German car manufacturer Volkswagen has started rolling out 3D smart glasses as standard equipment at its Wolfsburg plant in North Germany. The glasses are given to the plant logistics personnel who are using them on voluntary basis for ...
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PPG Industries has completed its previously announced acquisition of Cuming Microwave Corporation based in Avon, Massachusetts, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Cuming-Lehman Chambers, Inc., based in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Financial ...
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PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group produced the transparencies for the S-97 RAIDER rotorcraft prototype rolled out by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. The 14-square-foot windshields are polycarbonate laminates for high impact ...
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Safety Tip Extension springs should always be restrained with a safety cable that ties it to a solid point on the horizontal door track. This will ensure that it doesn't 'fly-off' in case the pulley, cable, or the spring itself breaks ...
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Jamil Baghdachi, professor of engineering technology at Eastern Michigan University has been inducted as one of the 2014 Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS recognized the Fellows in August during the Society’s ...
Central Glass, a parent company of Carlex Glass, announced that it has finalized pending acquisitions to expand Carlex’s business operations. Central Glass has officially acquired all of the outstanding shares of two subsidiaries of ...
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Sika has announced that half of all the cars produced worldwide - approximately 40 million vehicles per year - contain one of its products. One in four car windshields is adhesively bonded using Sika products. These “invisible” ...
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PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group is designing windshields for the KC-390 military transport aircraft that will be the largest glass windshields PPG has produced and the industry’s first to have a compound bent ...
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According to a new market research report "Smart Glass market by technology (Electrochromics, SPD, Liquid Crystal, Microblinds, Thermographic and Photochromics), by application (Architectural, Transportation, Solar power generation, ...
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American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor has issued a voluntary recall on 4,532 Ford E-150, E-250, E-350, and E-450 vehicles of certain model year 2011 in the US over safety issues related to windshields. Due to improper manufacturing ...
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Clip-Lok SimPak has designed new boxes to transport heavy glass loads for a new line of heavy duty trucks. Clip-Lok boxes, which are part of heavy duty truck logistics, are flat-packable and reusable. The collapsible Clip-Lok 2P box, ...
Tags: Heavy Glass Loads, Packaging
ACDelco says its Specialty Winter Beam wiper blade has a sleek, wedge-shaped spoiler that clears away snow and ice. ACDelco has introduced a new Specialty Winter Beam wiper blade line designed to take on snow, ice and sub-zero ...
PPG Industries' aerospace coatings group has qualified AEROCRON(TM) electrocoat primer to SAE International's Aerospace Material Specification 3144 for anodic electrodeposition primer for aircraft applications. Qualifying Aerocron primer ...
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The realisation was as surprising as it was momentous. Toledo, long known as Glass City, needed glass, and it could no longer be manufactured locally quickly enough. So Toledo turned to China to make the 360 panels, weighing 589kg each, ...
A car's solar control glazing system is one which selectively absorbs, reflects and transmits solar energy to help keep the occupants comfortable, protect the interior and lesson the requirement for air conditioning, thereby reducing fuel ...
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