It’s called Ecosat Screen, coming in plates measuring 2250/2400 x 3210 mm, and it’s a special new satin-finish glass that can undergo all the thermal and mechanical processes for flat glass. Of these, the most interesting is a combination of digital printing and bending, which together can produce glass with a new identity and capable of faithfully simulating other materials, even surpassing their technical possibilities. For example, this combination can be used to replicate the effect of sinuous marble, almost a “veil of marble”, 4 mm thick, which would be difficult to achieve with marble itself (currently in trend). The photographic reproduction with digital printing, on the shiny side of the glass, is enhanced on the other side by Ecosat Screen’s satin-finish surface, which softens the cold brilliance of the glass.

The spread of digital printing on glass.

No longer the exclusive domain of the graphics industry, digital printing is becoming increasingly common in many sectors and is chosen by glass transformers because it can faultlessly reproduce any image thanks to an extremely wide range of colours and high level definition. It is thus becoming possible to personalize glass. Two types of printing are used here:

• Cold. The more widespread of the two, this process prints on already tempered glass intended exclusively for installation in interiors.

• Hot. For external applications, the glass must be enamelled. Basically, colour is digitally printed, “hot”, using ceramic paints that are vitrified with the base float due to the high temperatures reached during the tempering process (640° C). Colours thus become resistant to UV light (sunlight), high and low temperatures and very high levels of humidity. This process makes the glass scratch-proof and above all unalterable in terms of colour rendering and therefore ideal for external applications such as façades and parapets or in very humid places like spas and wellness facilities, boats and similar. Hot digital printing systems are only used by the more specialized glass transformers.

Ecosat Screen. Not only digital printing.

The innovative Ecosat Screen satin-finish glass also lends itself to more traditional printing methods, such as silkscreen printing, this too always on the shiny side. The other side is finely satinized, pleasant to the touch and easy to clean. Its certified scratch resistance makes it ideal for work tops on which metal objects in daily use (knives, scissors, pens, etc.) may cause abrasions. Further, Ecosat Screen provides a perfect surface for writing: certified against stains, even the most difficult to remove (such as felt-tip pen ink for whiteboards), it can be wiped perfectly clean without absorbing the slightest trace.
Such qualities make it valuable for both work tops, tables and other horizontal surfaces and wall installations. Regarding the latter, here are two interesting applications:

• in the home, kitchen splashbacks, which must be easy to clean frequently, can now, with Ecosat Screen, become convenient surfaces for writing notes or messages on the fly;
• at work and at school, interactive whiteboards (IWB) and walls for writing on that can be wiped perfectly clean.

And in offices it’s also a perfect privacy glass where needed: from close up it looks almost transparent, whereas from a distance it is an effective screen.

Vanity tops. Glass model: Ecosat Screen, 10 mm extra-clear, tempered, back-enamelled with a marble effect (Touch the Stone, by Glassfer). Its smooth and brilliant surface has very high certified resistance to scratches and stains.

Vanity tops. Glass model: Ecosat Screen, 10 mm extra-clear, tempered, back-enamelled with a marble effect (Touch the Stone, by Glassfer).

 

It’s called Ecosat Screen, coming in plates measuring 2250/2400 x 3210 mm, and it’s a special new satin-finish glass that can undergo all the thermal and mechanical processes for flat glass. Of these, the most interesting is a combination of digital printing and bending, which together can produce glass with a new identity and capable of faithfully simulating other materials, even surpassing their technical possibilities. For example, this combination can be used to replicate the effect of sinuous marble, almost a “veil of marble”, 4 mm thick, which would be difficult to achieve with marble itself (currently in trend). The photographic reproduction with digital printing, on the shiny side of the glass, is enhanced on the other side by Ecosat Screen’s satin-finish surface, which softens the cold brilliance of the glass.

The spread of digital printing on glass.

No longer the exclusive domain of the graphics industry, digital printing is becoming increasingly common in many sectors and is chosen by glass transformers because it can faultlessly reproduce any image thanks to an extremely wide range of colours and high level definition. It is thus becoming possible to personalize glass. Two types of printing are used here:

• Cold. The more widespread of the two, this process prints on already tempered glass intended exclusively for installation in interiors.

• Hot. For external applications, the glass must be enamelled. Basically, colour is digitally printed, “hot”, using ceramic paints that are vitrified with the base float due to the high temperatures reached during the tempering process (640° C). Colours thus become resistant to UV light (sunlight), high and low temperatures and very high levels of humidity. This process makes the glass scratch-proof and above all unalterable in terms of colour rendering and therefore ideal for external applications such as façades and parapets or in very humid places like spas and wellness facilities, boats and similar. Hot digital printing systems are only used by the more specialized glass transformers.

Ecosat Screen. Not only digital printing.

The innovative Ecosat Screen satin-finish glass also lends itself to more traditional printing methods, such as silkscreen printing, this too always on the shiny side. The other side is finely satinized, pleasant to the touch and easy to clean. Its certified scratch resistance makes it ideal for work tops on which metal objects in daily use (knives, scissors, pens, etc.) may cause abrasions. Further, Ecosat Screen provides a perfect surface for writing: certified against stains, even the most difficult to remove (such as felt-tip pen ink for whiteboards), it can be wiped perfectly clean without absorbing the slightest trace.
Such qualities make it valuable for both work tops, tables and other horizontal surfaces and wall installations. Regarding the latter, here are two interesting applications:

• in the home, kitchen splashbacks, which must be easy to clean frequently, can now, with Ecosat Screen, become convenient surfaces for writing notes or messages on the fly;
• at work and at school, interactive whiteboards (IWB) and walls for writing on that can be wiped perfectly clean.

And in offices it’s also a perfect privacy glass where needed: from close up it looks almost transparent, whereas from a distance it is an effective screen.

Vanity tops. Glass model: Ecosat Screen, 10 mm extra-clear, tempered, back-enamelled with a marble effect (Touch the Stone, by Glassfer). Its smooth and brilliant surface has very high certified resistance to scratches and stains.

Vanity tops. Glass model: Ecosat Screen, 10 mm extra-clear, tempered, back-enamelled with a marble effect (Touch the Stone, by Glassfer).