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21 Mar 2022
When Mere Sands Wood, a nature reserve in West Lancashire, decided to create a new visitor centre and café, minimising its impact on the local wildlife was top of its list of priorities. The reserve’s owner, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, opted to install Pilkington AviSafe™.
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25 Feb 2022
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has become the world’s first flat glass manufacturer to fire its furnace on 100% biofuel, as part of an industry trial to find sustainable alternatives to natural gas.
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10 Feb 2022
When the owners of one of Britain’s biggest out-of-town shopping parks decided to undertake a site-wide refurbishment, they wanted to marry a state-of-the-art customer experience with outstanding environmental performance. Choosing a Pilkington glazing system was crucial in achieving these twin aims.
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5 Jan 2022
Everyone loves a room with a view, and they don’t come much more striking than an uninterrupted vista of a fjord, as Pilkington explains…
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25 Nov 2021
La Samaritaine, one of Paris’ most famous department stores, has worked closely with Pritzker prize-winning architecture practice SANAA to create a striking and sinuous modern façade. The project’s glass supply was via the Pilkington Glass Service, part of the NSG Group.
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16 Nov 2021
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited appoints Neil Syder as Managing Director, as the glass manufacturer adapts to an age of decarbonisation.
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25 Oct 2021
Leaders recently gathered at Pilkington UK in St Helens to drive the conversation around hydrogen marking the North West ‘stop’ on the Decarbonised Glass Alliance’s (DGA) Hydrogen Roadshow.
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8 Sep 2021
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG group, has successfully manufactured architectural glass at its St Helens facility using hydrogen power in a world-first trial.
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15 Jul 2021
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, is celebrating its history with the creation of a new online heritage hub, ‘The History of Pilkington UK’.
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29 Jun 2021
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has made two new senior appointments – promoting Kristian Chalmers to Head of Sales, and Leo Pyrah to Marketing and VA Manager.
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7 Jun 2021
The prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) creates a new performance space by enclosing an outdoor courtyard using a large, structurally glazed rooflight from Pilkington.
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25 Mar 2021
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited has developed AviSafe™ – a new glass with a special coating designed to help prevent birds from colliding with windows.
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23 Mar 2021
The architect of The Jade, a new mixed-use development in downtown Nova Scotia, Canada, turned to the Pilkington product portfolio and chose to deploy Pilkington Suncool™ 50/25.
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26 Feb 2021
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has made its structural glazing technology Pilkington Planar™ available via building information modelling (BIM).
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19 Jan 2021
Lake Huron House, on the banks of one of North America’s five Great Lakes; features glass products from the Pilkington product portfolio.
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15 Jul 2020
The NSG Group, parent company to Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, is fast tracking its research into producing glass with an antiviral coating.
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16 Mar 2020
A Newcastle University building, inspired by the shape of a crown, features Pilkington United Kingdom Limited glass to create a striking monolithic structure in the heart of the city’s sustainable Helix development.
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22 Jan 2020
Pilkington UK Limited has launched an online hub dedicated to the latest developments from the upcoming changes to Part L of the building regulations in England.
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6 Dec 2019
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has won Commercial Project of the Year in the G19 Awards with its installation at Slimming World’s HQ.
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29 Nov 2019
Pilkinton recently helped to flood a five-storey university building with natural light, thanks to a 51-ft-tall wall of Pilkington Planar™ glazing.
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8 Oct 2019
Pilkington UK Limited has announced the launch of a new toughenable dual-coated glass, with self-cleaning, solar control and thermal insulation properties.
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1 Oct 2019
Pilkington UK Limited has recently been listed as a finalist for Commercial Project of the Year in the G19 Awards for its installation at Slimming Word’s HQ.
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10 Sep 2019
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited has announced the launch of a new smartphone app that provides ideas and inspiration for building designers and architects.
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15 Aug 2019
The Palm Tower, a new landmark from master developer Nakheel, under construction at the heart of Dubai’s iconic Palm Jumeirah, features Pilkington’s Suncool™ One 30/21 solar control glass.
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26 Jun 2019
Pilkington United Kingdom Ltd, part of the NSG Group, has invested over £3 million in new technology to increase its capacity to manufacture Pilkington Planar™
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11 Apr 2019
The open-air pedestrianised street of Newton Abbot’s shopping centre has recently been enclosed with a large glass roof from Pilkington.
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8 Feb 2019
The newly extended Slimming World HQ in Derbyshire sought to create a landmark building for the brand – this was helped by the specification of Pilkington glazing.
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3 Jan 2019
The glamorous Park Hotel Imperial, located on the shore of Lake Garda, Italy, features glass elements extensively, inside and out, courtesy of Pilkington.
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3 Jan 2019
The glamorous Park Hotel Imperial, located on the shore of Lake Garda, Italy, features glass elements extensively, inside and out, courtesy of Pilkington.
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13 Dec 2018
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has announced that four new dealers will be supplying Pilkington Spacia™ to customers in the UK.
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6 Dec 2018
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has won ‘Commercial Project of the Year’ at the prestigious G18 Awards for its installation at 6 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.
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29 Nov 2018
Pilkington UK was honoured to be recognised at the glass industry’s Glass Focus 2018 awards with the ‘Innovative Solution’ award on 22nd November.
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8 Nov 2018
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has helped to create a three-story structural glass cube, comprising part of a makeover and extension at Aldi’s UK headquarters.
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29 Oct 2018
Pilkington Planar™ has played a part in the renovation of Tulsa’s 50-year-old Central Library building, which has been brought up to date in many aspects.
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16 Oct 2018
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited has announced the launch of its innovative new Pilkington Optimirror™ Protect Plus.
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27 Sep 2018
The Charnock Bradley Building at the University of Edinburgh has recently had a striking glass atrium installed, made with Pilkington Planar™.
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26 Sep 2018
Pilkington UK Limited is helping Swansea University to deliver the UK’s first net energy-positive commercial building.
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17 Sep 2018
The NSG Group, owner of the Pilkington brand, will exhibit innovative new products for energy-efficiency, solar control and decorative applications at Glasstec in Dusseldorf from 23 – 26 October.
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3 Jul 2018
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited has announced the manufacture of two more of its solar control products in the UK to shorten lead times for customers.
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17 May 2018
The newly finished 122 Waterloo Street development in Glasgow will be one of the most energy efficient buildings in Scotland, thanks to glass coatings from Pilkington.
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30 Apr 2018
Pilkington provides various solutions for a newly constructed building in Edinburgh which integrates five existing buildings in a historic Edinburgh square.
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17 Jan 2018
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited has sold 10 million square meters of its self-cleaning glass product Pilkington Activ™.
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4 Dec 2017
Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing system has been used in creating a three-storey atrium for the headquarters of wealth management business St James’s Place.
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8 Nov 2017
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited has launched two new patterns, taking their place in the company’s popular Texture Glass range.
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26 Oct 2017
Pilkington glazing has perfectly brought together the old with the new at St John’s Church in Egham, Surrey.
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24 Oct 2017
Where buildings are tightly packed together, it can be hard to achieve daylight-flooded spaces due to the threat of fire spreading. However, Pilkington may have a solution to deal with this.
Posted in Articles, Building Industry News, Health & Safety, Posts, Windows
27 Sep 2017
Pilkington have supplied a triple-height, triple-glazed wall to a school in Twickenham, Greater London.
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7 Sep 2017
Pilkington was faced with the potentially difficult challenge challenge of fitting new, sash windows for a school in Bray, County Wicklow, near Dublin.
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7 Sep 2017
Pilkington Planar™ glazing has been used to construct a full-height wall for a new office building at an online gaming software business in the Isle of Man.
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15 Aug 2017
The hotel management at Rudding Park near Harrogate recently incorporated Pilkington Suncool to its new luxury spa complex.
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9 Aug 2017
Pilkington Planar allows light to flow into the newly refurbished Elmhurst Library in Queens, New York whilst keeping the elements out.
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7 Aug 2017
N&C Glass has invested over £250,000 in new manufacturing equipment, in response to an increase in demand for shaped Pilkington fire glass.
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4 Jul 2017
Pilkington Activ self-cleaning glass has been independently assessed and verified to EN 1096-5, the new European Standard for self-cleaning glass.
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14 Jun 2017
Pilkington is providing light and promoting interaction at the new Materials Innovation Factory at the city-centre campus of the University of Liverpool.
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30 May 2017
A four-storey structurally glazed cube dominates a landmark intersection, creating an atrium space that welcomes visitors to a Toronto retail complex.
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24 Apr 2017
Pilkington UK Ltd has collaborated with the NBS National BIM Library to make its products and models available online.
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21 Apr 2017
New technologies for architectural glazing will allow buildings to adapt to their surrounding environment in revolutionary new ways.
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11 Apr 2017
Pilkington has helped Flanagan and Lawrence to transform an office block built in 1975 with a triple-height structurally glazed atrium.
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27 Feb 2017
The University of Cambridge building that houses the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the Museum and Department of Zoology has been refurbished.
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30 Jan 2017
University of Cambridge’s Maxwell Centre is cutting edge in sustainability with advanced glazing from Pilkington UK Limited.
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1 Dec 2016
Sixty percent of architects and building specifiers are experiencing delays to projects as a direct result of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
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28 Nov 2016
British businesses lose £3.5bn in fire damage costs every year, according to a whitepaper published by Pilkington.
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11 Nov 2016
One Albert Quay in Cork has utilised Pilkington Suncool to deliver a sustainable landmark dubbed the ‘smartest building in Ireland’.
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4 Nov 2016
A range of advanced glazing systems developed by Pilkington Glass have been used to help One Central Square achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.
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10 Oct 2016
Portico has fitted more than 100 of Pilkington’s high-spec insulating glass units (IGUs) at an exclusive apartment development in Essex for Weston Homes.
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10 Oct 2016
Video of the Week: A Pilkington glazing system has been used to recreate the look of a traditional Victorian orangery whilst also delivering 21st century benefits.
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5 Oct 2016
A 10-storey glass façade, created using the Pilkington Planar glazing system, has been specified for the landmark 601 Massachusetts Avenue project in Washington DC.
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16 Sep 2016
The owner of Pilkington, NSG Group, has entered an agreement with Solaria to manufacture and produce semi-transparent BIPV solutions.
Posted in Building Products & Structures, Heating Systems, Controls and Management, Windows
15 Sep 2016
Glass in Architecture includes prestigious architectural projects from around the world that feature the most creative uses of glass.
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2 Sep 2016
Using its Planar stainless steel fittings and high-strength double glazing, Pilkington has delivered an enormous glass wall to the Farwaniya Court Complex.
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22 Aug 2016
Spec-it! is a new performance search function to help architects, specifiers and customers build specifications tailored to their project requirements.
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16 Aug 2016
Each of the styles in the showroom will incorporate products from the Pilkington Activ self-cleaning glass range.
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12 Jul 2016
Pilkington products have been used to deliver a double glazing solution for a new office space, showroom and distribution centre for Pineapple Contracts.
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5 Jul 2016
Pilkington UK has signed a new deal with Howells Patent Glazing following the launch of its new solar control product, Pilkington Suncool One 60/40.
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4 Jul 2016
Pilkington Spacia has been specified for the renovation of Templeton, the former home of Sir Winston Churchill in Roehampton, South West London.
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18 May 2016
Glazing offers spectacular 5 storey grandstand views of the track, winners enclosure and the Malvern Hills.
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20 Apr 2016
Pilkington met with Theresa Griffin MEP and Conor McGinn MP to discuss measures to support the energy efficient developments in Europe’s glazing sector.
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13 Apr 2016
Pilkington UK is set to manufacture a new solar control panel this year; Pilkington Suncool One 60/40 will be the latest addition to its Suncool range.
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29 Mar 2016
Pilkington Activ range, the first dual-action self-cleaning glasss, chosen for Trent Valley Windows new conservatory showroom.
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21 Mar 2016
Architects often use structural glazing to add design flair to buildings – but how do we ensure that it is as strong as it is beautiful?
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16 Mar 2016
When constructing office buildings in cities, it can be difficult to maintain temperature and reduce noise. Pilkington can produce glazing to tackle this.
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14 Mar 2016
The impressive performance of the latest architectural glass products is often down to their extremely thin surface coatings.
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2 Mar 2016
The glass and glazing industry must do more to promote the benefits of high performance products if it is to secure future growth in the domestic market.
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1 Feb 2016
The UK glass and glazing industry is set to experience a period of expansion over the next two years, according to latest research from Pilkington UK.
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25 Jan 2016
In this Video of the Week, Steve Bond talks us through the testing process for fire-resistant glass.
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28 Oct 2015
Pilkington has launched two new butt-jointed glazing systems as part of its Pilkington Pyroclear range.
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28 Sep 2015
A range of Pilkington glass products have been specified for a landmark development at the heart of Stoke-on-Trent’s new leisure and cultural quarter.
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24 Sep 2015
Pilkington Glass has announced the launch of a low-e, hard coated glass, designed to help windows achieve a Window Energy Rating (WER) A rating when installed within a suitable frame.
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21 Jul 2015
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1 Jun 2015
Did you know, that the coatings applied to Pilkington’s most advanced high-performance products are typically 1000 times thinner than a piece of paper?
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1 Jun 2015
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20 May 2015
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7 Apr 2015
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1 Apr 2015
Mike Woodhead, line manager at Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, talks us through the process at the heart of float glass production, the bath of molten tin on which the glass spreads out to form a flat sheet, followed by the carefully controlled cooling process.
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1 Apr 2015
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25 Mar 2015
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18 Mar 2015
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18 Mar 2015
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9 Oct 2014
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