Global TV Audience Gained OptiView of the Olympics

Did you catch any of the Olympics from Beijing? A specialty glass played its role in the coverage.

Pilkington OptiView anti-reflective glass, manufactured by Pilkington Building Products North America (BPNA), helped ensure that TV viewers around the world got a clear view.

Broadcasters from around the world covered the Olympic Games from purpose-built studios in the Ling Long Pagoda broadcasting tower, near the Bird's Nest Stadium. The tower, which stands 128 meters tall with seven floors, has an astonishing three-dimensional shape of a triangular prism of vertical transparent glass.

BPNA supplied several containers of OptiView for use in the broadcast booths of all the global TV networks at the Olympics. The Ling Long tower had one elevation completely glazed with OptiView to eliminate interior reflections while broadcasting from the networks' booths.

The Pilkington OptiView glass was made at the company's float glass plant in Ottawa, Ill., and sold through Dawson International, its agent in China.

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