Clearview National October 2014 - Issue 155 | Page 70
GLASS&SEALEDUNITS
Triple-Glazing
Products – more
than just efficient
Hampshire installer and home
improvement specialist KJM Group
reports that triple-glazing now
accounts for 20 per cent of its
standard PVC-U product sales.
Getting tougher,
warmer with
new low-E glass
»»Europe’s leading
low-E glass has been made even
better with the launch of the
next evolution of the acclaimed
PLANITHERM TOTAL+ from
Saint-Gobain Glass.
The new PLANITHERM
TOTAL+ has an increased
g-value, making higher WERs
more achievable, and a more
robust coating to maximise
manufacturers’ yield and reduce
associated losses.
The g-value is stepped up
from 0.71 to 0.73 with the
use of SGG’s new lower-iron
PLANICLEAR float substrate
and further enhancements to
the coating, giving higher solar
gain to contribute to WER
banding and improved aesthetics
through greater transparency.
For IGU manufacturers, its
improved magnetron coating
has greater mechanical strength
and scratch-resistance, reducing
the wastage from accidental
damage.
Saint-Gobain Glass Marketing
Manager, Susan Lambeth said:
“This new PLANITHERM
TOTAL+ gives higher WER
performance, including the
ability to deliver the new A+
band more easily and greater
efficiencies to our customer.
“Saint-Gobain Glass has
always been a leader in
magnetron coating technology,
as well as the development of
all kinds of advanced glazing
and this latest evolution will be
a major factor in retaining this
lead.”
PLANICLEAR, which forms
the substrate of the new
PLANITHERM TOTAL+ was
launched earlier this year as a
lower-iron glass, giving higher
light transmission and solar gain
without the price-exclusivity of a
specialist full low-iron product.
PLANITHERM has been a
residential market leader for
over 12 years. The brand has
been strongly supported by TV
consumer advertising and in the
trade by the Planitherm Installer
Network scheme.
For more information on
Saint-Gobain visit www.
saint-gobain-glass.co.uk.
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»»Owner and Managing
Director, Mark Pearce, said that
KJM was seeing sustained and
‘growing interest’ in tripleglazed products from ‘wellinformed consumers’, calling for
a cut in VAT on triple-glazed
ranges.
He said: “People are doing
their research. Customers
buying triple-glazing will
have generally reviewed
products online, they’ll have
an understanding of U-values
and a wider interest in energy
efficiency and sustainable home
improvements.
“At the present it’s the ‘earlyadopters’ who are buying tripleglazed products but the demand
is there and it’s growing.
“What would really accelerate
this growth would be if the
government reduced VAT on
this high thermal specification
window to 5%, that way they
would cost little more than our
standard “A” rated double glazed
units.”
“Triple-glazing gives you
some pretty strong messaging”,
explained Pearce. “It offers 40
per cent better insulation over
our ‘A’ rated double-glazed
products. “If you emphasis the
add-on benefits, for example the
acoustic advantages of laminated
glass, the argument in favor of
triple-glazed products becomes
very strong.”
For more information visit
www.kjmgroup.co.uk
email [email protected] or
call 01264 359355.
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