US demand to rise 8.2% annually through 2017 Demand for high performance flat glass products in the US is forecast to rise 8.2 percent per year to $9.2 billion in 2017, equivalent to 910 million square feet. This will represent a ...
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One of the best-backed players in the smart glass industry, Sage Electrochromics Inc., is making some of its first deliveries from the world's largest electrochromic glazing plant, one capable of producing up to 4 million square feet of ...
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US demand for high-performance flat glass products is forecast to rise 4.4 percent per year to 910 million square feet in 2017, valued at nearly $9.2 billion. This will represent a substantial improvement from the performance of the ...
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U.S. demand for high-performance flat glass products is forecast to rise 4.4 percent per year to 910 million square feet in 2017, valued at nearly $9.2 billion, according to a report released yesterday by the Freedonia Group. This will ...
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Glass or window and door pundits who have hoped for a Moore’s Law like effect to hit our industry and consistently drive technological advances in a timely manner may finally be in luck. Oh, we may not realize the speed or intensity ...
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Sage Electrochromics announced the first customer shipments from its new high-volume manufacturing plant. The plant is the largest electrochromic manufacturing plant in the world, capable of producing more than 4 million square feet of EC ...
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NFRC Expands Ratings to Allow Certain Shading Devices April 12, 2013 Organizations At its spring meeting this past week, the National Fenestration Rating Council’s board of directors approved changes to NFRC 100 and NFRC 200, ...
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SAGE, the world’s leading manufacturer of dynamic glass for windows, skylights and curtain walls, is giving visitors of Ecobuild in London the opportunity to experience firsthand its electronically tintable glass and glazing ...
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Guardian SunGuard EC, developed in cooperation with View, is an advanced technology glazing that helps commercial architects achieve net zero buildings. SunGuard ECchanges in visible light transmittance and solar heat gain to ...
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At the Glass Association of North America’s (GANA) Annual Conference in San Diego yesterday, three unique industry-related perspectives from three different occupational fields discussed whether using less glass in building ...
BASF is to showcase chemistry's contribution to sustainable construction at the BAU 2013 trade fair in Munich from January 14 - 19, 2013. Based at Hall A4/stand 303, the company presents numerous solutions, including products to raise the ...
Sage Saint-Gobain Europe will regroup senior managers from Saint-Gobain with many years of architectural glass industry experience, according to an announcement from the company. The specification team will be headed up by Kirk Ratzel, ...
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SAGE Electrochromics, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of dynamic glass, located in Faribault, Minn., today announced it has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, against View, Inc. ...
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Saint-Gobain, in cooperation with the U.S. Green Building Council – Northern California Chapter, announced the winners of the NOVA Innovation Competition 2012, two of which are dynamic glass companies. The NOVA Innovation Competition ...
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After a final “speed dating” round, Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the habitat and construction markets, and the U.S. Green Building Council – Northern California Chapter (USGBC-NCC) announced today the three winners of ...
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