe now offers Cradle to Cradle Certified silver laminated glass. Since beginning its Cradle to Cradle journey in 2010, AGC said it has been committed to continuous improvement, and today offers a wide range of Cradle to Cradle Certified silver and bronze products. Stratobel laminated glass provides protection from injuries, falls, break-ins and vandalism. Stratophone laminated glass ensures...
CRL’s Office Partition System offers a creative solution for modern interior designs. The standard dry-glazed system provides maximum transparency and an elegant appearance, and the profiles can be fixed to ceilings, floors, walls and door frames for a complete look. Open-plan office environments have a number of benefits, in practical terms creating the sense of light and space and also...
Custom Glass has got its fleet up and running following a series of setbacks. Prior to the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the Liverpool-based company had already suffered a devastating fire at its premises, followed by one of its new trucks being badly damaged in a site accident during the rebuilding. Now repaired and hard at work, that vehicle was one of...
Modelling by Bohle suggests that Covid-19 cough and sneeze-guard screens, plus Covid-related office re-fits, represent a £multi-million new market for the glass processing sector. Far from representing the end of the offices, UK companies ultimately want staff to return to work but will, according to analysts, need to cut staff numbers by 30%-50%, as well restructuring space to meet social...