Vitro Architectural Glass will preview a new glass product at the AIA Conference
Vitro Architectural Glass will preview a new glass product and display seven large insulating glass units (IGUs), as well as a dramatic glass wall featuring an array of tinted, etched and painted glasses in a 600-square foot exhibit at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Conference on Architecture 2018 in New York, 21-23 June.
Show attendees will be among the first to hear about Acuity™ glass, a new affordable, low-iron glass designed to enhance aesthetics and clarity for vision and spandrel glass applications. To be released in September 2018, Acuity glass is designed to be a highly transparent substrate for Vitro Glass’ full-range of Solarban® high-performance solar control low-E glass coatings.
Vitro Glass will also exhibit seven large IGUs showing Solarban® 90 solar control low-emissivity (low-E) glass coated on clear and Starphire Ultra-Clear® glass substrates. The industry’s first quad-silver-coated low-E glass, Solarban 90 glass unites robust solar control with excellent visible light transmittance to meet architect demands for greater transparency and improved energy-saving performance. Other glass units will showcase Solarban 70XL on clear glass, Solarban 70XL on Optigray® glass, and Solarban z75, Solarban 67 and Solarban R100® solar control low-E glasses.
Another feature of the display will be a 90-square foot glass wall comprised by performance-tinted glasses by Vitro Glass; patterned low-E Walker Textures® AviProTek®E bird-safe glass, and decorat...