Page 98 - Glass-Technology International no. 3-2019

GLASS TRENDS

Façade of the Crystal House in Amsterdam.
Photo: Daria Scagliola & Stijn Brakkee

he glass technology thermore, the Glasstec period through antiquity application such as interac-
live show at Glasstec conference also provided to the Middle Ages glass tive façades and energetic
T 2018 addressed the information on the latest manufacturing has been functions.
four focal themes Interac- developments while also constantly refined and spe-
tive Façades/Display Glass, picking up on current re- cialised. By the introduc- GLASS TECHNOLOGY
Energy and Performance, search projects from the tion of industrial-scale pro- LIVE UNDER NEW
Structural Glass (thick special show. The essential duction glass became an GUIDANCE AND WITH
glass/thin glass) and New and typical characteristic affordable mass-produced A NEW CONCEPT
Technologies. In coopera- of glass is its transparency product on the one hand, glass technology live fused
tion with four Technical – a property that laid the and machine-based glass both the said advances
Universities (Darmstadt, foundation for the appeal technology also opened made in glass technology
Delft, Dresden and Dort- of this material millennia up hitherto unknown pos- and the undreamt-of possi-
mund) and selected busi- ago and that has not ceased sibilities for glass finishing, bilities of this tradition-rich
nesses Messe Düsseldorf to fascinate with its versa- on the other. Last but not material. The special show
showcased forward-look- tile applications until this least, digitalisation brought has been part and parcel of
ing technologies. Fur- very day. From the early completely new fields of the trade fair for 20 years

96 Glass-Technology International 3/2019