• Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
Call us at 888.619.2226
Glass Paint
  • Home
  • About
  • BUY ONLINE
  • INFO
    • PRODUCTS / DATA / VIDEOS
    • HGTV
    • FAQs
    • Make Your Own Colors
    • LIMITED WARRANTY
  • Gallery
  • Contact Us
  • Blog
  • Search
  • Menu Menu
  • 0Shopping Cart

Bell Works Builds Largest PV Glass Skylight

February 16, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen
glass-paint-bell-labs-glass-skylight

Bell Works Builds Largest PV Skylight

Bell Works, the successor of the former Bell Labs, will be the recipient of the largest photovoltaic glass skylight in the United States. Somerset Development is in the process of renovating the former Bell Labs site, a 2-million square-foot space. When it is complete, the space will host offices, retail, healthcare, dining, recreation, a public library and hotel space.

The complex is located in Holmdel, NJ. The PV system will consist of more than 3,200 skylights and will cover 60,000 square feet of the building’s iconic atrium. The challenge is to renovate the space without interfering with the building’s historical design. The original Bell Labs building was designed by architect Eero Saarinen. Read more

Glass bottle-to-bottle recycling facility set to open

February 15, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen

glass-paint-bottle-to-bottle-glass-recycling

Glass bottle-to-bottle recycling facility set to open

Colorado has taken another step forward in its effort to achieve zero-waste status. Later this month, Momentum Recycling, a Utah company, will open a new bottle-to-bottle recycling plant. The plant will take in container glass and offer a high-quality source for new containers for local bottle manufacturers.

The facility hopes to divert some of the state’s more than 300,000 tons of container glass that currently gets routed to the landfill. Colorado does not have a deposit law on bottles, which means that the state’s average glass recycling rates are on the low end of the spectrum. States with container deposits recycle as much as 60 percent of the container glass in their waste streams. By comparison, Colorado recycles less than 25% of its container glass today. Read more

Eiffel Tower Gets New Glass Wall

February 14, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen
glass-paint-eiffel-tower-glass-wall

Eiffel Tower Gets New Glass Wall

By the end of 2017, the Eiffel Tower in Paris will be surrounded by a 2.5 meter bulletproof glass wall, but many Parisians believe the wall is a mistake. The idea behind the structure is to protect the tower from terrorist attacks. The idea works, but people are finding the design a little hard to swallow.

The city is paying for the $20 million project, but residents view it as a psychological and philosophical affront. The mayor and city council approved the wall in an attempt to address safety concerns for the 6 million tourists that visit the tower each year. Read more

Dangerous winds cause glass loss in NYC

February 13, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen
Dangerous winds cause glass loss in NYC

Dangerous winds cause glass loss in NYC

Heavy wind gusts in New York City forced city officials to issue warnings and close sidewalks as glass panels rained downs on certain parts of the city. The wind gusts, which reached 60 mph at times, were part of a storm system that moved through the Midwest and Northeast over the weekend and on Monday. Read more

Iconic Glass Structures – China Central Television Headquarters

February 12, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen

Iconic Glass Structures – China Central Television Headquarters

Iconic Glass Structures – China Central Television Headquarters

In our ongoing series on iconic glass structures, we’ll look at China Central Television Headquarters (CCTV) in Beijing. The CCTV Headquarters makes heavy use of glass, and was designed and built over a period of eight years, between 2004 and 2012. The building is actually three buildings that have been joined together, and reflects a desire to eschew the standard height-based evaluation of modern commercial architecture.

Construction on the tower was delayed by a massive fire that ripped through an adjacent structure in 2009. The fire caused extensive damage to the building under construction. The CCTV building was nearly complete at the time of the fire, and pushed back the building’s completion by about three years. Read more

Woman hopes glass straws will eliminate plastic

February 11, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen
Woman hopes glass straws will eliminate plastic

Woman hopes glass straws will eliminate plastic

A Michigan woman is hoping to eliminate plastic drinking straws by providing an ultrastrong glass substitute. Daedra Surowiec, of Milford, MI envisioned glass as a way to eliminate some of the millions of plastic drinking straws that end up in landfills annually. She began creating glass drinking straws after taking a class at a local art glass facility.

Glass drinking straws aren’t exactly an easy sell. Prospective buyers are worried that the straw will break while in use. In reality, Surowiec says that of the 10,000 straws her company, Strawesome, produces each year, only about 3% break. The company replaces broken straws at no cost, but Surowiec says that the major culprit behind breakage is impact damage from being dropped. Read more

Identifying metallic glass failures

February 10, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen

Research opens up metallic glass

Research opens up metallic glass

Researchers at Rice University have developed a calculation model that may explain where and why metallic glasses break. Scientists have long known that glasses form stress bands that make glass more prone to breakage in certain spots than others. The same is true of metallic glass – a hybrid glass compound that creates a super-strong material that may have unusual properties usually reserved for metals.

Knowing how and where a metallic glass might break gives engineers an advantage when designing parts that need to be ultra-durable – such as parts for a satellite or space vehicle. Metallic glasses typically deform under stress, but they don’t usually break. Their durability is what makes them ideal for extreme environments, so knowing how, why or when a part may break is critical.

Although the researchers are especially interested in the behavior of metallic glass, their findings could be applied to non-metallic glasses, too. One reason that the glass forms shear bands is that the molecular arrangement of glass (and metallic glass) isn’t crystalline. The amorphous structure of glass allows molecules to continue to move, even when glass has achieved an apparently solid state.

In most cases, when the glass isn’t under stress, molecular movement is imperceptibly slight. When the glass is stressed, however, the molecular movement increases notably. The areas where molecular movement is the greatest coincides with the development of the shear bands in the glass. The shear bands are ultimately the areas of the glass that fail, causing breakage.

The research means that scientists and engineers will be able to more easily calculate the actual strength of glass and metallic glasses quickly. That information can help materials scientists calculate the fitness of a particular glass formulation for a specific application without having to rely on trial-and-error testing.

Glassprimer™ glass paint is a specialized glass coating that bonds permanently to glass surfaces. GlassPrimer also makes a glass surface molecular activator that is designed to work with UV-inkjet glass printing processes. Glassprimer™ glass paint can be used in both interior and exterior applications and can help reduce solar heat gain in some applications. For more information about Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit the rest of our site. If you’d like to purchase Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit our online store .

Photo Credit: Hugh Dutton Associés, via Flickr.com

Ancient Swedish site may solve nuclear riddle

February 9, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen
Ancient Swedish site may solve nuclear riddle

Ancient Swedish site may solve nuclear riddle

Researchers may turn to an ancient Swedish fort for advice about how to manage nuclear waste that is currently stored at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State. Vikings built a massive stone fort at Broborg, which is north of present-day Stockholm. The fort contained a ring of rock that has survived largely intact.

The ancient Vikings used glass and rock to create sturdy fort walls, and that’s caught the attention of researchers who are looking for a way to safely encase radioactive waste for long-term storage. The glass fortifications are particularly interesting because they’ve weathered 1,500 years of exceptional cold, heavy snows and frost heaving without breaking apart.

Studies of the ancient glass have been heartening. The material contains most of the same metal oxides that the researchers intend to use to immobilize the radioactive waste from Hanford.
The plan is to mix the nuclear waste with molten glass and heat the mixture to more than 2,000 degrees. The molten glass will be poured into stainless steel forms and left to harden. The resulting solids will be stored indefinitely.

The glass-rock walls in Sweden were built by Vikings with significant knowledge of metal work. Large rocks were moved into place and the spaces between them were packed with small rocks that the builders knew would melt at relatively low temperatures. The rocks were set ablaze possibly with the use of accelerants of some type, and the melted rocks fused together with the larger rocks, creating an exceptionally durable fortification. Researchers estimate that the Broborg site was built between 375 and 550 AD.

They’re also conducting longevity tests on the newly created radioactive glass to determine how long the glass will keep the materials from leaching into areas around it, and to determine whether more radioactive material can be safely mixed with the glass. The goal is to safely encase the radioactive waste in glass for 10,000 years or more.

Glassprimer™ glass paint is a specialized glass coating that bonds permanently to glass surfaces. GlassPrimer also makes a glass surface molecular activator that is designed to work with UV-inkjet glass printing processes. Glassprimer™ glass paint can be used in both interior and exterior applications and can help reduce solar heat gain in some applications. For more information about Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit the rest of our site. If you’d like to purchase Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit our online store .

Photo Credit: Les Dunford, via Flickr.com

Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Polish glass factory

February 8, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen
Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Polish glass factory

Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Polish glass factory

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year old workshop that apparently produced glass and metal products. The site, on Mount Grojec in south central Poland, contained furnaces, glass beads, glass making equipment, grinders and waste glass. According to the researchers, the factory took in raw glass and metal from elsewhere and created finished goods at the site.

The team plans to examine the raw glass for clues about its origins. The researchers, from the University of Wroclaw, suspect that the materials could have come from as far away as the Mediterranean. The find is surprising because archaeologists had previously thought that no glass making facilities existed in Poland prior to the Middle Ages.

Proof that glass and metal were worked extensively in the area changes the way archaeologists think about the societies that occupied the areas at the time. Evidence of human habitation in the area dates back to the 5th and 6th centuries, BC, but until the discovery of the glass furnaces, researchers had not been able to determine that significant economic activity had taken place there.

Archaeologists found large quantities of glass products near the furnaces. Included in the finds were colored beads and cracked objects that had been abandoned by their makers due to production defects. Crucibles at the site are believed to have been used for smelting bronze. In addition, the archaeologists found grinders, which would have been used to make finished goods.

Also in the area surrounding the glass furnaces were a few buildings that appeared to be homes. Despite the finds, the archaeologists know little about the people who inhabited the area during the time the glass factory was operational. The initial area was excavated from 2012-2014, but the researchers will publish their findings this spring.
Glassprimer™ glass paint is a specialized glass coating that bonds permanently to glass surfaces. GlassPrimer also makes a glass surface molecular activator that is designed to work with UV-inkjet glass printing processes. Glassprimer™ glass paint can be used in both interior and exterior applications and can help reduce solar heat gain in some applications. For more information about Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit the rest of our site. If you’d like to purchase Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit our online store .

Photo Credit: Pawel Kabanski, via Flickr.com

Can glass point the way to cleaner energy?

February 7, 2017/in Blog, Glass Paint/by eileen

Can glass point the way to cleaner energy?

Can glass point the way to cleaner energy?

A researcher at Georgia Tech University thinks that glass may help us understand how to create cleaner energy. Electricity, which is the most common form of generated energy on Earth, is largely generated from burning “fossil fuels” like coal and natural gas. Although electricity itself is “clean,” the process to produce it is pretty dirty. Reducing demand for “dirty” electricity could help reduce global warming without sacrificing the availability of electricity.

Finding ways to reduce demand for electricity is particularly important as more countries in developing nations build their electrical infrastructure. Professor Asegun Henry believes that the key to reducing electricity demand may be found by studying heat transfer at the atomic level.

To unwind the mystery of what happens among atoms, Henry studied glass. In doing so, Henry was able to explain why the thermal conductivity of glass increases as its temperature rises. Unlike other materials, as the temperature of glass rises, it becomes better able to transfer heat among glass atoms.

To find out why, Henry looked at the phonons in glass. Phonons are subatomic particles – on par with electrons and photons – but they come from the collective vibration of atoms in a material. Phonons help scientists predict the thermal conductivity of conventional solids – those that form a crystalline structure.

Glass isn’t an ordinary solid, and its molecules don’t form a crystalline structure. The formulas that scientists use to predict thermal conductivity in crystalline solids don’t work for amorphous materials like glass. Collective atomic vibrations in glass are very different, so they’re much harder to describe mathematically. Unique atomic vibrations can be created in glass by clusters of just a few atoms.

The working assumption was that the small, unique or localized vibrations didn’t make any meaningful contributions to heat transfer among the atoms in glass. Henry’s research challenged this assumption and found that these localized vibrations contribute significantly to heat transfer among the atoms in glass. He also determined that the localized vibrations were also responsible for the increase in the thermal conductivity of glass as the temperature increases.

Understanding how heat transfers through glass could potentially lead to discoveries that reduce heat transfer through glass. That’s important because glass used in buildings is responsible for a substantial amount of heat loss. Interrupting heat transfer among glass molecules could significantly reduce the demand for electricity by making building glass more efficient.

Glassprimer™ glass paint is a specialized glass coating that bonds permanently to glass surfaces. GlassPrimer also makes a glass surface molecular activator that is designed to work with UV-inkjet glass printing processes. Glassprimer™ glass paint can be used in both interior and exterior applications and can help reduce solar heat gain in some applications. For more information about Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit the rest of our site. If you’d like to purchase Glassprimer™ glass paint, please visit our online store .

Photo Credit: Andy Smith, via Flickr.com

Page 7 of 41«‹56789›»
Popular
  • Customer Reviews / Post your ReviewsMarch 1, 2010 - 9:21 am
  • Glass Paint ForumMay 10, 2010 - 3:55 pm
  • We are Professional Grade Glass PaintSeptember 11, 2014 - 11:51 am
  • VOC Compliance…September 11, 2014 - 11:59 am
Recent
  • What kind of paint can be used on glass?October 17, 2017 - 5:05 pm
  • Tips for using glass paintOctober 17, 2017 - 4:55 pm
  • How to use glass paintOctober 17, 2017 - 4:47 pm
  • Backpainted glass backsplash is a great seasonal project
    Backpainted glass backsplash is a great seasonal projec...June 29, 2017 - 12:00 pm
Comments
Tags
art glass backpainted glass colored glass commercial glass container glass decorating with glass energy efficient glass flat glass frosted glass glass glass bridge Glass Building glass buildings glass coating glass coatings glass decorating glass decoration glass design glass doors glass paint glass paint bathroom glass painting glass paint kitchen glass paint projects glass pool glass printing glass recycling glass strength Gorilla glass how to paint glass iconic glass structures interior glass low e glass metallic glass opaque glass painted glass painting glass photovoltaic glass radioactive glass recycled glass recycling glass safety glass smart glass stained glass tempered glass

Categories

  • Activator
  • Blog
  • Glass Paint
  • Home slider
  • home-first-coloum
  • home-first-row
  • home-second-column
  • home-testimonial-row
  • Skip
  • Uncategorized

ABOUT

Glass Paint – self-priming/permanent-bonding glass paint began outside of the USA in early 1997. In late 2003 Glass Paint moved to the USA for distribution in North America.

QUICK MENU

  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Glass Paint FaQs
  • LIMITED WARRANTY
  • PRODUCTS / DATA / VIDEOS
  • Sitemap

Products

  • Complete Package, Glass Paint Component “A/B” GPPP083®/GPUC083® (Self-Priming Glass Paint/Catalyst) Complete Package, Glass Paint Component “A/B” GPPP083®/GPUC083® (Self-Priming Glass Paint/Catalyst) $265.00
  • Glass Paint Component “A” GPPP083® (Self-Priming Glass Paint only) **Catalyst required Glass Paint Component “A” GPPP083® (Self-Priming Glass Paint only) **Catalyst required $190.00

CONTACT INFO

USA / International

Toll Free: 888.619.2226
Atlanta, Georgia: 718.374.5229
Brooklyn, New York: 718.374.5229
Fax: 888.619.2226
E-Mail: [email protected]
© 2024 Glass Paint. All rights reserved - Enfold Theme by Kriesi
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
Scroll to top