Edition 57 (Jan-Mar, 2020)

Event
Edgetech Europe at Fensterbau
Frontale
To Demonstrate Advantages Of Super Spacer® For Automated Processes
Mass customisation, is often proclaimed one of the formulae for success for products and
services in the 21st century. At the Fensterbau Frontale trade fair, Edgetech Europe will
demonstrate the advantages of the flexible Super Spacer® for automated processes in the
digital age.
Customised made-to-measure
windows have characterised the
fields of window construction
and insulating glass production since
time immemorial. Due to intense
competition and the great pressure
to be efficient, a large portion of the
industry has effected the transition
towards industrial-style production.
Last but not least, energy requirements
and the trend towards large glass
surfaces as well as curved and
free-formed glazing are constantly
presenting the industry with new
challenges.
Through the use of intelligent
automation, insulating glass
manufacturers are capable, on the
one hand, of taking advantage of
the economies of scale offered by
producing higher volumes and, on the
other hand, of economically realising
even out of the ordinary customer
requirements in batch size 1.
“Automation-ready components
are required in order to transform
this customer-oriented thinking
into digitised production. Edgetech
considers itself best equipped to
meet this challenge. Flexible spacers
such as Super Spacer can now really
demonstrate their benefits,” Joachim
Stoss, Managing Director of Edgetech
Europe GmbH and Vice President
International Sales at Quanex,
confidently claims.
Very high levels of investment are
required for activities that arise from
the processing of rigid spacers, such
as bending, desiccant filling or the
joining of the sections, especially for
small and medium-sized companies.
If flexible spacers from the roll are
applied automatically, the majority
of set-up times are eliminated and
the line is flexible to the maximum
possible extent in terms of the window
dimensions, glass type, number of
panes and spacer width. “Super Spacer
is set in parallel down to the last
millimetre and guarantees a visually
appealing and above all tight edge
seal,” adds Johannes von Wenserski,
authorised signatory of the company
based in Heinsberg.
The warm edge has gained a market
share in the spacers sector of over
50 % in almost every single country
in Europe. “The core function of our
spacers as a warm edge remains the
ongoing number 1 issue for our visitors
at the Fensterbau Frontale trade fair,”
Johannes von Wenserski continues.
“In the end, the best overall package
of Psi values, climate protection, room
comfort, flexibility and production
efficiency will decide which solution
will edge its way to the front in the
market.”
About Edgetech Europe
GmbH
Edgetech’s Super Spacer® flexible
foam-based spacer systems act as
energy-efficient warm edge spacers
in insulating glass windows. They
significantly reduce energy loss to the
outside, largely prevent condensation
and also contribute to the lifetime of
a window. On an average, worldwide,
more than 300 million metres are sold
annually in over 90 countries.
Edgetech Europe GmbH, located
in Heinsberg Germany, is a fullyowned
subsidiary of Quanex Building
Products Corporation, an industryleading
manufacturer of components
sold to Original Equipment
Manufacturers (OEMs) in the building
products industry.
Based in Houston, Texas, Quanex
designs and manufactures energyefficient
fenestration products, in
addition to kitchen and bath cabinet
components.
Email: info@edgetech-europe.com
Website: www.superspacer.com
54 Glass Bulletin | January - March, 2020