Anniversary of Spokane City Hall Signifies Key Milestone in the Green Building Industry and Highlights Company’s Long-Standing Contribution to High Performance Glazing PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southwall Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:SWTX), the worldwide innovator of energy-saving films and glass products, today celebrates the 30-year anniversary of the world’s first high performance glass installation, the City Hall in Spokane, Washington. Utilizing Southwall’s Heat Mirror® insulating glass - the world’s first commercially produced low-emissivity, or low-e, glass product - Spokane City Hall has delivered significant energy savings over the past three decades. This underscores the company’s field-proven product durability and its pioneering role in improving the energy efficiency of residential and commercial glazing. Southwall’s Heat Mirror technology - in which one or more lightweight Heat Mirror films are suspended within an insulating glass unit to create multiple insulating cavities - was the first major breakthrough in insulating glass performance in over 100 years, an innovation chosen by Popular Science as one of the Top 100 Products of the Millennium. Utilizing a high performance suspended film with an advanced low-e coating that reflects heat back to its source, Heat Mirror insulating glass enables buildings like Spokane City Hall to realize superior insulation and solar control, lowering a home or building’s carbon footprint while decreasing cooling and heating expenses by up to 30 percent.
