Expertise Hub Pilkington have been at the forefront of glass manufacture for over 200 years. But you won’t just find our products in windows. We’re also at the cutting-edge of digital technology, with our smart glass being used in touch screens around the world. From the latest ‘head up display’ technology for windscreens, to trusted fire-resistant glass. But we won’t stop there. Our ...

Corporate Information NSG Group manufactures and sells glass in the UK & Ireland under the Pilkington brand name. For more information about the NSG Group visit www.nsg.com . For NSG Group Global addresses click here.. For Press and Media Relations click here.

Expertise Hub. Blog Post. 29 May 2019. A Transatlantic collaboration built on expertise and innovation. For over 25 years, Pilkington has proudly been a partner with W&W Glass, one of the largest metal and glass companies in the New York metropolitan area and the largest supplier of structural glass systems in the entire USA. It’s a partnership built on trust, close collaboration and a ...

For specifications on the move, Spec-it! can also be found in the Spectrum app for iOS and Android devices. Easy search for other criteria As well as key parameters such as light transmittance, U value and g value, Spec-it! also allows you to search on acoustics, safety, security and glass thickness.

What Makes The Perfect Home . How many of us would say that we live in the perfect house? That’s just one of the questions we wanted to find the answer to when we commissioned a new study of homeowners in the UK.

It was during Medieval times that the use of glass was first experimented with – being widely used as a decorative feature, and not just as a means of letting light in.

To do that, we call on all the experience and expertise we’ve gained from almost 200 years of producing glass. It’s a heritage that gives us unrivalled knowledge of how glass performs in the field, and has also helped us create specialised processes that test the performance of our products to their limits. From wind-resistance to impact testing to glass that’s better for the environment ...

Inside the Pilkington testing facility at our R&D Centre in Lathom. We want our customers to feel confident that Pilkington products are Best in Glass, so we go above and beyond when it comes to testing and rigour.

Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager at Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, discusses the revision of BS 6262, a key document for the glass and glazing industry, and what implications it might have for manufacturers, fabricators, installers and designers.

The expertise within Pilkington UK is vital to this specialist product development, and it’s here that Steve Bond, Technical & Customer Support Manager for Fire Protection, plays a critical role. Steve has responsibility for the development of Pilkington's range of fire-resistant products – often through close collaboration with customers, architects and developers. Here he explains how ...