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In the fields of architecture, building construction and interior design, the factor of safety is very important to be considered, in the design of spaces and in the products choice, as well as security against vandalism or break-in attempts.

The Pilkington Optilam™ glass range is able to fulfill in an excellent way both safety and security, while maintaining the fundamental characteristic of transparency and several other extraordinary material properties of glass.

What is Pilkington Optilam™?

It is a range of laminated safety and security glass, able to withstand accidental impacts, vandalism attempts and assaults to the blows of firearms.

This type of product consists of two or more panes of glass bonded together with one or more sheets of flexible PVB (polyvinylbutyral) interlayer.

The PVB is a plastic material which, in the event of breakage, retains the glass fragments and any splinters, preventing that they become dangerous for people situated nearby. Another well-known application of laminated safety glass is for car windshields.

Depending on the type of protection to be obtained, specific types of laminated glass can be produced, by varying the thickness and the number of each ply, as well as the coating applied to the glass surface and, consequently, the photometric properties.

By doing this, we can offer a very wide range of products suitable for many applications, such as solar control (with Pilkington Suncool™ or Pilkington Eclipse Advantage™), thermal insulation (with Pilkington Optitherm™ or Pilkington K Glass™ range), anti-reflective (with Pilkington OptiView™ range) essential to provide the shop windows with security and high transparency, or self-cleaning function (with Pilkington Activ™ range).

Pilkington Optiphon™ is a high quality acoustic laminated glass that offers excellent noise reduction in limited thickness, without significant weight increase and without compromising on light transmittance or impact performance.

The desired acoustic performance can be achieved through combining various thicknesses of glass with a special PVB (polyvinylbutyral) interlayer. With a large variety of product combinations, Pilkington Optiphon™ offers the opportunity to achieve specific noise reduction requirements, and security as well.

The Italian legislation state that only safety glass may be used in critical locations, such as in the glazing of residential homes (windows, doors, railings, stairs, etc.), but also in commercial environment, in shop windows, in schools, hospitals, public places, etc. In order to fulfil the protection from falls function, a laminated glass shall be used. The Italian reference standard is UNI 7697, defining the Safety criteria in glass applications.

Most of Pilkington Optilam™ and Pilkington Optiphon™ products bear a distinguished mark, CSICERT UNI, which certifies their performance in terms of safety and security from vandalism, deliberate physical attack and even from firearms.

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it

From today an extra clear glass - most appreciated by the market - is also produced in the Pilkington Italia plant in Venice, where the glass production was restarted just a few months ago. The extra clear glass Pilkington Optiwhite™ exceeds the ordinary concept of the glass transparency.

Compared to traditional clear float glass, in fact, it guarantees an excellent neutrality in transmission and a superb colour rendering, which allows to appreciate the colours of the objects behind the glass without any alteration. The colours remain bright and perfectly natural.

Moreover, thanks to the high light transmission and almost no green cast inherent to other glasses, it is perfect for applications with exposed edges, in which the edge of the standard float glass, especially in large thickness, would have a greenish tint due to the iron oxides contained in the raw materials.

Pilkington Optiwhite™ is an extra clear glass, obtained from a rigorous selection of raw materials, high grade sand with a reduced iron oxide content, and through careful control of various parameters during the melting process, to provide the market with a product of excellent performance.

Thanks to its extraordinary colour neutrality, this glass is the ideal product for showcases that contain paintings, valuable objects and works of art, as well as for interior design solutions, where it is successfully used for stairs, furniture, balustrades and partitions.

When used for windows, Pilkington Optiwhite™ allows maximum light transmission, so it is strongly recommended in buildings that do not receive enough light from the outside, allowing electricity costs savings.

It can be used both as monolithic and in insulating glass units, in combination with other Pilkington glass products.

Thanks to the availability of Pilkington Optiwhite™ in thicknesses from 2 mm to 19 mm, NSG Group offers architects and designers the widest range of extra clear glass in the market. The glass can also be used as a substrate for a number of other functional glass products providing thermal insulation (Pilkington K Glass™ OW or Pilkington Optitherm™ S3 OW), solar control and low-e properties (Pilkington Suncool™ OW range), noise control (Pilkington Optiphon™ OW), safety and security (Pilkington Optilam™ OW) and more.

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it

Venice, 2018 March 24th – The process leading to the concession from the Autorità di Sistema Portuale to Pilkington Italia has positively reached.

Pilkington is strongly tied to Marghera and its Port History: the glass factory dates back to 1924, on behalf of Società Italiana Vetri e Cristalli. Starting from that date and after many global refurbishments, on June 26th 2006, the Group has been bought by the Japanese Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) keeping “Pilkington” as primary brand.

Last October, in the plant of Porto Marghera, a new float glass furnace was turned on. It grows in a historic place for glass production in Venice, that has been working since 1932 and where float technology started in 1987, has going on until 2012. The innovation has been possible thanks to the restructuration of most of the previous installations, and it gives a very good production increases. Among else, in this plant Pilkington Optiwhite™ is produced. This is a high innovative glass, obtained thanks to a careful selection of row materials that gives the result of an especially transparent glass, suitable for modern requires of industry and high quality furnitures.

The President of the Autorità di Sistema Pino Musolino affirmed: “Today we are proud and satisfied to officially re launch a firm who has shown real capabilities: these are the firms who let our port growing together with our territory. We support Pilkington that in its re-launch focus in innovation, starting from Porto Marghera.

Venice has always been one of the main areas in glass industry, because of the naval transport network that has been connected the places of production of the raw material from yesterday until today.

"With today's signing we confirm our will to move forward, and continue in the future to invest in the Marghera site, which due to its strategic position allows us to receive the raw material by sea, and on the other to be connected with all the major European markets " said the General Manager of Pilkington, Alessandro Michetti, at the end of the agreement.

The re-launch period had a good impact on employment too: Pilkington Italia in Porto Marghera occupies 192 workers, of which 60 were hired recently for the re-ignition of the furnace. The company's turnover in the financial year ended in March 31st, 2017 was around 60 million euros.

In conclusion, the President Musolino underlined that "the administrative procedure for the multi-year concession was completed in record time, and it was optimized by the integration in a single act of the authorization and the concession, both necessary by the law to carry out entrepreneurial activity: an optimization that was possible on the one hand thanks to an innovative procedural performance conducted in synergy by the competent Offices of the Autorità di Sistema Portuale and by the full operation of Pilkington in the various steps that led to the signature".

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it

One of the critical aspects of a standard shower cubicle or enclosure is its maintenance. It is not always easy to keep it always transparent, free from traces of limescale, soap and various detergents. To achieve it usually the continuous cleaning is necessary.

Over time, the signs of deterioration and the opalescence effects are observed on the glass that make its maintenance particularly laborious.

A few months ago, Pilkington Italia has launched to the market Pilkington OptiShower™ a new type of glass specifically designed to solve such problems.

The glass thanks to its special surface coating, helps to keep the shower enclosure transparent and clean over time. The highly resistant coating has an anti-corrosion properties that protect glass surface and the shower box looks always nice and is easy to clean.

Due to its high resistance to abrasion and a high durability, the coating doesn’t deteriorate during the designed working life of the shower cubicle, keeping all its properties constant over time.

Pilkington OptiShower™ is a very useful product also for public showers (swimming pools and sports facilities) and is ideal for hotels, where the reduction of maintenance time can be a considerable cost saving.

Further applications of Pilkington OptiShower™ may include wall coverings in bathrooms or wet rooms in general.

Thanks to the anti-corrosion coating, it can also be used in the naval sector.

Glass processors appreciate the pyrolytic coating of Pilkington OptiShower™, as it is easy to work with using standard techniques. In fact this product can be toughened, bent, laminated as well as silk-screened even on the coating side.

Pilkington OptiShower™ is available on 6 and 8 mm clear glass and on 8 mm

Pilkington Optiwhite™ extra clear glass; it can also be offered as acid-etched

Pilkington OptiShower™ Opal with an elegant design for applications where comfort and privacy in the shower are required.

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it

NSG Group will exhibit a range of high performance glass products at the Integrated Systems Europe Show on 6-9th February 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Integrated Systems Europe is the world’s best-attended tradeshow dedicated to professional AV, Digital Signage and electronic integrated systems.

The Company offers a wide range of glass products to meet the requirements of standard to more complex requirements in Digital Signage applications. These digital signage and display manufactures are looking for glass products and processing capabilities which will enable the final product to meet the required specification for the end application. NSG Group can even offer a finished product fit for the end customer’s application.

This year we plan to present our products in real applications. We will present a second generation non-conductive mirror Pilkington MirroView™ used in a touch screen application. We will also present one of our anti-reflective glass products Pilkington OptiView™ used in our info kiosk. Thermal load reduction in digital signage displays is a key requirement and NSG Group will expose some solutions to that.

Our wide product range offered for digital applications includes also an ultra-thin glass with a thickness of less than 1 mm such as NSG UFF™ and NSG glanova™, conductive glass products with TCO coatings (NSG TEC™), safety and security glass products, self-cleaning glass and more.

The NSG Group team at ISE 2018 is looking forward to meeting all customers and visitors wanting to learn more about how Pilkington glass solutions can help them.

Visit us at the NSG Group booth #8-K475.

For more information please visit: http://www.pilkington.com/en/digitalsignage

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it

Since 2009, the legislation on energy efficiency of buildings imposes an upper limit of solar energy transmittance value of glazed surfaces and for this reason products which limit the entry of radiation of sun in the buildings, contributing to energy savings, are increasingly developed.

The wide range of solar control glass allows you to choose the glass with the most suitable performance characteristics, depending on the orientation of the façade and the geographic location of the building. However, solar exposure can become profoundly different due to the daily temperature range or in different periods of the year.

Pilkington Suncool™ Dynamic is a thermochromic laminated safety glass which adapts its performance according to the amount of solar heat radiation, obscuring when the temperature reaches critical levels.

Through the interaction with direct sunlight and heat, the shade of the glass changes thus ensuring a level of brightness and a temperature always pleasant inside the building.

The more direct and more intense the incident solar radiation, the darker the glass becomes.

Although it automatically darkens, this technologically advanced glass allows you to enjoy a clear view of the external environment throughout the day.

Another important feature: its transformation takes place in total autonomy, the glass darkens and clears itself without the need for manual control or electrical devices, depending on the amount of direct solar heat that hits it.

Since there are no wires or electrical devices, the system is durable and maintenance-free.

It is more widely used in glazed roofs and façades highly exposed to the sun where a very low solar factor value is required.

Pilkington Suncool™ Dynamic can help manage a building’s changing needs for solar control and natural daylight, help to save energy and contribute to sustainable environment.

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it

Pilkington Spectrum, one of the industry’s most popular glass specifying tool, is now available to use on-the-go following the launch of a new smartphone app.

The app is available for download on iPhones, iPads and Android devices and allows users to find Pilkington products that most closely match their project requirements.

The calculator was previously only available through the Pilkington website, but has now been optimised for use on mobile devices to make the process of specifying glass quicker and easier.

Users of the app can search parameters including U-value, g-value, light transmittance and sound insulation to help find products that meet their needs.

The app can be used to specify glass for a variety of configurations, including single glazing, insulating glass units (double, triple and quadruple glazing), secondary glazing and double window configurations. Customers and specifiers can build up their own library of favourite configurations and, for CE Marking, access the Declaration of Performance. For convenience, results can be emailed direct to the mailbox.

The database includes a comprehensive range of Pilkington products, provided by benefit-led categories such as solar control, thermal insulation and self-cleaning.

Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager at Pilkington, said: “We've received great feedback for Pilkington Spectrum over the past few months, but we wanted to make sure it is accessible to everyone, no matter where they are. We're pleased that the new Spectrum app now offers customers an advanced, online technical service that can be accessed via mobile device.

"The app will make it quicker and easier for users to find and select the products they need, regardless of their level of glass product knowledge.”

The new Spectrum app for iPhones and iPads is available to download from the Apple iTunes store here: https://goo.gl/px2hVi.

It can also be downloaded from the Google Play Store for Android devices here: https://goo.gl/Dc777i.

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it

Il vetro è utilizzato in architettura già dai tempi della Roma Antica, quando veniva applicato ai vani finestra delle abitazioni per coprire il foro e fungeva da elemento di separazione fra interno ed esterno. Per circa 2 millenni ha mantenuto questa funzione, fino a quando Sir Alastair Pilkington, inventando nel 1952 il processo di fabbricazione industriale del vetro, aprì le porte ad una rivoluzione del suo utilizzo in architettura.

Con il passaggio dalla produzione artigianale a quella industriale, il vetro non solo è diventato disponibile su vasta scala in modo standardizzato e a prezzi inferiori, ma è diventato anche un prodotto accessibile alla ricerca scientifica e tecnologica per modificarne e arricchirne le prestazioni. Anche per effetto di ciò, ma soprattutto dei nuovi stili architettonici, il vetro ha sostituito e continua a sostituire tanti altri materiali nell’architettura e nell’edilizia.

La tendenza infatti a ridurre, se non ad eliminare, la separazione fra interno ed esterno, soprattutto nel rapporto con la natura, induce molti progettisti a considerare il vetro come soluzione ideale, realizzando sia intere facciate strutturali in vetro, sia grandi vetrate, come anche elementi di protezione e separazione nelle strade, ponti, passerelle, stadi …

In coerenza e assecondando l’indirizzo del mercato, la nostra azienda da oltre 15 anni ha immesso sul mercato un tipo di vetro, Pilkington Activ™ che aggiunge un valore importante per la funzione autopulente. Grazie al suo rivestimento esterno, attraverso l’azione della luce solare è in grado di decomporre e sciogliere lo sporco organico, consentendo quindi alla pioggia di eliminarlo definitivamente. Nei sistemi di facciata attualmente adottati in architettura, Pilkington Activ™ utilizzato in facciata esterna può essere abbinato a tantissime soluzioni che uniscono caratteristiche importanti a beneficio delle persone e dell’ambiente, come i vetri fonoassorbenti, quelli a controllo solare, nonché i vetri bassoemissivi per eccellenti prestazioni di isolamento termico.

L’ingegner Nicolò Padoan, Sales Manager Italy e Project Business di Pilkington Italia ha dichiarato:

“la nostra è l’azienda che ha fatto nascere l’attuale mercato del vetro industriale, quindi è nella nostra filosofia anticipare la domanda del mercato e proporne le soluzioni per il futuro. Lo abbiamo fatto nel caso del vetro float, lo abbiamo fatto con il vetro autopulente, con i sistemi di sicurezza, …” “Sempre nel mercato dell’edilizia, oggi sono in commercio soluzioni che abbinano le caratteristiche classiche del vetro con la produzione di energia fotovoltaica. Per dare alcuni esempi concreti, la nostra azienda, in collaborazione con Solaria, ha da poco prodotto Pilkington Sunplus™ BIPV un vetro in cui sono inseriti moduli per l’accumulo di energia fotovoltaica. È dotato delle certificazioni più rigorose oggi esistenti, e ha superato i test Kiwa Netherlands”.

“Un altro prodotto nuovo molto interessante è Pilkington Suncool™ Dynamic, la soluzione semplice e intelligente per la protezione dinamica dal sole. E’ un vetro stratificato di sicurezza termocromico, che adatta le sue prestazioni in relazione alla quantità di irraggiamento del sole sul vetro, oscurandosi quando la temperatura raggiunge un livello critico. Attraverso l'interazione con la luce solare diretta e il calore, la tonalità del vetro si modifica garantendo così un livello di luminosità e una temperatura sempre piacevoli all'interno dell'edificio. Quando la radiazione solare si abbassa, il vetro si schiarisce di nuovo. Il tutto avviene in totale autonomia senza l’utilizzo di impianti o sistemi costosi.”

"Un altro ancora è il vetro antiriflesso Pilkington OptiView™ per applicazioni nelle vetrine dei negozi o nei musei per valorizzare i prodotti esposti evitando la riflessione luminosa che ostacola la migliore osservazione delle opere d’arte o dei prodotti. Ma," continua Padoan, “la ricerca e le nuove tecnologie hanno permesso la realizzazione di prodotti importanti anche nel mercato dell’arredamento. Per esempio, quest’anno è uscito sul mercato una nuova versione dello specchio trasparente non conduttivo per tecnologia touch screen, Pilkington MirroView™. E’ il prodotto ideale per nascondere schermi digitali e schermi video in ambito commerciale e residenziale.”

Per maggiori informazioni: www.pilkington.it