Posts Tagged ‘openings’

Auto Door

Cleanliness, efficiency, compactness, cool-factor – for a variety of reasons, automatic doors have become a standard feature of Japanese shops. While the typical sliding star-trek style design has proven itself, the Tanaka Auto Door aims to improve upon a good concept. This new design entails strips...

March 20th, 2006 | metals | Read More

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

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

CoreTough

CoreTough is a composite panel that gets its strength from a structural honeycomb of various polymers. Manufactured by Transportation Systems Solutions using a proprietary core-forming process, CoreTough is lighter than most other structural panel materials and stronger than many honeycomb composites....

February 2nd, 2006 | plastic | Read More

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

Sun-Tec Film

Sun-Tec’s electroconductive transparent films contain small mounted electronic devices like LEDs and infrared sensors. Powered by voltages between 12 and 48 VDC, these 125-micron-thick films act as printed circuit boards and may be produced up to 137 3/4 by 49 1/4 inches (350 by 125 centimeters) in...

January 20th, 2006 | plastic | Read More