Acorn Glass & Secondary Glazing

The Acorn Glass & Glazing Story

The AG&G story is one of on-going evolution and of vision. From the very beginning in the Late 1980′s the ground rules for the company were established to provide your industry with the best secondary glazing system that you could find. It’s a testimony to our founding ideas that over the years, AG&G has grown from a small manufacturing company of secondary glazing systems and window and door products with 25 years of continues trading to a well-established company to date. No wonder that our systems are used in Wales prestigious locations such as Caldicot castle, Newport Civic Centre and Cardiff Museum the old welsh office building and many other fine buildings that are our heritage. As we moved into a new century however, our aims remain the same, to make sure that you are provided with a product that should never fail you.

The Acorn Glass & Glazing Range

The exclusive AG&G range of secondary glazing is supplied fully assembled and comprises an aluminium outer frame surround which can be fixed reveal or faced fixed this allows for a neat, unobtrusive installation even in the most difficult situations. A range of hardwood sub-frames and scribing trims can be used to assist face fixing, reveal fixing and the coupling of units. This allows the satisfactory refurbishment of our largest primary windows. Suitable for all types of premises including grade one and two listed buildings, schools, colleges, hospitals, universities, hotels and commercial buildings i.e. offices.

The Acorn Glass & Glazing System

Better by Design: – We have a comprehensive range of styles to suit just about every application, including Horizontal Sliders, Hinged Units, Fixed and Lift-Out Units, Vertical Sliders as well as Balanced Vertical Sliders and Tilt-in Balanced Vertical Sliders. We can supply frames in white, silver or brown as standard and can accommodate any R.A.L. colour upon request to suit individual requirements. We can also provide a wide range of glass types such as clear, patterned, toughened, laminated and acoustic. Whatever your requirements you can trust it to AG&G.

 Insulation Efficiency

The AG&G range of secondary glazing is renowned for its thermal efficiency. Varying degrees of improved thermal insulation can be achieved by using such glasses as Pilkington K and Low E. If glass is thermally at risk then care must be taken to specify toughened glass. The harmful effects of ultra violet radiation can also be reduced whilst letting in solar heat. In addition specialist films can be adhered to the glass to further increase thermal insulation whilst adding to the security of the product and the premises.

Noise Reduction

Acorn Glass & Glazing systems have been tested for sound reduction at the AIRO Acoustics Laboratory ( an accredited NAMAS Testing lab, number 0483 ) in accordance with BS2750: part 3 and BS5821: part 3 1980 : 1984, using a purpose built sound transmission suite. These tests were carried out in November 1997 as part of AG&G on-going research and development programme.

The Acorn Glass & Glazing Commitment to Quality

At AG&G we use BS5750 part 2: 1987 as a foundation on which to build a genuine quality control programme, implemented to control customer supplied designs:

• We ensure that a weekly production / quality control meeting is held to co-ordinate the differing aspects of sales, production, quality and despatch.
• We personally check all calibrated equipment monthly and make all necessary adjustments.
• Monitoring of the critical parameters is carried out by our skilled craftsmen during all stages of fabrication.
• This system has been implemented by ourselves since early2005. Furthermore, we feel that because of our continual attention to maintain and improve standards, the quality of the products we supply exceed the industry norm.