Float-glass producer Stewart Engineers is opening a photo voltaic glass manufacturing facility in Ohio and expects manufacturing to start in March 2026. The brand new firm division Stewart Glass is understanding of a 267,000-ft2 facility in Logan, Ohio, about an hour southeast of Columbus.
Stewart Glass in Logan, Ohio
Stewart Glass will make two sorts of 3.2-mm low-iron rolled photo voltaic glass, one with anti-reflective coatings for the entrance and one for the bottom with out anti-reflective properties.
The corporate will first start producing front-pane glass in March after which will equip the location with a second line in June to make back-pane glass.
Stewart Glass estimates that the Ohio web site will manufacture sufficient entrance glass to produce 6,500 photo voltaic panels yearly (conservatively utilizing 400-W panels, that might equate to 2.6 GW of photo voltaic panels yearly).
Stewart Engineers was based in 1986 and holds experience in float bathtub expertise. Headquartered in North Carolina, the corporate units up glass manufacturing amenities throughout the globe. The Ohio plant seems to be the corporate’s first solar-focused endeavor.
