Building Products - Overview
Our Building Products business line is engaged in manufacturing float and rolled glass, coating, toughening and silvering. It also produces other processed building glass products for exterior and interior applications and glass for the growing solar energy sector.
Key message
Buildings account for almost 50 percent of the energy consumed in developed countries. Increased focus is being placed on legislation and policies to improve their energy efficiency.
Our products play a vital role in improving energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions. They also offer other advanced functionality, protecting against fire, insulating against noise, offering safety and security, privacy, decoration and even self-cleaning properties.
Glass has an important role to play in the development of the growing Solar Energy sector. We supply products for all three of the leading technologies, converting power from the sun into clean renewable energy.
Supplying glass for architectural, Solar Energy and technical applications
People
10,300 employees in 21 countries.
Manufacturing
Principal operations in 21 countries. Manage, or have a stake in, 49 Float lines around the world.
Global spread
Major presence in Europe, Japan, North America. Also in China, South America
and South East Asia.
Main products
- Solar control glass
- Thermal insulation glass
- Fire-resistant glass
- Noise control glazing
- Safety and security glazing
- Self-cleaning glass
- Glass for solar energy
Brand
Our Building Products business uses the ‘Pilkington’ brand
The brand is closely identified with technical excellence and service in the glass industry. Pilkington, acquired by NSG Group in 2006, invented the Float Process, through which most of the world’s high quality glass in made.
