Saint-Gobain Glass is to launch SGG Planitherm Total 1.3, a toughenable and durable high performance low-E glass. The new glass will be manufactured on the UK's first magnetron coater, housed in a £15M facility opened at the company's Eggborough site. The new soft coated low-E glass, SGG Plaintherm Total 1.3 is supplied in a single version that can be used in either annealed or toughened form, has a durable easy to process coating, an optimum U-value of 1.3 W/m2K and a neutral appearance in both reflection and transmission. SG's Marketing Director Derek Dragten said: "It was the first Low-E glass to offer many of the benefits of traditional hard coat products, together with superior performance and aesthetics that the market has come to expect." The magnetron coater was officially opened by Patrick Roux-Vaillard, general delegate Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland.
