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Gira's new plant in Germany: reinterpreting factory design with laminated glass

The Gira factory: laminated glass is used to provide workplaces of equally high standards for production and administration alike.

The new plant of electronics manufacturer Gira Giersiepen GmbH of Radevormwald, Germany uses laminated glass with Butacite® PVB interlayer to interpret factory construction in a new way – both in terms of technology and design and also with regard to creating a wonderfully pleasant and light-filled environment for office employees and blue-collar workers alike...

Nothing could be further from the industrial revolution’s "dark satanic mills" (according to the poet William Blake’s description) than the luminous and gentle Gira factory, completed in August 2002 by architects Ingenhoven Overdiek Architekten of Duesseldorf, Germany...

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