Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "In-depth Research on China LOW-E Glass Market, 2013-2017" report to their offering.
At present, the global major LOW-E glass manufacturers are Pilkington (U.K.), PPG (U.S.), Glaverbel (Belgium), and Saint-Gobain (France), the overseas market is controlled by above enterprises.
In the developed countries, LOW-E glass has been popularized in large scale, the utilization rate in Germany reached 92%, the rate in South Korea and Poland was 90% and 75% respectively. It is estimated that the LOW-E glass demand volume in the international market will exceed 1.5 billion square meters by 2017; in the next five years, the global LOW-E glass demand volume will increase at the average annual growth rate of more than 17%.
As of 2012, LOW-E glass output in China was 108 million square meters; China owns more than 60 off-line LOW-E coating production lines with the production capacity of about 66 million square meters, and about 20 coating lines are under construction or planned to be constructed, of which, more than 10 enterprises make use of CVD method or PCVD method to conduct LOW-E coated glass online production.
