Archive for the ‘glass’ Category

Meshglass

Meshglass
Meshglass is a flexible tiling system comprised of stained-glass and mirror pieces connected to a fiberglass mesh backing. Designed to overlay complex, curvilinear surfaces, Meshglass is fabricated using specially developed software that allows custom patterns to be generated directly via the company’s...
July 7th, 2006 | feature, glass | Read More

Power Glass

Power Glass
XsunX has developed very thin translucent coatings and films that create large area monolithic solar cell structures. This semi-transparency makes their so-called Power Glass glazing desirable for placing over glass, plastics, and other see-through structures. Using patented processes, such as reel-to-reel...
May 18th, 2006 | feature, glass | Read More

IQ Glass

IQ Glass
Spaces clad primarily in glass are often poorly insulated and uncomfortably cold during winter months. Condensation is also a problem when single-pane glass encounters a large temperature differential. Although glass technology has improved considerably, the low surface temperature of traditional glass...
March 1st, 2006 | glass | Read More

Activ

Activ
Pilkington’s Activ glass uses the power of the sun to clean itself. Activ is manufactured with the same advanced pyrolytic technology used to produce glass panels for electronic and photovoltaic solar-cell applications. Activ loosens dirt, gradually breaking down organic residue with a special PhotoActiv...
February 3rd, 2006 | glass | Read More

SmartGlass

SmartGlass
Suspended Particle Device (SPD) technology is a “switchable” light-control technology that has numerous performance and cost advantages over other technologies. SPD-Smart products allow you to instantly and precisely control how clear or dark glass or plastic is, and to easily adjust the light transmission...
January 31st, 2006 | glass | Read More

3D Studio Line

3D Studio Line
With the increased sophistication of glass-fabrication technologies, flatness and clarity have typically been the most sought-after traits in architectural glass. However, glass is increasingly explored as a multidimensional, irregular, and textured material. Enlarging the profile and depth of glass...
January 24th, 2006 | glass | Read More

T-OPAL

T-OPAL
Our longing for summer and sunshine has not been answered too often this year. But no sooner do the sun’s rays make their way through the clouds, complaints abound about the heat and dazzling light this generates in our modern glass buildings. Venetian blinds, shutter blinds and curtains are rolled...
January 7th, 2006 | glass | Read More

Icestix

Icestix
British Columbia-based Interstyle makes several lines of beautiful hand-crafted, etched glass mosaics which are impervious to liquids and vapors, resistant to fading or discoloring, simple to install with standard tools, frostproof, and easy to clean. The tiles come in mesh-mounted sheets which can be...
November 10th, 2005 | glass | Read More

Glass-Coated Plastic

Glass-Coated Plastic
Plastics come in many forms. They are used to make boats, magnifiers, skis and all manner of household items. Transparent plastic sheet panels would be ideal in the manufacture of windows or headlamps of cars, for example, and tinted plastic foils could more readily be used to protect against the sun...
November 8th, 2005 | glass | Read More

Reapor

Reapor
Insulation materials used for sound insulation, as thermal cladding and in fire prevention play an important role in modern building. Ever since asbestos and a number of other building materials were identified as hazardous, demand has continually grown for non-fibrous building materials that do not...
November 5th, 2005 | glass | Read More
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