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Top glass manufacturers

Posted on: September 1, 2011

USGlass magazine released the top ten glass manufacturers 2010, they are Viracon Inc. - Minnesota, Custom Glass Products - North Carolina,  Vitro Architectural Products - Tennessee, Oldcastle Glass - California, Glasswerks - Los Angeles, JE Berkowitz - New Jersey, Northwestern Industries - Seattle, Dlubak Corp - Pennsylvania, Arch Aluminum & Glass Co. Inc. – Florida, and. USGlass magazine is focuses on glass manufacturing issues mainly of commercial and domestic building.

Viracon Inc. – Minnesota was established in 1970 by James L. Martineau, with its core business in architectural glass fabrication. This company's expertise is in acoustical, Green Design/LEED, insulating, silk screened, insulating laminated, spandrel, Heat-Treated, laminated, protective, Monolithic, and special fabrication. The glass insulation is to increase its thermal performance by developing several plies of glass separated by spacer and organic sealant. Spandrel is ceramic-frit and opacifying-film for building's exterior design. The implementation of this spandrel is to enhance the radiating effect on its solid background.

Custom Glass Products is located in Salisbury North Carolina and focuses on producing glass window and door with its main fabrication of Decralite Grid System. Their products include commercial glass, commercial Simple Direct-Media Layer (SDL), Residential Decralite SDL, Residential Decralite Grids-Between-Glass (GBG), residential door-inserts, insulating glass, and window-shapes. The GBG product is designated to maximize its obscure vision on windows and door in houses or offices.

Vitro Architectural Products in Memphis, Tennessee manufactures building and automotive glass by focusing on mirror and flat glass. Their product range consists of all-glass doors, auto-glass, decorative glass, flat glass, glass board, insulated-glass, and many more.  Recently, this Company celebrated its 100th Anniversary in Glass industry. Oldcaste Glass Company in Santa Monica, California, has three basic lines which are residential, infrastructure, and commercial, focusing on solar control Low-E glass, shower enclosures, and structural glass. Glasswerks LA Inc. in Los Angeles was established in 1979 and focuses on laminated glass, bullet-resistant glass, tabletop, custom and bent-tempered glass, wardrobes, thermal shades, color glass, shower doors, mirrors, entrance doors, and insulated glass-units.

JE Berkowitz Pedricktown New Jersey is a manufacturer for heat-soaking insulating glass, heat-treated glass, point-supported glass, laminated glass, spandrel glass, silk-screened glass, all-glass entrances, and interior glass. The application of their products is for hotels, libraries, museums, hospitals, restaurants, swing door, sliding door, etc. Northwestern Industries Inc. was incorporated in Seattle, Washington in 1974. Their core business is producing automated silk-screening seamer, tempered glass, laminated glass, insulated glass, spandrel glass, and low-e glass. Dlubak Corporation founded in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, has its core business in security glass, forced-resistant class, bent glass laminates, blast-resistant glass, bullet-resistant glass, and flat glass. Arch Aluminum & Glass Co. Inc. is located in Tamara, Florida, by focusing on basic and artistic architectural series, and multi-functional architectural series. Cristacurva – Mexico with institution and commercial entrance-system, thermal-storefront framing-system, color toolbox, channel glass, fire-rated, film, glass clamps and others.

The above companies have significantly contributed the development in glass industry which will be noted as mankind's histories for centuries ahead. They are also creating more innovative production in more advanced technology and wider application.


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