Colors and Additives for Architectural Glazing

Traditionally, architectural glazing applications have been manufactured using glass. While glass is still used in large quantities for these applications, the use of polymers for windows, skylights, swimming pool halls, walkways, winter gardens, greenhouses, signs and panels is growing at a rapid pace. Polymers, such as polycarbonate (PC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyethylene terephthalate co-polyester (PET-G), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or styrenics, offer a variety of advantages in architectural glazing applications including weight reduction, impact resistance for greater safety, and flexibility in design. With polymers, glazing can be made in a variety of colors, designs and complex shapes.

For architectural glazing applications Ciba offers a wide array of effects including color and-, durability, and actively continues to develop novel solutions such as UV and IR light management to meet the latest technology trends and market needs. If you are looking for a new effect, please contact us.

Acrylic Sheets

The requirements of the building industry for acrylic sheets call for high performance products. Ciba offers innovative solutions and effects to help meet these stringent requirements for stabilization and coloration of acrylic sheets, and provides special effects as well as More...

Ciba offers tailored solutions for your needs in plastic building materials using innovative colors and additives for architectural glazing applications and many other end uses such as roofing, profiles, pipes and conduits, siding, flooring, wood replacements, geomembranes, insulation, decorative foils and public seating. If you do not find your application here, contact us about your specific needs.

Polycarbonate Sheets

There are many varieties of PC sheets including monolithic sheets, corrugated sheets, and twin- and multi-wall sheets, all of them produced in monolayer or coextruded versions. The sheets are characterized by very low initial color and haze values, very high transparency, gloss and excellent impact properties. It is important to protect these properties throughout the lifetime of the application, keeping performance and appearance of the PC sheets at an optimum level as long as possible. More...

Polyester Sheets and Films

It is important to protect the attractive properties such as color or transparency of polyester sheets and films throughout the lifetime of the application, keeping performance and appearance of such polyester based sheets and films on a very high level as long as possible. More...