Industry Trends As the industry responds to customer demand for style variants and niche models, with shorter development times, Pilkington Automotive helps customers engineer value into vehicle glazing - cutting costs in parallel with product enhancement. Shortening development time.

Blindex®, a reference in the Brazilian glass industry for over 70 years, is the newest sponsor of the social project “Banho Solidário Sampa”, which offers hot baths, clean clothes, shoes, beard and haircuts, manicures and pedicures, books, toys, hygiene kits, listening and food for homeless people in São Paulo.

Insights. The market benchmark for transparency in glass. Featured Article. 17 Feb 2021. Pilkington Optiwhite™ extra clear glass, which is produced in our plants in Italy, Germany, UK and the USA, is the most coveted product in the glass industry today. Why?

Glass Technology. The Float Process. At the heart of the world's glass industry is the float process - invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1952 - which manufactures clear, tinted and coated glass for buildings, and clear and tinted glass for vehicles.

Pilkington Automotive has pioneered techniques that have led to major industry firsts such as; the production of the wraparound windshield. the S-bend backlight. solar reflective automotive glazing. full vehicle encapsulated glazing systems. electrically heated filament windshields.

The flat glass sector is expected to play a crucial role in the decarbonisation of Europe and its high-performance products will be essential in contributing to the EU's legally binding targets to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. The opportunities and challenges for our industry are highlighted in the Glass for Europe ...

Energy issues are key to the building glass industry, as glass products can make an important contribution to combating climate change. Different types of glass we have developed over the years, especially low-emissivity double glazing and solar control glazing, can significantly reduce the need for heating and cooling in buildings, thereby ...

The Step-by-step Manufacturing of Float Glass Watch the magic of this science-based process begins to unfold, in a series of stages on a float line that may be nearly half a kilometre long.

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