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Jason Sim
Business Development
Manager house applications, more aluminum or silver coat-
DirACT Glass sunlight passing through MIRROR, MIRROR ing on the rear surface of
ON THE WALL
equals more solar energy the glass which reflects our
being stored and so every Back in the 1660s, mir- image back through to us.
photon of light counts. Ac- rors were considered much Mirrors now adorn many
89% while low-iron glass cording to Jim Koster of prized items reserved only walls in our buildings cre-
which was developed in JTB Glass, growers in Eu- for royalty and the wealthy ating’ interior space. Paul
1987 for the pyramid in rope are looking for good elite. It was forbidden Goudeau from Saint Gob-
Louvre’s court yard has an quality low-iron glass with for any Venetian mirror ain, a glass company that
improved VLT of 91% and an anti-reflective coating artisan to practice their recently celebrated more
above, and also removes that allows 97% of vis- art outside Venice, the than 350 years of making
the green/blue hue that ible light through, thus first mirror capital of the mirrors, said that his com-
comes with normal glass. increasing the productivity world. Today mass pro- pany is currently develop-
In commercial green- of the crops. duction mirrors have an ing a mirror that brings

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