Vision Glazings

Ultra-Clear Glass

Ordinary glass is green with envy.

Vision Glazings
Starphire^®Ultra-Clear Glass by PPG provides commercial designers with a new and unprecedented option for all their vision glass applications. For entire building facades or retail showroom windows, to maximize light transmission and bring an uncommon brightness and clarity to the interior, no commercially available glazing product comes close to the pristine personality of Starphire glass.

Starphire vision glass is "clearly" remarkable:

Maximum transparency - 5% higher visible light transmittance than ordinary clear glass (in a 1 inch IG Unit)
High fidelity color transmission - undistorted view of exterior
New level of visual brightness and clarity
Jewel-like brilliance and character
Easily fabricated to required specifications

For vision glazings where enhanced energy performance is required, Starphire glass can be combined with Solarban 60 solar control Low-E coatings to satisfy energy requirements while maintaining the unique ultra-clear visual character of Starphire glass.

Starphire glass is available in thicknesses from 2.5mm to 19mm and is stocked regionally to assure consistent supply reliability.

Tokyo Kasai Rinkai Park View Visitors Center
Chiba Prefecture, Japan

The ultra-clear character of Starphire glass is exemplified in this Tokyo visitor center project. The difference between the unglazed lower-level breezeway and the Starphire-glazed areas is nearly imperceptible. Contrast that to the green appearance of the glass hand rails which are glazed with conventional clear glass.

Alcoa Corporate Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Starphire glass was the choice of both owner and architect to bring the brightness and color fidelity of the outdoors into this magnificent new structure.