A number of glass companies traveled to
Las Vegas last week to take part in GlassBuild America. While the show
primarily targets glazing companies, exhibitors reported that they were
also seeing a few architects walking the show, and were featuring
products that can be specified for both interior and exterior
applications.
Chris Dolan, director of commercial glass
products for Guardian Industries, said the company was featuring its
partnerships with two advanced glazing companies, Soladigm
Electrochromic Glazing and Pythagoras Solar. One of the featured
products was the electrochromic Sunguard EC, which it is marketing with
Soladigm, as well as Guardian’s PVGU photovoltaic glass, marketed with
Pythagroas Solar.
“There is tremendous interest in
buildings that approach net zero,” said Dolan. “Architects are looking
for products like these … [as they] make more options available.”
Guardian was also featuring switchable
privacy glass, which goes from opaque to clear. The product can also be
produced with colorful interlayers and is ideal for applications such as
board rooms, as well as hotels and restaurants.
Imagery in glass continues to be popular,
and Todd Danciak, director of marketing with AGC Glass Company North
America, said the company’s Krystal Images decorative glass products
were receiving a lot of interest, “especially because of the clarity of
the pictures we’re able to display,” he said.Decorative wasn’t the only
feature in the company’s booth.
“We’re introducing a new triple silver coating that’s coming to the market the first quarter of 2013,” said Danciak.
PPG was also busy with a number of new
products for architectural glazing. Glenn Miner, director, construction,
flat glass, said they were announcing the new Solarban 67, a solar
control low-E product that will be available for commercial shipments in
the first quarter of next year. Miner says it has a neutral appearance
for both transmittance and reflective colors.
Also on the decorative side, Walker Glass
featured six new designs in its Nuances line of acid-etched glass.
Danik Dancause said before narrowing it down to the final six, the
company started with 600 designs.“We asked architects and designers
which ones they liked,” he explained of the study completed to select
the new options.
“We found that lines/classic designs are
what [architects and designers] are looking for,” he said. These styles
also include the company’s first double-sided pattern, which Dancause
said renders somewhat of a 3-dimensional effect and also received a lot
of attention.
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