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The brands behind the glass.

Product names like Solarban, SunGuard, and LoE-272 show up constantly in glass specs, but rarely with context. These profiles cover the six manufacturers and coaters referenced across LiteSpec: who they are, what they make, and where their products turn up in our articles and product database.

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Vitro Architectural Glass
Flat-glass and coatings business spun off from PPG Industries in 2016, part of Vitro S.A.B. de C.V., one of Mexico's largest industrial companies.
Cheswick, Pennsylvania, USA
SolarbanStarphireSungate
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Guardian Glass
Vertically integrated float-glass manufacturer and coater founded in 1932, owned by Koch Industries since 2017.
Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
SunGuardClimaGuardUltraClear
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Cardinal Glass Industries
Privately held since 1962, and unusual among major producers for manufacturing float glass and fabricating finished IGUs under one roof.
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
LoE-180LoE-272LoE-366
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Pilkington
Founded in 1826; invented the float-glass process in 1959, still the basis of virtually all flat glass made today. Part of Japan's NSG Group since 2006.
St Helens, England, UK
OptithermSuncoolOptiwhite
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AGC Glass
One of the world's largest flat-glass producers, formerly known as Asahi Glass Company, founded in Tokyo in 1907.
Tokyo, Japan
StoprayPlanibelClearvision
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Saint-Gobain Glass
French multinational chartered in 1665 to glaze the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the world.
Courbevoie, France
SGG PlanithermCool-LiteDiamant
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