ORAÉ®

COOL-LITE® XTREME ORAÉ® provides the best of both embodied and operational carbon levels, thanks to:

• The exceptionally low carbon footprint of ORAÉ®, produced by combining high recycled glass content (64% according to ISO 14021:1999) and renewable electricity. As a result, the new product offers the world's first low carbon glass ORAÉ® on the market, combined with the best in class coatings, with a reduction of 42% compared to our regular product.
• The excellent energy performances of the COOL-LITE® XTREME coatings, which already drastically reduce carbon emissions generated by energy consumption, when using the building thanks to its high performance in terms of daylight intake, solar control and thermal insulation.

Cradle to Cradle Certified® version 4.0 certification

COOL-LITE® ORAÉ® is Cradle to Cradle Certified® Bronze. Cradle to Cradle Certified® V4.0 assesses products based on five rigorous categories: material health, product circularity, climate air & climate protection, water & soil stewardship, and social fairness. 

As part of achieving certification, it received a Platinum rating for Product circularity thanks to its high recycled glass content.

ORAÉ® is offering exactly the same aesthetics than the regular clear float glass PLANICLEAR®.

Combined with COOL-LITE® XTREME, the low external reflection as well as the extremely colour-neutral external appearance creates an excellent combination of function and aesthetics.

REFERENCE PROJECTS

As an early demonstration of the market’s enthusiasm, four major real estate partners, Bouygues Immobilier, Icade Santé, Nexity and NCC have already committed to use low carbon COOL-LITE® XTREME glass in their projects:

• Bouygues Immobilier will implement it on its office building operation Kalifornia (Hauts-de-Seine, France)

• Icade Santé will install it on the Elsan Group Polyclinique du Parc in Caen (Calvados, France) 

• Nexity will use it on the Carré Invalides rehabilitation (Paris, France)

• NCC chose it for a new office project Habitat 7 (Gothenburg, Sweden)

COOL-LITE® XTREME ORAÉ® is available in standard sizes and thicknesses (4, 6, 8 and 10mm).

In complementarity to COOL-LITE® XTREME ORAÉ® assembled in double or triple glazing, the uncoated ORAÉ® as well as our low-e PLANITHERM® ORAÉ® and ECLAZ® ORAÉ® are also available for the counter panes.

COOL-LITE® XTREME ORAÉ® provides the same performances and quality as COOL-LITE® XTREME PLANICLEAR®, with a much lower carbon footprint.

According to the verified EPD published in april 2023, the ORAÉ® substrate has a carbon footprint of only 6.64 kg CO2 eq./m2 (for a 4mm substrate), a reduction of 42% compared to our European standard product PLANICLEAR®.

Coated, processed and assembled in insulated glazing unit, the reduction is then around 30% to 40%.

According to EN673

According to EN410

Global Warming Potential (GWP A1-A3 stages) values with PLANICLEAR® and ORAÉ® are calculations made with Calumen® for each composition of IGU on the basis of the standard EN 15804+A2. Detailed environmental data are documented in the available Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) of PLANICLEAR® and ORAÉ®.

All panes of the DGU with the same substrate; first pane respectively annealed or tempered (II) with the same glass compositions; counter panes always annealed.