Production of both products in the UK comes after a sustained period of growth for solar control products. Pilkington UK has seen sales of its Pilkington Suncool™ range increase by 47 per cent since 2016. Leo Pyrah, product manager for solar control products at Pilkington UK, said: “Manufacturing these products in St Helens reaffirms our ...

Managing Director of Pilkington UK Neil Syder spoke exclusively to Glass Worldwide about taking up the family trade, why the company that he joined as a school-leaver still excites him and how innovation and collaboration with bodies such as Glass Futures and British Glass are crucial to the long-term prosperity of the flat glass sector. The full version of this article appears in the Nov/Dec ...

This is reflected by the fact that we now have products listed in the London Underground approved product directory.” The Elizabeth line will serve 41 accessible stations, 31 of them upgraded, including all three terminal rail stations at Heathrow and services to Reading. It will boost central London’s rail capacity by 10 per cent, bringing ...

Pilkington OptiView™ Ultra, an anti-reflective and highly transparent glass by the NSG Group, has launched in the UK to support architects specifying for the retail and leisure sectors. The high performance anti-reflective glass can reduce visible light reflectance to less than 1%, compared to 8% typically provided by standard glass.

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Pilkington Texture Glass Warwick™ is a random pattern which has implications when cutting the glass down into finished sizes. If a pane is small enough, potentially there could be no evidence of the pattern at all. Therefore it is important when cutting and optimising this glass that the overall appearance of the finished pane is considered so that the design is central to the pane.

Pilkington Activ™ Self-Cleaning Glass. After years of research and development leading glass manufacturer Pilkington has introduced the Pilkington Activ ™ range of products. The range has products which combine both self-cleaning and solar control properties, making them highly desirable amongst homeowners looking for the ultimate in glass ...

Specifiers have also reported an increase in demand for other specialist glazing products. A quarter (25%) have seen an increased requirement for acoustic glass like Pilkington Optiphon™ , while 23% have reported a surge in demand for self-cleaning glass such as Pilkington Activ™ in the wake of the pandemic.

It meets stringent EN 1096-2 standards, which certifies the products as able to withstand challenging outdoor weather conditions and abrasion. The range is coated ‘on-line’, meaning the anticorrosive coating is applied while the glass is still hot, rather than as a post-manufacture spray like many other products on the market with similar properties.

The manufacturer introduces Pilkington Mirai™ as four in five (79%) architects say clients are more concerned about the embodied carbon of building products than they were five years ago, according to a new study by the glassmaker**. Pilkington Mirai™ can be offered as a low carbon alternative to regular float glass, with no difference in performance, quality, or aesthetic appearance.