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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

English Heritage is launching a survey to help protect official conservation areas, and one of its targets is the replacement of wooden sash windows with a "plague of plastic ones". So is it wrong to ...