SIA Glass AB Headquarter Building, Slöinge, Sweden

SIA Glass is a family company, producing ice-cream located at Slöinge in the central county of Halland, between Falkenberg and Halmstad. A member of BERTE Gruppen AB, the company belongs to the oldest family-owned company in Sweden.

Due to growth in the market and the company’s future aspirations to secure the production of ice-cream on an international playing field, SIA Glass decided to invest in expanding their facilities at the Slöinge plant. The total floor area of the new buildings is approximately 2,000 m2, encompassing a new office and laboratory. At the same time the warehouse area was expanded.

The architect was looking for a design of the façade where the building merged with the beautiful countryside surroundings. An all-glass façade became the natural choice. The office windows are IGUs with outer 6 mm Pilkington Suncool™ Brilliant 50/25, solar control glass. 8 mm Pilkington Spandrel E100 was used to give a continuous curtain wall effect to the façade.

The interior office partitions are glazed with toughened Pilkington Optifloat™ Clear, single safety glass in full height, fixed in wooden frames. Thanks to an open atria plan with lots of glass, a bright and pleasant working environment has been achieved.