Company Profile
Vitro Architectural Glass is the largest float glass producer in the Americas, manufacturing a range of industry-leading, energy-efficient products such as Solarban®, Sungate® and Starphire Ultra-Clear® glasses. Committed to sustainable manufacturing processes and products, the company also operates one of the world’s largest glass research and development facilities in Pittsburgh and four residential glass fabrication plants in Canada. Upholding the values of “Together, We See Further” across the architectural, automotive and containers markets, Vitro strives to realize the power of partnership to ensure that projects meet or exceed ever-evolving sustainability expectations as well as glass requirements.
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Solarban® R77 Solar Control Low-E Glass
Utilizing a magnetron sputtered vacuum deposition (MSVD) solar control, low-emissivity (low-e) coating, Solarban® R77 glass joins Vitro Glass’s family of neutral-reflective low-e glasses to showcase reflectivity that is higher than that of Solarban® 67 glass but lower than that of Solarban® R100 glass.
Thanks to its balanced, reflective visual quality, Solarban® R77 glass is ideal for realizing façade and curtainwall designs intended to capture the visual character of the sky and ambient environment.
On the building exterior, Solarban® R77 glass offers a crisp, silver-blue transmitted color. On the building interior, Solarban® R77 glass provides clear exterior views and soft, natural, neutral daylighting. Its low interior reflectance means Solarban® R77 glass offers crisp, lively views of the outdoors.
Solarban® R77 glass must always be heat-treated, even for laminated applications commonly suited for annealed glass.
Solarvolt™ Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Modules
Solarvolt™ building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) glass modules allow you to use Vitro Glass products to produce CO2-free power — and even potentially replace conventional building components like wall cladding. To meet design and environmental performance objectives, Solarvolt™ BIPV modules can be used with Solarban® low-e coatings, Starphire Ultra-Clear® glass, Acuity™ low-iron glass, our full range of tinted glasses and virtually any other Vitro Glass product.
Next-generation, energy-efficient design is inevitable when you start with new Solarvolt™ BIPV modules by Vitro Architectural Glass.
Applications include building facades, sunshading, overhead glazing and balustrades.
