The increasingly growing market for high-performance energy-efficient glass has prompted Emirates Glass to install a new sputter-coating line at its facilities in Al Quoz industrial area.

This new equipment, which will be integrated into the existing production facilities, will yield up to three times more capacity for glass coating and will offer strong potential for the development of new “Emicool” high-performance glass products to meet the needs of a market whose “green consciousness” is growing daily, says Arthur Millwood, technical and training manager with Emirates Glass.
“When completed early next year, Emirates Glass will become the largest architectural glass-processing organisation in the Middle East under the umbrella of Dubai Investments, and will be even more highly geared to providing tempering, laminating, double-glazing and cathodic sputtering to meet the huge challenges of the booming construction market in the region,” he says.
Emirates Glass’ state-of-the-art glass processing factory was established in 1998 to meet the rapidly growing market for energy-efficient glass. Under the brand name, Emicool, the company entered the market with an excellent range of high-performance reflective coated glass products in which thin, transparent metallic coatings are applied on the glass surface by cathodic sputtering in a full vacuum. This state-of-the-art process is known as Magnetic Sputtered Vacuum Deposition and is used worldwide as a standard process for the production of energy-efficient high-performance glass
Today, Emirates Glass stands as a mature company and market-leader in its own right, with major customers from the UK to Hong Kong, and from Moscow to Johannesburg.
Its project-list now runs into thousands of sites, some huge, some small, but all of them proving the qualities of appearance, performance and durability associated with Emicool sputtered high-performance glass. Typically, some of the major on-going projects that are using or about to use Emirates Glass products are Jumeirah Beach Residences, Palm Jumeirah Villas, Burj Residences, Burj Business Park, Park Place Tower, Etisalat Tower, Al Raha Beach Villas (Abu Dhabi) and City Center (Doha) among many others.
Through the extensive Emicool range of sputter-coated solar-control and thermal insulation glass products, Emirates Glass has been able to create a rainbow-range of high-performance glass to satisfy the most stringent demands of contemporary architecture for colour, light, comfort and efficiency in all types of building, whether air-conditioned or heated, and within realistic budgets.
Some of the other recent developments include the launch of Charmline, which is a glass that has been acid-etched on one surface to give a beautiful smooth translucent finish. Charmline is specifically designed as a cladding material and is especially suitable as a spandrel panel in curtain wall facades where the architect and his client can appreciate the elegant translucent satin finish in contrast to transparent vision glazing.  “The market-response has already been excellent and Emirates Glass expects to secure substantial business for this superb glazing material,” said a company spokesman.
Emirates Glass has also recently undergone a major capital expansion in its cutting, tempering and double-glazing departments, and acquired substantial new equipment for edge-grinding and polishing, drilling of holes, and cutting of complex shapes.
All of the plant is now in productive use, and has enabled Emirates Glass to maintain a satisfactory flow of huge quantities of finished Emicool glass products to its customers at home and overseas. Furthermore, the flat architectural laminated glass section of its sister-company, Lumiglass, which is located on the same plot in Al Quoz, is now under the full control of Emirates Glass, thus further enhancing its in-house product-range.