Foamed Glass: Technological Realities and the Market

The development of foamed glass technology is discussed in the article. It is shown that the gap between scientific developments and the practice of foamed glass manufacture, as a building material, has the principal character that does not allow, in the foreseeable future, to hope for the development of foamed glass manufacture technologies as well as organization of enterprises which are able to produce the competitive material in the field of industrial and civil construction. The market non-competitiveness of foamed glass produced according to the classical powder technology from the special glass is substantiated. Assumptions about technical solutions and technology trends that will make it possible to produce the material in demand at the building materials market are made.

A.A. KETOV¹, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
A.V. TOLMACHEV², Candidate of Sciences (Engineering)

¹ Perm National Research Polytechnic University (29, Komsomol’skii Avenue, Perm, 614990, Russian Federation)
² OOO “TeploStek” (46, Varshavskoe Highway, Moscow, 115230, Russian Federation)

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