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Eastman’s Vanceva Online Color Selector

Eastman’s Vanceva Online Color Selector Simplifies Custom Colored Glass Custom Colors for Glass Now at Your Fingertips KINGSPORT, Tenn. – April 19th, 2017 – Whether it’s subtle pastels or brilliant bolds, adding color to any architectural project just became easier. Eastman, manufacturer of the Vanceva® Color System for laminated glass, now offers designers and architects the ability to recreate any color imaginable with the Vanceva online Color Selector Tool. Use the Color Selector Tool to convert any RAL/Pantone/RGB/NCS color into the closest corresponding Vanceva color. When it comes to architectural glass, the Vanceva Color System offers architects and designers unparalleled creative freedom to incorporate color into glass and glazing systems using tinted interlayers. The system works seamlessly with the entire range of Saflex® interlayer products, including Saflex Acoustic, Solar and DG structural interlayers. Saflex interlayers offer architects and designers flexibility to apply color to a myriad of applications, including load-bearing, structural elements such as glass flooring, curtain walls, overhead glazing, stairs and railings. Other non-structural applications include signage, way finding, skylights, furniture, balustrades, retail shelving, and interior partitions. With the Vanceva online Color Selector Tool, architects and designers can make their project selections from the Vanceva Color System’s palette of 16 colors, which can be combined in up to four layers to produce more than 17,000 transparent, translucent and solid glass colors. The enhanced Vanceva color selector tool can be embedded into the architect’s or designer’s business website free of charge, opening up a host of options for designers who would like to: · Check out the Vanceva color combination that would best fit their designs · Convert any RAL/Pantone/RGB/NCS color into the closest Vanceva color · Download relevant technical datasheets with all the elements necessary to specify a desired color · Order colored laminated glass samples online As a bonus to all Vanceva customers, any new customized color creation is added to the Vanceva Color System database on a permanent basis. For glazing customers Eastman provides a free website plugin to easily integrate Vanceva’s color selector tool onto a business website. Embedding the Vanceva color selector tool provides extra functionality to the website and boosts web traffic. Architects and designers will be able to maximize conversion on color inquiries and facilitate colored glass designs as a service to their customers.

 

 

 

 

Intermac and Movetro S.r.l., another step towards the digital factory The commercial offer is expanding in the sector of installations and lines for the manufacture of flat glass.

 

 

The range of products extends through the acquisition of Movetro and the entry of Intermac into a highly strategic sector, the storage and handling of glass panels, thanks to an investment that is part of the project Development and growth horizon 4.0 of the entire group. These are the objectives of Intermac's acquisition of Movetro, which was completed at the end of July 2017. Movetro, a company in the province of Padova, has been working for many years with the glass division of the Biesse Group and owns An indisputable and essential know-how to achieve technological leadership and further strengthen the Intermac offer for our 4.0 ready solutions for the glass industry. By offering itself as an ideal partner for the design and realization of totally automatic and integrated turnkey special installations and lines, Intermac will be able to offer a high value consultancy complementing the current range by supplying filing cabinets, Stores with shuttle, automatic dispatchers, chargers and turners, to the design of dedicated management software. For its part, Movetro will benefit from the benefits of belonging to a large industrial group such as Biesse, an advantage that will ensure the international visibility of one of the most important players in the industrial machinery sector.

 

 

 

 

Closure of the winding-up proceedings for Mirror JS, Paris.

 

J.S. MIROITERIE (Manufacture, processing, wholesale, semi-wholesale of all articles relating to the mirror industry) located in Paris (75012) was declared on Closing judgment for insufficiency of assets by the TRIBUNAL DE COMMERCE DE PARIS

 

 

 

CERFAV TECHNICAL PLATFORM, FRANCE

 

THE CERFAV PROPOSES AN EXCEPTIONAL AND UNIQUE MULTI-TECHNICAL PLATFORM IN FRANCE TO TREAT ALL THE GLASS TECHNIQUES AND TO EXPECT AN INEGAL TRAINING PALLET

 

60 M2 GLASS BLOWING WORKSHOP

 

• melting furnace

• Day tank of large capacity (150 liters, 300 kg),

• 2 small and medium capacity melting furnaces,

• 2 rod heater with spark gap,

• 5 heating ovens,

• 1 very large heating oven,

• 1 oven garage,

• 2 annealing arches (1 m3),

• 1 assortment of equipment and tools (iron, pontils, walking sticks, mallets, etc.)

• 1 scraper,

• 2 mechanical presses,

• 1 mobile suction system,

• 1 rolling mill,

• 1 mechanical suction system.

COMPLETION WORKSHOP

FINISH, SIZE, ENGRAVING OF 127M2

• 1 contouring machine (chamfering of parts, up to 2m in diameter),

• 1 diamond saw (blade diameter 400 mm),

• 1 drill press with a wide choice of diamond drills

• 3 belt machines, with a wide choice of grains,

• 6 reels of size, including 1 with electronic variator with diamond grinding wheels or stone,

• 1 double head drum,

• 2 polishing heads with double head,

• 1 demining drum - polishing,

• 4 turntables including 2 blanks (diameter 700 mm) and 2 diamonds (diameter 600 mm),

• 2 engraving drums,

• 1 portable pneumatic sander,

• 1 spray booth.

• 1 UV bonding station, one engraving station with engraving pen

 

WORKSHOP OF GLASS PULP OF 175 M2

• 3 Nabertherm 200 liter glass paste furnaces,

• 1 Nabertherm glass paste furnace 300 liters,

• 1 deciver,

• 1 vacuum pump,

• 1 stock of compatible colored glasses, plaster, etc.

MODEL WORKSHOP

• 1 wooden tower

• 1 virtual modeling arm with force feedback

• 1 3-axis milling machine

THERMOFORMING WORKSHOP

FUSING AND GLASS FOILING OF 57 M2

• 1 large electric oven (2400 x 1200 x 200 mm),

• 3 fusing ovens (1,000 x 540 x 200 mm),

• 1 fusing oven (500 x 500 x 250 mm),

• 1 test oven,

• 1 kit of decorative laminating equipment.

120M2 GLASS WORKSHOP

• 2 light tables (75 x 120 cm),

• a vertical luminous panel (120 x 190 cm),

• 8 large tables (280 x 150 cm),

• suction systems,

• 1 stock of glasses and professional tools,

• 6 hinged swivel arms for welding.

PAINTING AND GLASS SCREEN WORKSHOP

• 1 insole,

• frames (500 x 700 mm),

• 1 dryer,

• 2 suction panels,

 

• 1 casting table for silvering.

CHALUMEAU WORKSHOP

• several types of torches according to

The work to be done (beads, blowing, tube, etc.)

The type of glass (crystal, borosilicate or soda-lime)

WORKSHOP OF SCULPTURE AND ENGRAVING BY SANDING,

• 1 skiving booth (L 1300 x H 1900 x D 2000 mm),

• 2 sandblasting machines with sleeves (L 800 x H 700 x D 700 mm) with suction,

• 1 micro sand.

ACID STARTING WORKSHOP

• 6 work bins in maximum safety and environmental conditions.

FABLAB - COMPUTER ROOM

• 1 MLLASER 80W laser cutting • 2 3D printers (ABS-PLA extrusion) (140x140x140 mm and 285x153x155 mm)

• 1 3D scanner (wide-angle projector, adjustable camera, David Laser Scanner software)

• 1 Hobby 700 milling machine with 3/4 axis Iprocam numerical control (Usable volume: 260 * 400 * 900 mm).

• 1 Sensable haptic arm for 3D virtual modeling with Freeform software

• 10 dedicated and equipped computer stations (OS Windows 8)

• 1 HP LaserJet Pro 400 Color Laser Printer

• 1 web cam HD MICROSOFT LifeCam HD-3000

-> see details of the fablab equipment on the dedicated blog

MECHANICAL WORKSHOP AND MAINTENANCE

• 1 MIG welding machine,

• 1 arc welding machine,

• 3 angle grinders,

• 1 drill press,

• 1 oxy-cutter trolley,

• 1 double-head shredder,

• 1 roller,

• 1 set of electro-portable equipment:

(Planer, sander, screwdriver, circular saw, jigsaw, wood saw, drill, etc.).

PHOTO STUDIO

• 1 shooting table, • 1 latest-generation camera equipped with portrait and macro photography lenses,

• 3 electronic flash units, • reflectors and light boxes

• Large fabric and paper bottoms, etc.

RESOURCE CENTER

• nearly 4,000 books on

Glass (techniques, history, exhibition catalog, artist monographs, industry),

Contemporary art (drawing, painting, installation, exhibition),

Architecture and design,

The history of art,

Other crafts (ceramics, textiles, metal),

The jewel and the bottles of perfume, ...

 

 

 

 

Lattuada opens a branch in USA

 

Adelio Lattuada Srl is glad to announce the opening of the LATTUADA NORTH AMERICA INC., based in Northwood (OH).

Adelio Lattuada has always invested a lot in the US  market, and considerably strengthened its presence in US over the last 10 years, also thanks to the excellent work of its local sales network, who earn

earned the trust of leading multinational groups.

 

The Italian edger manufacturer has now decided to found this new branch to better cover and follow this key-market, a market that can reward the high quality products it can offer.

Thanks to the new company, Lattuada is now able to directly provide from US any type of pre- and post-sale services, including a qualified and highly professional technical assistance, managed by Mr. Joseph Gates, who has a longtime experience in the glass working machines sector.

Mrs. Kelly Gates will be the person in charge for the administrative office.

This new on-site company will grant the possibility to offer so many benefits for all Lattuada US customers:

• no more troubles connected the transports
• machines directly invoiced from US, so no currency problems
• US based services
• a technical assistance always available in the same time zone
• soon also spare parts and tools directly provided from the US building

The cooperation with the companies TSS Sales & Service (for the US West Coast) and Marc Prevost Machinerie Inc. (for Canada) will continue.