PITTSBURGH, August 12, 2019 — Vitro Architectural Glass (formerly PPG Glass) announced that it has changed the name of Solarban^® 70XL solar control low-emissivity (low-e) glass to Solarban^® 70 glass, formally dropping the “XL”.

Robert J. Struble, manager, brand and communications, Vitro Architectural Glass, emphasized that, despite the name change, there have been no changes to the glass formulation itself. “Since Solarban^® 70XL glass was introduced, the distribution channel, and even our own employees commonly truncated the name to ‘Solarban^® 70,’ so to alleviate confusion throughout the supply chain, we decided to adopt the product name everyone most commonly uses,” he explained. “The product remains available in annealed, heat-strengthened, tempered and laminated version through the Vitro Certified^™ Network of glass fabricators.”

Introduced at the GreenBuild International Conference and Expo in 2006, Solarban^® 70 glass was the first architectural glass to successfully integrate a third layer of reflective silver into a low-e coating. That not only enabled the glass to outperform the best double-silver-coated low-e glasses of the time, it also greatly expanded the opportunity for architects to incorporate large spans of transparent glass into their building designs.

Today, Solarban^® 70 glass remains the industry’s best-performing, most trusted triple-silver-coated, solar control low-e glass. “We know, based on architectural specifications, that Solarban^® 70 is the most preferred triple-silver low-e glass on the market,” Struble noted. “Specifiers have told us that this is due to Solarban^® 70 glass’s consistent levels of quality and color uniformity, as well as performance.”

Solarban^® 70 glass has been specified for thousands of buildings, including recent high-profile projects such as Bjarke Ingels’ VIA 57 West in New York and 181 Fremont by Heller Manus Architects, the new 55-story LEED^® Platinum-certified tower in San Francisco. In addition, many residential and commercial window manufacturers are expanding their use of Solarban^® 70 glass to meet increasingly stringent energy performance codes.

Due to its proprietary, triple-silver coating, Solarban^® 70 glass transmits 64 percent of the sun’s light in a standard one-inch insulating glass unit (IGU), while blocking 73 percent of its heat energy. Solarban^® 70 glass also is Cradle to Cradle Certified^™ at the Bronze level by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

For more information about Solarban^® 70 glass, or to request a glass sample, visit www.vitroglazings.com or call 1-855-VTRO-GLS (887-6457).

About Vitro Architectural Glass

Vitro Architectural Glass, part of Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA), is the largest glass producer in the Western Hemisphere, manufacturing a range of industry-leading, energy-efficient, high-performance products such as Solarban^®, Sungate^® and Starphire Ultra-Clear^® glasses. Committed to continually raising the industry standard for sustainability, Vitro was the first U.S. glass manufacturer to have its entire collection of architectural glass products earn Cradle to Cradle Certified^® status and the first North American manufacturer to publish third-party verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for flat glass and processed glass products. Additionally, all Vitro architectural glass products meet the Top 20% Low Embodied Carbon (LEC) material category based on standards set by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Vitro operates seven glass production facilities across North America, four residential glass fabrication plants in Canada and one of the world’s largest glass research and development facilities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit VitroGlazings.com.

Media Contact:
Robert J. Struble
Vitro Architectural Glass
412-820-8138
rstruble@vitro.com
www.vitroglazings.com