VEKA leads the way as one window comes home – recycled

VEKA is claiming a recycling world’s first after one old window was transformed into a new one using its technically-advanced recycling facility.
The PVC-U system supplier teamed up with Wigan & Leigh Housing and the Council’s own window factory and special status employer, Metrolite, to track the window to a unique recycling plant in Germany and back to the same tower block project.
The new-for-old initiative was an exercise to prove it can be done but the same thing could soon be happening all around More...



Planibel A: AGC’s new low E for the UK
AGC has launched Planibel A, described as a revolutionary new energy efficient glass for the UK market with a high performance, low-emissivity hard coating specially developed to perform to the highest ratings within the Window More...

Matthew Skywalks for safety
 Matthew Baines was the lucky Saint-Gobain Glass UK employee who won the trip of a lifetime to the Grand Canyon, and experience the vertigo-inducing Skywalk – the gravity-defying glass bridge which ‘hovers’ over one of the seven natural wonders of the world. More...
Chromatic coloured glass
 Whether the requirement is for digitally printed imagery or solid colour panels with absolutely no show through, the unique new Chromatics product from The Glass Wall Company is designed to allow More...
GGF LONDON REGION MEETING BOOSTED BY SOLAR POWER
 The next big opportunity for the UK glass and glazing industry is solar power - domestic and commercial, thermal and photovoltaic (PV). That is the contention being made at the next meeting of the Glass & Glazing More...
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