Glaston Oyj : Innovation Days 2021 – a three-day virtual event presenting the...

Glaston Corporation Press release 24 May 2021

Taking place from June 16^th to June 18^th 2021, Glaston is organizing the first ever Glaston Innovation Days, a virtual customer event on thelatest innovations and trends in architectural, automotive and display glass processing. At the event, Glaston's product and industry experts share their insights on the latest developments in glass processing technologies demonstrating new exciting opportunities.

During the three-day virtual event, starting on Wednesday, June 16^th, two sessions are organized daily, one in the morning and the other one in the afternoon thereby enabling easy attendance for participants around the world, from all time zones.

'As we all know, possibilities for face-to-face meetings and factory visits have been extremely limited during the past year and also exhibitions have been postponed. Given the current circumstances, Glaston Innovation Days is our way to share information with our customers on new trends and showcase our latest products and services', says Glaston's President and CEO Anders Dahlblom.

In Glaston's R&D work, projects and innovations related to a higher level of automation and utilizing the possibilities offered by digitalization, have been firmly at the center of development, and positive progress has been made. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of remote services and support, and at Glaston, last year saw an increasing demand for digital and cloud-based solutions.

The architectural glass sessioncovers, among other things, industry-leading development on digitalization and automation of flat tempering and laminating processes as well as information on the new insulating glass solutions like e.g. the new glass arrissing machine MULTI'ARRISSER and CORNER'REFINER for sealed IG units. In addition, Glaston Services for architectural glass presents the Service Upgrade Kits for insulating glass equipment as well as the Virtual Engineer.

In the automotive and display glass session, insight is shared on thin-glass pre-processing and a new automotive glass machine generation is presented. Solutions for demanding bent glass applications such as complex windshields and sunroofs are also covered in the session. Subscription-based services and the Virtual Engineer are introduced by Glaston's services experts. For display glass solutions Glaston shares its know-how on the latest innovations and trends in processing of display glass for various application fields.

The registration for this customer event is now open at www.gid-glaston.net. More detailed information about the sessions is also available on www.gid-glaston.net.

Glaston Corporation
Pia Posio, VP, Communications, Marketing & IR, Tel [phone]

Glaston in brief

Glaston is the glass processing industry's innovative technology leader supplying equipment, services and solutions to the architectural, automotive, solar and appliance industries. The company also supports the development of new technologies integrating intelligence to glass.

Glaston is committed to providing its clients with both the best know-how and the latest technologies in glass processing, with the purpose of building a better tomorrow through safer, smarter, and more energy efficient glass solutions. Glaston operates globally with manufacturing, services and sales offices in 10 countries and its shares (GLA1V) are listed on NASDAQ Helsinki Ltd.