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TGP AND SGC EXPAND DISTRIBUTION OF FIRE-RATED GLASS PRODUCTS IN NORTHEAST
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Snoqualmie, Wash., Jan. 27, 2023
Meeting demand for fire-rated glazing across the northeast market, Syracuse Glass Company, LLC., (SGC) now offers FireLite NT and FireLite Plus glass ceramic products from Technical Glass Products (TGP).
SGC has over a century of outstanding service throughout New York, Pennsylvania and New England. Together, SGC and TGP will help provide architects, glaziers and other building professionals within this extensive customer network access to fire-rated glazing that offers superior color, clarity and surface quality—making inspiring and code compliant spaces easier.
“We’re excited to pair FireLite’s proven performance capabilities with SGC’s longstanding record of outstanding service,” says Devin Bowman, general manager at TGP. Bowman continues, “They’ve helped architects and glaziers solve glazing challenges for over a century and now can provide customers with access to fire-rated glazing that offers superior color, clarity and surface quality. Both our commitments to meeting customer needs ensures a smooth process from specification to delivery.”
Joseph Gudenburr IV, president & CEO of SGC, echoes these sentiments, “We’re looking forward to this new relationship. Our clients value service and greatly appreciate the convenience of our route and fleet capabilities as well as our customer service. Our two companies share the same philosophy regarding servicing the market and many of the same longstanding clients. Adding TGP’s FireLite® family of products to our lineup makes it easier for our customers to build inspiring and code compliant spaces. TGP and SGC together is the answer to their needs.”
FireLite is a clear and wireless glass ceramic that offers outstanding fire protection. The FireLite family of products includes: FireLite, FireLite Plus®, FireLite NT and FireLite IGU. Fire ratings range from 20 to 90 minutes (180 minutes within door assemblies), and all the FireLite products pass the required hose stream test.
In addition, FireLite Plus and FireLite NT offer high impact safety ratings (meeting CPSC 16CFR1201, Category II requirements).
All products feature TGP’s ultraHD™ Technology for improved color, clarity and surface quality.
A brand of Allegion, TGP is your one source for fire-rated glass and framing systems, along with specialty architectural glass products. For more information on the FireLite family of products, along with TGP’s other fire-rated glass and framing products, visit www.fireglass.com or call (800) 426-0279.
Customers can contact Syracuse Glass Company, LLC., at:
Syracuse Glass Company, LLC
1 General Motors Drive
PO Box 381
Syracuse, NY 13206
(315) 437-9971 or (800) 962-3211
info@syracuseglass.com
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SYRACUSE GLASS BECOMES A MEMBER OF THE VITRO CERTIFIED™ FABRICATOR NETWORK
Syracuse Glass is now a Vitro/PPG Authorized vitro certified™ fabricator
March 2022 – Launched in 2001 by Vitro Architectural Glass (formerly PPG Glass), the Vitro Certified™ Network was created to provide high-performance coated glass through regional fabricators and glass manufacturers dedicated to delivery of quality fabricated glass with short lead times.
“We have long valued the partnership that we have had with Vitro and appreciate the thorough and comprehensive audit and qualification process that we completed to be added to this program. This certification allows us to bring the full line of Vitro products to our clients and comes at an appropriate time as we not only grow our presence in our core market, but also continue to expand throughout New England,” said Syracuse Glass Company Chief Executive Officer Joe Gudenburr.
The TEAM at Syracuse Glass Company (SGC) has long been a supplier of fabricated glass products supplied by Vitro, and as a newly Vitro Certified™ Network Partner, SGC can provide the full line of Vitro glass and technical solutions.
“Vitro is pleased to add Syracuse Glass to our Vitro Certified™ Network of fabricators. All Vitro Certified™ Network members are carefully vetted and audited to deliver the utmost quality and service to glaziers across the country and around the globe. We are proud of our partnership with our customers, like Syracuse Glass, and are excited about their future success,” noted Joanne Funyak, director of the Vitro Certified™ Network and Customer Service.
Members of the Vitro Certified™ Network have access to some of the industry’s most advanced training and education on glass handling and fabrication to maintain consistency in both color and quality, as well as reliability of product performance.
Vitro Certified™ Fabricators are the exclusive source of Vitro Architectural Glass high-performance Solarban® solar control low-e glass products and can accommodate special shape and configuration requests. Count on them to deliver quality fabricated glass with outstanding service and quick turnaround times, critical when lead times are tight. With locations throughout the United States and Canada, a Vitro Certified™ Fabricator is available to provide Vitro glass products wherever they’re needed.
Media Contact:
Syracuse Glass Company
800.962.3211
info@syracuseglass.com
Vitro Certified™ is a trademark owned by Vitro.
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TEMPERED GLASS THAT REFLECTS WELL ON YOU!
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Our new state-of-the-art Glaston FC-500 tempering furnace makes the flattest, best looking tempered glass available anywhere! We are the second glass fabricator in the nation to install this new technology.
In addition to the full convection and precise computer controls engineered into this furnace by industry leader Glaston of Finland, we’ve added a Lite Sentry optical distortion measurement scanner. Each piece we produce is photographed and evaluated for deviation from flatness on line, in real time, and the results are immediately displayed for our furnace operators.
As a result, we can fine tune the furnace settings, and produce very flat tempered glass, even glass with high performance solar control low emissivity coatings, which are very challenging to heat evenly because of the way the coatings reflect heat energy.
We’re serious about producing high quality tempered glass. In 2002, Syracuse Glass bought a UNIGLASS full convection tempering furnace, the second in the US, and the first full convection furnace in our market area, and now also featuring a Lite Sentry scanning device. We continue to invest and improve our processes to maintain the quality advantage that we’ve earned over the years.
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GUARDIAN INDUSTRIES NEW ENHANCED ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WEBSITE
Guardian Industries has enhanced its architectural glass website , www.sunguardglass.com
Several new tools have been added, including the glass appearance selector, which allows the user to see how combinations of different glass substrates and coatings appear in the transmitted and reflected light. Project photos are also included.
Go to and book mark www.sunguardglass.com - The most useful technical resource for architectural glass product by global industry leader Guardian Industries.
Guardian Industries offers these world class products to Sunguard Select Fabricator Syracuse Glass Company from its Geneva, NY float glass plant.
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FRAMELESS HEADER-FREE SHOWER ENCLOSURE SYSTEM
Use the new CR Laurence design criteria for totally frameless shower enclosures – without headers!
Call Tiffany Humphrey in our office for the design criteria, or download it from our website – go to technical information, shower enclosures section.
As long as these criteria are followed, a header-free enclosure is permitted based on engineering performed by CR Laurence.
As with any other shower enclosure, the CRL Showers Online software manages the glass dimensions, hardware cutouts and locations, and clearances. And our CNC fabrication and convection tempering furnace produce glass that meets or exceeds industry standards.
Click on the Frameless Shower Enclosures tab on the left side of this page for more information about Syracuse Glass’s custom heavy glass shower door offerings.
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Typical Header-Free Design
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SYRACUSE GLASS BECOMES A GUARDIAN SUNGUARD SELECT FABRICATOR
Syracuse Glass is teaming up with Guardian Industries to produce high quality, high performance coated insulating glass as a Sunguard Select Fabricator. This alliance represents a CLEAR NEW ALTERNATIVE for Glazing Contractors, Design Professionals and Building Owners looking for insulating glass with best-in-class APPEARANCE and PERFORMANCE with reasonable LEAD TIMES.
Guardian Industries is a global glass industry leader with a particularly strong expertise in advanced glass coatings. Guardian has five large-scale glass coaters in the U.S., including one at their GENEVA, NY FLOAT GLASS PLANT, just one hour by truck from our location! This tremendous local resource enables us to offer some of the industry’s fastest service, even with traditionally difficult and expensive to obtain “soft coated” solar control tempered insulating glass. Guardian’s TECHNICAL SUPPORT is also readily available.
Syracuse Glass has been manufacturing insulating glass since 1972, and dual seal insulating glass with LISEC vertical equipment since 1989. In 2002, Syracuse Glass acquired a UNIGLASS convection tempering furnace, the second such furnace in North America. Convection furnaces are required to temper these challenging post-temperable “soft-coated” glass products without excessive distortion.
Since 2003, Syracuse Glass has produced insulating glass with Guardian’s SN-68 solar control low emissivity glass for applications where high light transmission and high control of solar heat gain are called for. This product is an equal performer to PPG’s Solarban 60 or Viracon’s VE1-2M. We can also provide SN-68 as an inboard lite with a tinted or reflective outboard lite where a colored appearance is desired.
Under the Sunguard Select Fabricator Program, we can now offer SN-54, the second option in Guardian’s Super Neutral Series, as well as seven additional coating options in their High Performance Series.
For more information or a personal visit, call us, or visit www.SunGuardGlass.com, or our website’s insulating glass technical area, which contains a product catalog and competitor comparison chart.
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GUARDIAN SHOWERGUARD AVAILABLE FROM SYRACUSE GLASS
Syracuse Glass is pleased to be among an elite group of glass fabricators to offer Guardian ShowerGuard – an innovative coated glass product designed especially for frameless shower applications.
ShowerGuard glass contains a PERMANENT surface coating that is easy to clean, chemically durable, and optically transparent. Guardian’s patented ion beam process uses diamond-like carbon to produce a temperable coating that keeps minerals, scale, and soap scum from adhering to the glass surface.
ShowerGuard is a great choice for residential as well as commercial hospitality applications where glass appearance and cleaning effort are of concern.
Syracuse Glass is offering ShowerGuard in 3/8” and ½” thickness, with the flatness and quality made possible by our Uniglass convection tempering furnace.
For more information, contact us, or go to www.showerguardglass.com |
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SN-68 SOLAR CONTROL LOW E AVAILABLE FROM SYRACUSE GLASS
Syracuse Glass has been certified by Guardian Industries as a fabricator of Guardian's high performance solar control low e product - Super Neutral 68.
Super Neutral 68, or SN-68, is a state-of-the-art "soft" coated product, produced at Guardian's Geneva, NY plant. It has the performance that today's architects and building owners are looking for:
CLEAR APPEARANCE - When insulated with ¼" clear glass, SN-68 allows 68% light transmission compared to 73% for regular 1" clear insulating units!
SOLAR CONTROL - SN-68 has a shading coefficient of .43 when insulated with ¼" clear glass. That's about equal to the performance of a bronze Solarcool reflective I.G. unit, and that's pretty remarkable for glass that looks clear. When combined with a tinted outboard lite, the solar control properties can be further enhanced. Building owners love this feature - it means lower air conditioning bills and greater occupant comfort.
THERMAL PERFORMANCE - This product has a nighttime U value of .29 with an air filled airspace, compared to .33 for our traditional "hard coat" low e, about a 14% increase in thermal value.
This product offering has benefits for you, our valued customer too, in that WE CAN CUSTOM TEMPER THE PRODUCT ON SITE . This eliminates the long lead times, boxing costs, and freight costs many times associated with high performance architectural insulating glass product orders.
These temperable soft coated products are really amazing, the result of a lot of research and development efforts by many in our industry. SN-68 is an equal product to Viracon's VE1-2M or PPG's Solarban 60. These products are challenging to work with as a fabricator because of their delicate nature, and the way they resist heating during the tempering process. But our people and our high tech UNIGLASS convection tempering furnace are up to the task.
Count on us at Syracuse Glass to provide a product that meets or exceeds Guardian's standards that you can feel confident in using on your architectural projects. |
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ALL GLASS ENTRANCES FROM SYRACUSE GLASS
Syracuse Glass has teamed up with hardware powerhouse CR Laurence to offer ALL GLASS COMMERCIAL ENTRANCES. This alliance builds on the strengths of both organizations to produce a complete, coordinated, user- friendly solution for the Upstate New York construction community.
Syracuse Glass provides the high quality convection tempered glass with many different glass types and fabrication options, with fast lead times and low freight costs. CR Laurence provides their industry leading software product, and an extensive selection of hardware designed to suit any design professional or building owner. As an additional bonus for the glazing industry, the CRL Wedge-Lock system enables field adjustment, just one feature that makes this system the easiest all glass entrance product to install on the market today. Call for our brochure, our complete catalog, or a personal visit to discuss these increasingly popular entrance products. |
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SYRACUSE GLASS IN THE NEWS
Syracuse Glass was featured by the Syracuse Post Standard in an article about the redevelopment of the former General Motors Plant in Syracuse.
We’re proud to be part of the Salina Industrial Power Park, a reuse of one of Upstate New York’s great industrial facilities.
click the links below to see the articles
Web Article link
PDF Article Version
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IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION ON GLASS PRODUCTS !
Check out our Tempered Glass Logos or our Insulating Glass Spacers.
Many of our products have three numbers – the order number, line number, and piece number. This permanent label is applied by a laser, with unique identification information from our powerful FENEVISION software.
With this information, one can determine the exact size, exact glass make-up, the delivery date, or pricing - either by contacting our office, or from our website directly – even at a job site using a smart phone!
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TEMPERED GLASS THAT REFLECTS WELL ON YOU!
Our new state-of-the-art Glaston FC-500 tempering furnace makes the flattest, best looking tempered glass available anywhere! We are the second glass fabricator in the nation to install this new technology.
In addition to the full convection and precise computer controls engineered into this furnace by industry leader Glaston of Finland, we’ve added a Lite Sentry optical distortion measurement scanner. Each piece we produce is photographed and evaluated for deviation from flatness on line, in real time, and the results are immediately displayed for our furnace operators.
As a result, we can fine tune the furnace settings, and produce very flat tempered glass, even glass with high performance solar control low emissivity coatings, which are very challenging to heat evenly because of the way the coatings reflect heat energy.
We’re serious about producing high quality tempered glass. In 2002, Syracuse Glass bought a UNIGLASS full convection tempering furnace, the second in the US, and the first full convection furnace in our market area, and now also featuring a Lite Sentry scanning device. We continue to invest and improve our processes to maintain the quality advantage that we’ve earned over the years.
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ADVANCE SHIPPING NOTICES AVAILABLE
Advance Shipping Notices are available, by email or by fax, to notify you immediately after our truck is loaded the night prior to delivery, of all the materials to expect on the truck.
Phone or email Rick Pulver in our office at extension 52 or rpulver@syracuseglass.com if you’d like to be enrolled in this program.
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