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Activ™ Blue for Conservatories: The World's First Self Cleaning
Glass is Now Cooler than Ever
A
new version of Pilkington Activ™ has been launched, that provides
a solution for maintaining the appearance of conservatory roofs, while
also keeping interiors cooler.
Developed
following strong calls to Pilkington from its customers for such a product,
Pilkington Activ™ Blue, so called because of its attractive ice
blue tint, offers the self-cleaning properties of the original product,
but with the addition of excellent solar control properties and good
light transmission.
In addition, Pilkington Activ™ Blue is available from stock and
can be processed and manufactured into sealed units quickly and with
minimal special handling and installation requirements.
It may be stored in the same way as ordinary glass, has no limited shelf
life or requirement for edge deletion and can be combined in units with
other glasses, such as Pilkington K Glass™, to provide optimum
thermal and solar performance. Units offered with Pilkington Activ™
Blue benefit from permanent self-cleaning and solar control properties.
Matt Buckley, Marketing Director for Pilkington Building Products, says
that Pilkington Activ™ Blue comes purely as a result of market
demand:
‘The nature of Pilkington Activ™ has always made it an ideal
solution for use in roofs where the continuous cleaning properties keep
the building looking pristine and save large sums of money for specialist
cleaning and maintenance regimes. There are already highly successful
applications of this around the world, in some very prestigious buildings.
‘It was a natural step therefore to produce a product that benefited
the growing conservatory market in the UK, but that can be processed
easily and quickly.
'It provides a product that at once provides the important self-cleaning
properties to keep difficult-to-reach roofs clean and free from mould
and other typical organic contamination, while also significantly reducing
solar gain within the structure.
'Pilkington Activ™ Blue offers an ideal, cost-effective solution
for all conservatory roofs, that is readily available and which will
provide performance for the lifetime of the conservatory itself.’
Pilkington Activ™ is the world's first self cleaning glass and,
three years after its launch, remains the only dual action self cleaning
glass widely available throughout the UK.
Since its launch the product has been widely featured in the press and
on television and has been chosen by thousands of homeowners throughout
the UK, who are now enjoying windows installed with glass that, quite
literally, continually cleans itself using a coating that is activated
by daylight and rain.
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