The national speed skating Hall of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, also known as the “ice ribbon”, is named for its complex curved screen wall. The silver curved arc insulating glass and laminated glass lamp belt are combined like a circle of “ice ribbon”. After the night scene lighting system is turned on, it is colorful and light, like a ribbon man dance.
“\’ice ribbon \’3360 curved glass, produced in Tianjin…” the news came yesterday. The reporter found the manufacturer of these curved glass in Baodi district energy conservation and environmental protection industrial zone, Tianjin Beibo Glass Industry Technology Co., Ltd.
“The design concept of \’ice ribbon\’ comes from the creativity of the combination of ice and speed. The whole building facade has smooth lines and dynamic shapes, which reflects the speed and passion of ice sports. It echoes with the \’bird’s nest\’ and \’Water Cube\’, forming a harmonious contrast between \’water\’, \’fire\’ and \’ice\’.” Yang Yuanxi, deputy general manager of Tianjin North glass company, told reporters.
Gao Pan, director of the Technology Department of the company, introduced that the 3360 curved curtain wall glass provided by the company to the national speed skating hall adopts semi tempered double ultra white double silver low radiation double laminated insulating glass, while the 22 “ice ribbon” that makes the building shine at night consists of 1738 special-shaped small radius curved semi steel laminated glass.
“The length of this small radius is only 175mm. In order to find a processing plant that can make this specification of glass, the designer searched all over the country and got the reply that only hot bending can be done. Our enterprise took over this task, which can be said to achieve something that can not be achieved in the whole industry, made tempered laminated glass and achieved an innovation.” Gaopan introduction.
In order to solve the problem of special-shaped small radius arc glass tempering, the company independently designed the tempering equipment, developed the small radius tempering process through continuous tests, measured and analyzed item by item in strict accordance with the 27 inspection indexes required by the industry specifications and the glass appearance quality requirements, and finally decided to adopt the specification with a radius of 175mm.
“With the completion of the \’ice ribbon\’, the glass of Tianjin North glass has been inlaid on the \’bird’s nest\’, \’Water Cube\’, \’ice ribbon\’ and the \’three major Olympic pieces\’, which is the pride of all our staff. If we say that the Beijing Winter Olympic Games will be held,\’ the historical games will engrave this pen \’, then we have participated in it.” Yang Yuanxi said.
Walking in the production workshop of Tianjin North glass, there are all kinds of toughening production lines, sandwich production lines, hollow production lines and homogenizing furnaces in front of us. The largest original glass sheet is as high as 23 meters and operates in an orderly manner under the control of modern processing equipment.
“See this glass? It’s specially made for Nike stores; it’s customized for customers in Australia; we are one of Apple’s two key glass suppliers, supplying glass inside and outside Apple stores for more than 100 Apple stores around the world.” Yang Yuanxi, who accompanied the reporter through the modern workshop, spoke with full pride. When he learned from him that the National Grand Theatre, Beijing Daxing airport, Shanghai library, Tianjin Julia conservatory, Gucci store in Ginza, Japan, Berlin new The National Gallery, Manchester City Hall in England, Oracle headquarters in Texas in the United States, etc. all the tall curtain wall glasses used for construction were “made in Tianjin”, Pride and pride also infected reporters.
\u3000\u3000 “Our annual output value is more than 500 million yuan, half of which are sold overseas. That is to say, the super large and super long production technology of the glass installed in the” glass spaceship “project of Apple’s headquarters in the United States has reached the world’s top level. Moreover, its surface is coated with a double-layer low radiation film, which can reduce the surface emissivity of the glass, inhibit harmful ultraviolet rays, and make visible light more effectively pass through the film system and glass Add energy conservation and environmental protection. ” Yang Yuanxi said.
Tianjin North glass is a holding subsidiary of the listed company Luoyang Luoyang Northglass Technology Co.Ltd(002613) , which was established in 2013. Yesterday, the news of “ice ribbon” glass made in Tianjin came, and Luoyang Northglass Technology Co.Ltd(002613) in the A-share market rushed up the limit.
(source: Tianjin daily)
