Eastman Chemical Company announced a global price increase for automotive grade polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayers effective January 1, 2014 or as contracts allow. Price increase announcements for Saflex automotive PVB grades on a square ...
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DuPont and Kuraray today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for DuPont to sell its Glass Laminating Solutions/Vinyls (GLS/Vinyls), a part of DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, to Kuraray for $543 million (U.S. ...
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Cal-West Specialty Coatings, Inc. has obtained a patent for a composition for the formation of a peelable protective coating on a surface, the composition is comprised of a liquid aqueous mixture or solution comprised of a polyvinyl butyral ...
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At the end of August, the last of the total of four production plants for TROSIFOL polyvinyl butyral (PVB) film were linked up to the new Mowital raw materials warehouse (PVB resin). The first plant has been supplied from there since the ...
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Gorilla Glass works great for smartphones, but what if you replaced all of car’s windows with this resilient stuff? Jeffrey Evenson, senior vice president of Gorilla Glass maker Corning, said the lighter material that is already ...
Starting today, Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE: EMN) will showcase advanced automotive glazing technologies at its booth during the 2013 Japanese Society of Automotive Engineering (JSAE) World Congress, held May 22 through May 24 in ...
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Guardian Industries now offers interior designers and architects a product solution that enables them to design with glass without sacrificing privacy: Guardian Reveal, the company’s newest interior glass innovation. Guardian ...
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Trulite's laminated glass is produced in-house at one of our eight manufacturing plants. The process encompasses two or more pieces of glass that are permanently bonded together with a polyvinyl butyral interlayer (PVB) by the introduction ...
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Controlling solar heat gain in buildings is an ongoing challenge for design professionals, but a new PVB interlayer from Eastman Chemical Company, called Saflex® SG, offers significant advantages for those designing projects in hot ...
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Conventional polyvinyl butyral (PVB) in laminated safety glass blocks out almost all ultraviolet (UV) radiation up to a wavelength of about 400 nanometres (nm). In other words, the penetration of UV-A light is almost entirely prevented by ...
Bulletproof glass (also known as ballistic glass, transparent armor or bullet-resistant glass) is a type of strong but optically transparent material that is particularly resistant to being penetrated when struck by bullets, but like all ...
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Automakers began using laminated safety glass, also known as auto glass, for automobile windshields in 1927. To make laminated safety glass, the manufacturer sandwiches a thin layer of flexible clear plastic film called polyvinyl butyral ...
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New production plant for special TROSIFOL automotive glazing films to be ready for operation at the end of 2013 At its Troisdorf location, Kuraray Europe GmbH is investing some EUR 20 million in a new production line for TROSIFOL films ...
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The use of bullet proof glasses gained prominence in World War II and since then they've been extensively used in government buildings, corporate offices, banks, shopping stores, post offices, churches and schools for security reasons. In ...
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Tempered glass is not the same as laminated glass. Tempered glazing is run through a furnace at high high and then quenched. Roller marks are a trademark of tempered glass which give it a wavy characteristic. This is caused from the rollers ...
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