Appleton

History Back in 2006, the global glass manufacturer - Pilkington invested the largest low iron furnace at its time in Taicang, which was built by Pilkington’s global rolled glass technology. In the past decade, the factory had been supplying solar glass to the most well-known photo-voltaic panel manufactures in the world. U-Profiled Channel Glass Production While keep its solar glass production, the factory started to manufacture low-iron U channel glass and supply the global market in 2016. In 2017, the company has been re-established as ‘Appleton’ and completely remove the solar glass sector focusing on U channel glass production only. Why Appleton Every single piece of Appleton Uniprof U channel glass is produces as per European standard EN572-7 ‘Wired or Unwired Channel Shaped Glass’, which is currently the world’s strictest standard for channel glass whilst some manufacturers is applying JCT867-2000 ‘Construction U Shape Glass ’, an inferior industry standard. The surface strength of both annealed and toughened U glass has been tested by DGI (Deutsches Glasbau Institut GmbH). The glass quality is as good as any saleable channel glass in the European market.