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following advantages: percent of the total number Therefore, many custom- fore, it becomes a necessity
t 'MFYJCJMJUZ QSPEVDJOH of units sold to date. ers have opted for a large to “encapsulate” them in
any of the above materials This has been helped by format Pujol 100 system in order to protect them with
without limitations. the fact that, after the crisis the last two years, obtain- another element that allows
t $PNQFUJUJWFOFTT NBOV- and due to the volatility of ing a competitive advan- them to counteract their
facturing at the lowest cost laminated glass sales vol- tage over their competi- deficiencies. It is in this
per unit produced, avoid- umes on the market, cus- tors by having a system in “gap” that the need to use
ing fixed energy costs that tomers have seen that au- which PVB, Sentryglass or laminated glass compatible
force high production. toclave systems base their TPU can be made without with organic elements be-
t 1SPEVDUJWJUZ UIF DBQB- profitability on an economy air conditioning or dehu- comes indispensable.
bility of meeting the peaks of scale that has now dis- midifiers and also thanks It is precisely this quality,
of sales for major projects appeared and is unlikely to to the system developed by the compatibility of be-
and is efficient and profit- return; and that in order to Fast Curing. The Pujol-100 ing able to harmonize all
able with low production cover their costs they must is able to make production the technical properties of
volumes, maintaining ser- achieve a stable minimum more flexible and meet de- glass in terms of transpar-
vice levels to customers turnover volume or they mands in cases where 500 ency, rigidity and mechani-
throughout the year. will not cover the fixed en- square metres per day of cal protection, high adhe-
t 1SPmUBCJMJUZ B RVJDL QBZ ergy costs generated main- laminated glass are needed. sion and dimensional and
back for the lowest invest- ly by the climatic room. FUTURE structural stability with the
ment required. This in an environment of electronic films that have
With these strategic ob- unstoppable inflation of PDLC & ELECTRICAL made EVALAM the world’s
jectives in mind, the Pu- energy prices which will INTERLAYERS leading technical interlayer
jol-100 system was de- not decrease in the short or It is evident that home au- referenced by all architec-
veloped and presented at medium term, but rather tomation homes are not tural and technological ap-
Glasstec 2010, and since the opposite. only a trend, but a reality, plicators.
then more than 30 instal- To this data must be added and within the design and Pujol, at the request of its
lations have been assem- that the current trend to- projects of current homes, customers and taking ad-
bled in 19 countries on 5 wards the production of the interactivity of them vantage of the synergies
continents, demonstrat- large-format glasses, so with the integration of the that Evalam provides as
ing a resounding success that the larger the desired internet of things will re- an interlayer, opens a new
of reliability, consistency glass size, the greater the quire more and more con- laminated product divi-
and profitability for all our problem generated, since nectivity of all constructive sion specialized only in
customers, a ruling that is the larger the autoclave elements in the S-XXI. It electronics, called I-ON
reinforced by the fact that must be and the more diffi- is also known that all this GLASS, with the aim of in-
it has been in the last two cult it will be to fill in order connectivity is based on or- novating and providing the
years when the reliability to optimize the processes ganic electronic elements, market with a new vision
of the technology has been and/or make the produc- which present poor quali- of the real possibilities of
consolidated with the in- tion costs and investment ties in general terms of me- laminated glass.
stallation of more than 50 profitable. chanical resistance. There- I-ON GLASS currently has

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