Boldly Forward!

It’s the new year, and I think there’s no better time than to aggressively build on what’s proven to work best. ?For us, one of those practices is the tremendous advantage we provide our customers by having our own engineering design team in house.

Over the past several decades, Glass + Metal Craft has invested significantly in top-drawer engineering talent that has proven capable of delivering remarkably forward-thinking products.

The latest is our Pre-Engineered MURUS? Type III Glass Structural Wall.? Given initial feedback from the architectural audiences that have previewed it, we think it’s going to be an industry home run.

The Murus Type III is up to a 230” tall structure wall with no horizontal seams, no point-support hardware, and no shelves.? Instead, the glass, which can be insulated or monolithic laminated, is structurally glazed (with silicone) to glass fins that rest in place using minimal “fin boat” hardware.?

The glass options are nearly endless.? You can customize it with or without low-e coatings, add silkscreen decorations, and a variety of glass substrates – from low-iron to tints – can be frosted or even painted.

However, the real game-changing element is the door “portal”, which is ultra slim and features a unique fin mounted header that both houses the door opening hardware as well as provides support for the transom glass that sits above the opening.?

The door jamb itself is minimalistic, and with stainless or painted cladding that covers less than 3.5” of glass area, the end result is minimized hardware that maximizes views.

Of course, we can further customize the entrance by turning it into a vestibule – which is a particular strength of our engineering team and a point of focus for us this year and going forward.

When you have talent in hand, and years of experience to support its vision, well, as Captain Kirk would say, we are primed to boldly go?where no man (or company in our industry) has gone before!