Vitro Architectural Glass (formerly PPG Glass) announced it has reached an agreement with LandGlass and VIG Technologies to sell their tempered vacuum insulating glass (VIG) products in North America. “LandGlass and their LandVac brand uses the world’s best VIG technology, so their products are a natural fit in Vitro’s already expansive and trusted product portfolio,” […]
BAU 2019 is underway at the Messe München in Munich, Germany, this week, where glass industry companies are displaying their latest technologies. The six-day trade fair features 2,250 exhibitors from 45 countries, focusing on architecture, materials and systems for commercial, residential and interior construction. Amid the exhibitors on hand, Press Glass premiered its 3D Glass […]
Peter Petit isn’t so brash as to take credit for having created vacuum-insulating window glass, but the founder and CEO of Pewaukee, Wisc.-based V-Glass LLC thinks he’s made it better than before. His design won the advanced manufacturing category in the 2013 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest last month and feels his invention could eventually […]
An employee of Delafield, Wis.-based Envelop LLC, Robert Jones, has been issued U.S. patent No. 8,182,887 for a “Vacuum Insulating Glass (VIG) Unit with Viscous Edge Seal.” According to the company, the VIG units include two spaced-apart glass sheets with a vacuum in between an array of spacers maintains separation of the sheets, and the […]
