The power of plastic to cut weight and boost design flexibility has some suppliers touting the material as a clear alternative to automotive glass. Specially coated polycarbonate already is used for ...

Plastic glazing finally looks promising Although the idea of replacing glass with lighter weight plastic sounds like an obvious innovation, it is not new. For over thirty years, auto glass experts ...

Kurt Ernst February 7, 2013 Comment Now! If you wear glasses to correct your vision, chances are good you already know the benefits of polycarbonate lenses over glass ones. Not only are polycarbonate ...

TOKYO (July 27, 12:15 p.m. ET) — Automaker PSA Peugeot-Citroën is using polycarbonate from Japan's Teijin Chemicals Ltd. for plastic window glazing in its new Citroën DS5, as part of what Teijin said ...

Bullet-resistant car windows look deceptively ordinary, yet every pane is a small engineering project built to catch and slow ...

A newly tooled Budd dome coach is now available in N scale from RailSmith Models. The injection-molded plastic lightweight car features tinted dome window glazing, metal wheel stubs mounted on plastic ...

In 1909 Henry Ford offered his Model T with a windshield as an option. Nowadays, the windscreen does far more than protect the car occupants from the wind while on the move. Like so many other parts ...

Vacuum glazing – sometimes referred to as vacuum double glazing – uses a sealed vacuum between two panes of glass instead of the argon or other inert gases found in standard double glazing. With no ...