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Unlock New Opportunities for Your Smart Glass Solutions with PowerLink from Quanex

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Quanex is excited to introduce PowerLink—a concealed hinged wiring conduit from AmesburyTruth that opens the door to a new category of applications for your smart glass technologies.

Until now, advanced glass solutions like electrochromic tinting, switchable privacy, and integrated solar technologies have been limited to fixed window applications. PowerLink changes that.

PowerLink enables power transfer to operable windows, including casements and awnings, allowing window manufacturers to integrate your smart glass into functional openings for egress or ventilation—such as bedrooms and bathrooms.

  • Works with standard window hardware for seamless integration
  • Protects wiring from damage and environmental exposure
  • Supports factory-installed configurations by window manufacturers
  • Delivers reliable, hard-wired power for high-demand smart glass functions

By partnering with window and door manufacturers using PowerLink, you can expand your market and bring your advanced glass technologies to a broader range of residential and commercial applications. PowerLink gives your smart glass a new way in. To learn more or discuss compatibility, contact Quanex today.

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Q-railing - North America Railing Solutions

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Q-railing - North America designs railing systems and embodies engineering excellence. We provide technical services to reduce your risk and make your life easier; including shop drawings, building integration details and calculations; supplemented by product testing, prescriptive engineering documentation, ICC-ESR reports and Miami Dade NOA certifications.

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Q-railing - North America Railing Solutions

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Q-railing - North America designs railing systems and embodies engineering excellence. We provide technical services to reduce your risk and make your life easier; including shop drawings, building integration details and calculations; supplemented by product testing, prescriptive engineering documentation, ICC-ESR reports and Miami Dade NOA certifications.

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Q-railing - North America Railing Solutions

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Q-railing - North America designs railing systems and embodies engineering excellence. We provide technical services to reduce your risk and make your life easier; including shop drawings, building integration details and calculations; supplemented by product testing, prescriptive engineering documentation, ICC-ESR reports and Miami Dade NOA certifications.

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Fire-Rated Glazing Assemblies Modernize Academic and Social Hub

Designed to foster collaboration, study, and community, the Alan Magee Scaife Hall at the University of Pittsburgh features open, light-filled spaces—even in transitional areas like stairwells. To support this vision, the design team selected the Fireframes ClearView® System which incorporates butt-glazed Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated transparent wall panels with a Fireframes® Heat Barrier Series perimeter frame.  The result? A visually connected environment with enhanced daylighting and transparency, all while meeting stringent fire and life safety codes.

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Fire-Rated Glazing Assemblies Modernize Academic and Social Hub

Designed to foster collaboration, study, and community, the Alan Magee Scaife Hall at the University of Pittsburgh features open, light-filled spaces—even in transitional areas like stairwells. To support this vision, the design team selected the Fireframes ClearView® System which incorporates butt-glazed Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated transparent wall panels with a Fireframes® Heat Barrier Series perimeter frame.  The result? A visually connected environment with enhanced daylighting and transparency, all while meeting stringent fire and life safety codes.

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Fire-Rated Glazing Assemblies Modernize Academic and Social Hub

Designed to foster collaboration, study, and community, the Alan Magee Scaife Hall at the University of Pittsburgh features open, light-filled spaces—even in transitional areas like stairwells. To support this vision, the design team selected the Fireframes ClearView® System which incorporates butt-glazed Pilkington Pyrostop® fire-rated transparent wall panels with a Fireframes® Heat Barrier Series perimeter frame.  The result? A visually connected environment with enhanced daylighting and transparency, all while meeting stringent fire and life safety codes.

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Storefront Systems Built for the Way You Work

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From education and mixed-use to retail retrofits, the enhanced Series 3000 XT and 6000 XT storefront systems from Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope are engineered for performance-driven projects that demand more -- without requiring more from the installer. 

These upgraded thermal storefront systems deliver up to 25% better thermal performance over standard double-glazed storefronts, achieving U-factors as low as 0.20 using thin triple IGUs -- all while maintaining a standard 1" glazing pocket. 

With familiar center-set glazing, shear block or screw spline assembly, and a high-performance sill receptor, they install like the systems you already know. Available in two depths to fit project needs, the 3000XT (2" x 4-1/2") and 6000XT (2" x 6") offer a smarter path to meeting today’s energy codes -- with no extra steps on the jobsite. 

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Storefront Systems Built for the Way You Work

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From education and mixed-use to retail retrofits, the enhanced Series 3000 XT and 6000 XT storefront systems from Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope are engineered for performance-driven projects that demand more -- without requiring more from the installer. 

These upgraded thermal storefront systems deliver up to 25% better thermal performance over standard double-glazed storefronts, achieving U-factors as low as 0.20 using thin triple IGUs -- all while maintaining a standard 1" glazing pocket. 

With familiar center-set glazing, shear block or screw spline assembly, and a high-performance sill receptor, they install like the systems you already know. Available in two depths to fit project needs, the 3000XT (2" x 4-1/2") and 6000XT (2" x 6") offer a smarter path to meeting today’s energy codes -- with no extra steps on the jobsite. 

Read more HERE

Storefront Systems Built for the Way You Work

ADVERTISEMENT

From education and mixed-use to retail retrofits, the enhanced Series 3000 XT and 6000 XT storefront systems from Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope are engineered for performance-driven projects that demand more -- without requiring more from the installer. 

These upgraded thermal storefront systems deliver up to 25% better thermal performance over standard double-glazed storefronts, achieving U-factors as low as 0.20 using thin triple IGUs -- all while maintaining a standard 1" glazing pocket. 

With familiar center-set glazing, shear block or screw spline assembly, and a high-performance sill receptor, they install like the systems you already know. Available in two depths to fit project needs, the 3000XT (2" x 4-1/2") and 6000XT (2" x 6") offer a smarter path to meeting today’s energy codes -- with no extra steps on the jobsite. 

Read more HERE