Rooflights Roof conversions are proving increasingly popular with home owners given the benefits they offer in terms of both space and property value. One of the latest home design trends is using glass to allow as much natural lighting into your home as possible, and rooflights, which let in unobstructed light from the highest part of the sky ...

Rooflights Designers are incresingly specifying larger glass roofs for cars. The parts, termed Cielo roofs, are two or three times the size of traditional sunroof and increase the feeling of space and light within the vehicle.

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Solar control Reducing heat from the sun. It is important to note that angled roof lights provide a benefit in energy efficiency since they gain more from the free heat provided by the sun than vertical windows.

Overview Pilkington SuperGrey™ and Pilkington Dark Grey™ are low-reflective body-tinted glasses which offer dramatic, deep cool grey appearance, increasing visual privacy and dramatically reducing read-through from interior shading devices.. Pilkington SuperGrey™ combines stunning exterior aesthetics and unsurpassed interior glare control with the best solar control performance of any ...

High quality glass production starts with the float process, developed by Pilkington and now the industry standard. Automotive glass production includes pre-processing, toughening, laminating, encapsulation, extrusion and assembly, adding functionality.

Pilkington Activ™ Blue - overview. Pilkington Activ™ Blue is an on-line coated body-tinted, self-cleaning and medium performance solar control glass, in an attractive blue colour. Its surface #1 self-cleaning coating has photo-catalytic and hydrophilic properties. The unique blue colour helps to keep internal temperatures cool whilst still maintaining excellent light transmittance, low ...

Glazing Systems The task of the glazing supplier does not end when the glass is shaped. NSG Group also provides the vehicle assembler with a variety of glazing systems, each designed to simplify the glazing installation process.

Self-cleaning Glass NSG Group made a significant step in the glass industry with the development of Pilkington Activ™, the first dual-action self-cleaning glass.The unique dual-action of the Pilkington Activ™ coating uses the forces of nature to help keep the glass free from dirt, giving not only the practical benefit of less cleaning, but also clearer, better-looking windows.

Take high quality sand, soda ash, limestone, saltcake and dolomite and melt at white heat to a highly viscous consistency. Let the mixture digest for a time - and you are well on the way to making one of the world's most important materials.