Bruce Lang, Southwall Insulating Glass
Multi-cavity IG technology features one or more coated films suspended inside the airspace of an IG unit to create two or more insulating cavities, enabling performance beyond that of triple-pane IG without the added weight. Despite these attractive performance and weight benefits, the high assembly cost, limited throughput and overall complexity of the manual manufacturing process had relegated the technology to a market niche.
Today that has all changed. Southwall Technologies, a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical and pioneer of suspended-film IG technology branded under the Heat Mirror name, has invested millions of dollars over the last five years on process automation and now supplies window manufacturers with high-quality Heat Mirror IG at high volume from Southwall Insulating Glass, its world-class automated manufacturing facility located in Chicago. This presentation discusses how innovation in the film-specific process steps has transformed the market opportunity for multi-cavity IG and provided the industry with a "future-proof" path to higher IG.
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